NASA – Breathing Moonrocks

NASA – Breathing Moonrocks

Science@NASA最近都在介紹如何在月球上生活,因應最近決定要在2020以前將太空人送上月球的計畫,和「To Inspire next generation of explorers1」。

這篇文在介紹如何用熱解(pyrolysis)的方式把月面岩石的二氧化矽(SiO2)、氧化鈣(CaO;生石灰)等的氧原子解析出來來供應太空人的氧氣。使用的裝置很簡單;把沙子放進耐熱的盒子,抽真空(在月球上不用),用一面聚光透鏡把盒子加熱到2500°C,再把氣體抽出來就好了。

令我震驚的是文中所謂的殘渣(slag) — 你去看就會發現了 — 那團黑黑的東西明明就是火山玻璃/原始人工玻璃嘛。所以太空人為了要呼吸+製造建造基地的磚塊,要在月球上做古羅馬人做的事情2呀XD。

1* 這是NASA的宗旨的其中一項。
2* 請看Wikipedia: Glass: History of Glass

Weblog to CMS

Photo Matt » Weblog to CMS,原文是From Weblog to CMS with WordPress

文章的大意是說它怎麼改了佈景主題和首頁(寫了一個home.php把原來的blog首頁 —— 顯示*篇最近文章 —— 換成 static page)把Weblog程式當CMS(=網站內容管理)用。它的修改很少,只是要showWordPress當CMS用的idea而已。

WordPress,不但是個優秀的blog程式,也是個優秀的CMS程式啊(茶)。

看到這篇文章的時候想到緩慢進行的新版松山高中網站計畫(倒),現在正在做點idea的testing和決定前台到底是改theme、加上Widgets Plugins就好了(首頁是需要顯示最近幾篇公告反而不用幹掉blog首頁),還是整個全部重寫(說不定還比較快)。

突然懶惰了;要是我另外一個打工寫的網站也用WordPress當CMS直接改theme就好了XD。下星期要出prototype,有deadline的東西做起來特別沒有靈感…

還是不要拿快樂的事當飯吃好了。

週記

It has been a long week; my mid-term is finally, finally over. But the bad feeling comes with this is that I can’t sure what I work for will transform to scores on exam sheet.

I have no proof that I am right. Math is still a big big thing for me to overcome, and when I take the exam today seeing (almost) everyone is writing formulas on the desk before exam starts, the same old feeling of “You can’t proof cheating is a bad thing to do, because they passed and you didn’t” goes right back again.


Whatever. Also, for the past seven days, I find a very simple but important way to stop me from distracting when I studying: simply disconnect the Ethernet cable.

Disconnected

I made the animation for the break-through I did this exam-time.

Notebook helps, really. With a pencil, the classic method is most effective on recording any thoughts pops up when one suppose studying something. Don’t ask me why, most of the good ideas I had was during the exam time, and in previous exams I usually realise them in study times.

Try to clean up my to-do-stock this week then.