Wednesday, November 21, 2007

The Smell Is the Most Important Sense - Felix Wang

You may think that smell compared to the others four senses; sight, taste, sound and touch is far less important than the the sense of smell. But you are very wrong. The human what is a human, what is it's purporse? The answer is simple to reproduce, to let the race live on. However inorder to arouse sexual desires, the smell is very important. Your spouse's natural body odor. Smells can invoke memories, sexually arouse people, or even drive you mad. Psychology professor Rachel Herz from Brown University in Rhode Island has spent 17 years studying the human sense of smell, finding it is the most emotionally evocative sense and the one most closely tied to mental health and happiness. She has commented on the fact that the front Australian rock band INXS may have been driven into deep depression after losing his sense of smell, which lead to the end of his life. Another case if of a woman who at 20 lost her sense of smell in car accident, she suffered not only depression, but also hard for her to be intimate with her husband . Taste is only bitter, salty, sour, sweet and umami or savory, all flavors come from smell, so without smell you can't taste the difference between an apple or pear. Smell is an important aspect of safety as if you can't smell gasoline or smoke you don't know when or where there is a fire and would stay in the room. With other sense you have no idea where the fire could be, if its not in opean view sight is off no use, by the time you do see it is too use less. Dogs are animals who have very limited sight as they don't see colour, however there is sense of smell is what makes them such an important roll in society. They track done drug smugglers, theifs using smell, in addtion war time dogs didn't use hearing to warn soilders in WWII, but the smell of the germans allowed them to save pointless confrontation which may have ended in the deaths of the soilders.
In a survy by 100 women, it is said that none of them would date a man that smells bad and this was ranked top among the list disregarding looks and everything else.

So what did we learn? To get a date you must smell GOOD! Now if that doesn't make it the most important, I don't know what does.

Did America Really Land on the Moon? - Felix

1)Logical consistency: Dr. David Groves is expert in photo and holigram anaylsis:
Further more he has these qulifications which I must say is supportive of his expertise.
PhD - BSc (Hons) Class I/Applied Physics.
PhD in Holographic Computer Measurement.
Chartered Physicist and a Member of the Insitute of Physics.
In addition to these the moon landings of america has been constantly accused of being faked at the start of the 21st century. Further more we are not talking about a someone does not know what he is talking about, this person is no amature, he is an expert. He was also able to gain and analyse one of the shoes of the astronoughts.
It's discovered by him from the photos that indeed there was an artificail light source, however the appo 11 did bring lights with them so where did it come from? Inaddition this scientist also manage to overthrow the view that the light came from a natural souce the sun, however as he explained on the video the brightness of the sun light reflected on the moon should be constant however, tiny rocks are not even lit and has massive shadows, proving once again that this could not have possibly been the real moon service.

2)Observational reliability I belieave this video has alot of observational reliablitity as we are shown images and evidence of what they belieave is faked on the pictures of the moon landing of apollo 11. Inaddtion to this they also give cameria views on minture made models of the apollo 11 and did tests to see if the picture matches the artfical lighting they have created on the model.

3)Awareness of value, judgments and propaganda - This maybe a british video, however briton is an ally of america and there is no need to disclaim such a unbelieavable thing in american history. However even the Americans them selves have a documentary on the apollo 11 being faked. To have so many documentaries on appollo being faked is interesting, and not only from other countries but from america itself.

4)Authority/ citation/ peer review - This video has strong and powerful authority as it is based upon the views of experts inaddtion using modern technology to analyise pictures taken. We have been show the the possible solutions that other have comed up with for faked lighting, however they have proved all them wrong now. Even using the most famous picture of the reflection in the viser they have proved that it did no come from a natural light and the camera was not in the correct position according to the picture.

5)Awareness of source, intention and audience - There is intension is to show us that through their expertise they have proved that pictures of moon landings have been staged. They may want to get fame or things by making things up however, they have gotten hold on some rare equipment like astronoughts shoes, specailzed computers that anaylize images. Like i said these people are not amatures they are expert photo analysis.

In conclusion, this video has powerful evidence and the source of which it came from is very solid. They show us pictures and solid evidence and techincal terms of techniques in photography. To sum it all up we have ask WHY HASN'T AMERICA EVER SENT ANOTHER TEAM TO THE MOON?

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Climate Change - Is it really happening? - Harvir

Watch the documentary 'The Greenhouse Conspiracy'.

Global Warming is a theory put forward by scientists that the world's temperature is rapidly increasing, because humans are not taking care of their planet. There are several reasons which suggest that global warming is infact a hoax, and that the people promoting it have different motives than just 'saving life on earth'.

Firstly, the documentary puts forward the fact that the United Nations is using Global Warming to bring together a 'World Government'.

In addition, as we all know, Africa has been undergoing massive deforestation in the past decade, in an attempt to boost its economy. As a consequence, scientists have made up the idea of climate change to prevent Africa from doing this, so that it preserves some of the few great rainforests that are left on our planet.

