to go to space, teacher Christa McAuliffe, awaited the final order to launch. As thousands of children watched on television, the shuttle left the platform, and seconds later, erupted into a plume of smoke, killing all on board. Even though the explosion of The Challenger was a tragedy for America’s space program, the disaster taught NASA many new lessons, a promised a bright future for space exploration,and reinforced the importance of science and math in school. One of the first lessons learned
Around 530 million years ago, the Cambrian explosion made a significantly fast appearance of main groups of complex organism. This was confirmed by the fossil record. Along the support by an apparent diversification of various living things, including phytoplankton, calcimicrobes and also animals. 580 million years before this, most life forms were basic, made out of individual cells occasionally sorted out into colonies. The Cambrian explosion can be said to happen in waves. The initial, a co-evolutionary
Many people today can recall the moment of the Challenger disaster. Almost thirty years ago the U.S. watched in unbelief as the space shuttle Challenger exploded Seventy-three seconds after lift-off. The explosion of the space shuttle Challenger was historic but unfortunately predicted, changing the course of the U.S. Space Program. Another space shuttle that was destroyed was Columbia. The space shuttle Columbia (OV-102) was the first fleet orbiter to be delivered to Kennedy Space Center in March
POPULATION EXPLOSION INTRODUCTION: Population explosion is condition where an organisms numbers exceeds carrying capacity of its habitat.It is a curse and is damaging to the development of the country and its society.The developing countries already facing lack in their resourses,and with the rapidly increasing population,the resourses available per person ,further leading to increased poverty,malnutrition and other large population related problems. The literal meaning of population is “the
or control others. Jeffrey Pfeffer asserted that, “…Power is first control and foremost a structural phenomenon, and should be understood as such”. (pg. 65). These power dynamics were at play when the engineers were silenced before the Challenger explosion. The situation was somewhat similar during the Columbia accident. Through a force field analysis, it is easier to understand why this agency acted in such a way that they would put astronauts lives at risk. Management weighed their options, and
Bartlow Martin. Overview The title of this case study alone insinuates that perhaps this mine disaster could have been prevented. Martin opens his case study with very descriptive and gruesome details about the events that lead up to the explosion. Martin states: “One hundred and eleven men were killed in that
the RBMK’s had several reactor features that made it difficult to justify their operation. Most importantly, the reactors generated excess neutrons during operation which upon further study led to the super criticality that caused the Chernobyl explosion. While Russia suggests that the explanation of the plants failure was ultimately only due to the failure to follow safe operations of shutdown procedures, other studies performed post incident suggest that the reactors were inherently technologically
The Impact of Alcohol Port Protector Caps on Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections Central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) is the second leading cause of death from healthcare acquired infection in the US (Boubekri, 2013), contributing to a high mortality rate of 12%-25% (CDC, 2011), and they are costly to treat, averaging more than $45,000 per case (Kaler, 2014). The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) stops reimbursing providers for the care and treatment of
organisms. Scholars use this theory to explain how animals that live on Earth change over time. However, scientists find it difficult to use this theory to explain some events that occurred in the geologic time period, such as the Cambrian Explosion. The Cambrian explosion was a macro-evolutionary event that happened during the late Ediacaran and early Cambrian period. It introduced a number of phyla on the Earth, and significantly affected the animal
The Evolution of Animals Eukaryotes come in two grades of organization: single-celled (protists) and multicellular (plants, animals, and fungi). The world today is full of complex multicellular plants and animals: how, why, and when did they evolve from protists? Proterozoic Protists A single-celled eukaryote or protist can carry chlorophyll (it can be an autotrophic, photosynthetic, "alga"), it can eat other organisms (it can be an organotrophic, "protozoan" "animal"), or it may do both