It's also suggested that political leaders such as Margaret Thatcher are only emphasising the importance of acting against climate change because they want to lure environmentalist and green groups on their side.

In the past, scientific groups have had tremendous difficulty in presenting ideas to the world, because they simply don't have the funding to do so. As a result, they could be using global warming in order for them to solve their financial problems, by worrying and pleading to the public for help.

In conclusion, global warming is made up by scientists because they have several motives that the general population is unware of, and they're using a made up theory (global warming), in order to meet some of these motives.

Why taste is the most important sense - Harvir

Taste is the dominant sense because without taste, our mouth wouldn't be able to extract the flavor which originates from the food we eat. Therefore, we would just be eating the food, without appreciating all the wonderful ingredients which it posesses.

In addition, without taste, it's possible that we could die. This is because if organisims don't possess a taste sense, there is a significant chance that they could die of starvation, because someone or something would simply refuse to eat, because they don't enjoy doing it.

Moreover, it's scientifically proven that when someone is not eating, they suffer from severe stress and mental problems. This could lead to depression, and in worst case scenario, suicide.

Without taste, we wouldn't know whether we liked a particular food or not. This is important because if our body doesn't like something, yet we still eat it (which we would do if we didn't have a taste sense), our body would begin to undergo all sorts of dangerous chemical reactions. Furthermore, we wouldn't know when to stop eating (because we don't know how the food tastes like), so this could cause additional harm to our health.

Why taste is the dominant sense - Harvir

Taste is the dominant sense because without taste, our mouth wouldn't be able to extract the flavor which originates from the food we eat. Therefore, we would just be eating the food, without appreciating all the wonderful ingredients which it posesses.

In addition, without taste, it's possible that we could die. This is because if organisims don't possess a taste sense, there is a significant chance that they could die of starvation, because someone or something would simply refuse to eat, because they don't enjoy doing it.

Moreover, it's scientifically proven that when someone is not eating, they suffer from severe stress and mental problems. This could lead to depression, and in worst case scenario, suicide.

Without taste, we wouldn't know whether we liked a particular food or not. This is important because if our body doesn't like something, yet we still eat it (which we would do if we didn't have a taste sense), our body would begin to undergo all sorts of dangerous chemical reactions. Furthermore, we wouldn't know when to stop eating (because we don't know how the food tastes like), so this could cause additional harm to our health.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

UFO: The Greatest Story Ever Denied - Moon Bases (Grigory)

Many may think that there is no life beyond earth and that even a theory such as this is preposterous. However, is it really true? In my knowledge claim, there has been sufficient evidence that there is indeed life out there and much closer than we expected- the moon. We have seen a number of unidentified structures on the moon, which look like some sort of ‘houses’, these realistic structures show that life is inevitable. A number of top NASA researches have studied this incredible phenomenon extensively and were bewildered by their findings. There were a number of photos taken of these objects, and only recently have they been revealed to the public. Scientists published a 50 page report explaining that they saw a few signs of life around the area of these structures.

Also ABC news (a very reliable news channel) reported on these findings to the public, saying this had been a major breakthrough in life outside the earth, this was 30 years after it was discovered, as there was a massive public cover up. It was also found that the back side of the moon was covered with a number of various shapes, some representing outlines of objects we know on earth such as cooling towers. It is obvious that there is life on the moon with such evidence provided, and that the American government covered such information up. This information was all realistic, which was picked up by special cameras both on earth in the NASA basis and on the International Space Station. In general, all this evidence presents to us that there is indeed some form of life on the moon, as the moon is still significantly unexplored and we are just starting to find such intriguing information out.

UFO: The Greatest Story Ever Denied, Moon Bases - James

In the past, people thought that there's only life on earth. From the video above, it's uncertain. In this knowledge claim video, it shows alien bases which exist on the moon. The photos taken have been blurred by American Agencies to prevent the secret from leaking, causing a public paranoia based on this. However, on many of the picures, there are still clear traces of the general shapes of the bases. This has never been spotted by us on earth before because that certain section of the moon barely ever rotates towards the earth.

Why Smell is the Dominant Sense - James

Why is the sense of smell the most dominant sense?

The sense of smell is extremely important to us because sometimes other senses such as sight and sound are limited. Cases like this could happen commonly at night. The most obvious reason people use dogs to track down drugs and explosives in airports is that dogs have a stronger sense of smell than humans. In war situations such as cases in the Second World War, the Germans couldn’t see where the Russians were but was able to track their general location through the smell of smoke.

Smell could also protect us from having to taste something before determining if it is poisonous or not. It could also let us detect the general content of anything we smell. If anything poisonous releases poisonous gas, it would be less damaging to smell than to taste it since there are more filters in our body to protect against what we inhale. Part of what we inhale is also breathed out, leaving less chance of the poison taking affect through smell. The state of gas is also the least compact compared to liquid and gas, therefore, least dangerous when inhaled.

It also helps us determine whether to eat something or not by telling us the general content of the food. Sometimes, for people who have allergies, it would also alert them to not take certain food due to detection of the content which they are allergic to.
Compared to other senses such as sight, the sense of smell covers everything around us while sight only covers 180°.

Monday, October 29, 2007

Why Vision is the best sense compared to the rest of our senses (Steven & Krisch)

First, a quick experiment: close your eyes and read what is on the board. After the experiment is conducted, we have proven that this is not possible. Without vision, we would not be able to coordinate ourselves. Although other senses could complement vision to help us coordinate ourselves, that sense alone could not guide us. With vision, we have the power to focus on direction. Without direction, there would be no such thing as exploration; everyone would be isolated to their own vicinity.

Vision is also our first warning of danger. For example, if there were someone to strike you, our vision would be the first and foremost sense to warn us, and thus we would move away.

Vision also makes it possible for us to interact with other people. For example, if someone was deaf, their vision and hand-eye coordination would enable them to use sign language to communicate

In conclusion, we have shown that vision is the most important sense in order to survive. It provides us with communication, coordination and acts as a warning for dangers and threatening situations.

Moon Landing Hoax (Steven & Krisch)

This video obviously shows that the moon landing in 1969 by the Americans was a hoax. The video shows us that a massive pole hits the actual space shuttle (which is again, a hoax). The mis en scene might demonstrate an alien surface, but as the video shows, this ‘alien area’ is obviously fictitious. Also, from the latter video, it shows us that the flag which has been planted on the move is moving. Clearly, there is no air, nor atmosphere in space. Thus, there would be no breeze on the moon; thus it is fake. Thirdly, there is about 1/6th of the gravity on the moon compared to the earth. That means that if the Americans were to be on the moon, their speed would be immensely slow and bounce would be higher because the gravitational pull wouldn’t nearly be strong enough.



Ruby's sense perception (Touch)

There are five fundamental senses humans use everyday in life - sight, sound, taste, smell and touch. I believe Touch is the most important sense of all, touch is the sense which allows yourself to connect and make contact with the outside world. Without your nervous and sensory systems, humans cannot possibly live their everyday life in a normal way.

Without touch, we can very easily get hurt. Touch, i believe, is essential to protect ourselves. Touch is the most common sense we use to confirm what we sense with our other four senses. For example, if we see a red object and was unsure of what it was, the first thing most people will do is to Touch the object and feel what it is. Touch, although is often not noticed as being important, plays an essential supplement role to our other senses.

Nick & Joe (9/11 Conspiracy Theory)



This carries on from the presentation that we recieved at the start of the year.

To summarise, the video discusses the possibilies of a plane causing the collapese of the Twin Towers. It rasies the points that the buildings were specifficaly designed to withstand multiple crashes. Furthermore, it highlights inconsistant details in videos of the plane contacting the towers such as a sudden explosion Before the plane even touches the face of the building. It goes on to to eye witness accounts of hearing multiple and systematic explosions inside the first tower after the plane struck.

Many people will question the motive of such a conspircy. The following video gives a plausable explaintion, referencing a scene from the Popular NBC show "Heros":


It shows that the government may have "Let it happen on Purpose" for their own benefit. It suggest that in such a disasterous event, when people are afraid, hopeless and terrified, they will blidly place their trust in the government, allowing them to control the public without question or resistnace.

Sight is the most important (Jungwoo Park)

I believe that sight is the most important sense out of our 5 senses. With sight, we can see everythin there is to see, we can see our surroundings and environment. Because we can see our environment, we can adapt to it. Also with sight, we can actually see whether we are in a dangerous position or place and we can escape that dangerous situation. Although we only have a nearly 180 degree vision field, we can easily fix it by turning around every now and then. With sight, we can communicate, because we can use sign language but even better, we can send letters at each other or emails. Most of the inventions today were invented because of sight, because we can see what we are going to make.
Sight is also one of the most important and biggest form of entertainment. Even the movies before 1940 (where sound movies were not made) people were still entertained because of the text it showed.

Nick' Sense Perception (Touch)

The sense of touch is referring to physical contact with the outside world through the single largest organ in our bodies – our skin and our nervous system.

I think that our sense of touch is the most important sense of all. This is because out of all the senses it is the most difficult one to fool. There are many known ways to tick our brains through our other senses- sight, sound, taste and smell. For example, photo and video editing, sound effects in movies, artificial flavouring and even artificial smells like ‘stink bombs’, perfumes or pleasant smells that some supermarkets are known to release in certain areas to attract customers.

There are very few known illusions that trick our sense of touch, even the few that exist usually only make you experience odd things such as your arms feel as though they are reaching underground. However, illusions like this, though intriguing, do not have a big impact in the way we perceive objects.

Also, in order to use our sense of touch, the object has to be up close and available for thorough inspection, unlike the sense of sight or sound which can be easily experienced through photo graphs and videos which can be altered. Touch is intimate and is a guarantee of primary information with very little probability of it being altered or distorted by anything. That is why a lot of people say they rely on ‘first hand experiences’, referring to being somewhere in person and actually physically touching it with their hands.