The Best and Worst Selling Cars

The Best and Worst Selling Cars

In a year when gas prices topped $4 a gallon and automakers ran to Congress seeking a $25 billion bailout, one would assume that low-margin, fuel-guzzlers. Indeed, sevenof the 10 best-selling vehicles so far this year are small cars or sedans that get high gas mileage. But when gas prices go up and the economy heads south,"buyers shift.....from what they want to what they need," says Jeff Bartlett.The F-150 attracted 473,933 buyers this year, making it the No. 1-selling vehicle for 2008--it's been the best-selling vehicle in America for 27 years running.

Mount Everest

Mount Everest

Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth. It is located in China and India. It is also called the Sagarmatha or Chomolunga. Do you Think Mountains Grow?? Well Mount Everest grows a quater of an inch every year.The mountain, which is part of the Himalaya range in High Asia, is located on the border between Sagamartha Zone, Nepal, and Tibet, China. The highest mountain in the world attracts climbers of all levels, from well experienced mountaineers to novice climbers willing to pay substantial sums to professional mountain guides to complete a successful climb. The mountain, while not posing substantial technical climbing difficulty on the standard route. When i grow up i will love to go climb Mount Everest.

December 17, 1903

The First Flight

On this date Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina. the flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. Three more flights were made that day with Orville's brother Wilbur piloting the record flight lasting 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet.

NASA Space Shuttle

NASA Space Shuttle

The NASA space shuttle is white and big. They landed in California because there was cold weather and they were repairing and upgrading the international space station. The shuttle program's 124th misssion remodeled the space station, doubled its crew capacity to 6 and repaired a rotating joint on a solor wing. Endouver delivered diivered a new bathroom, kitchenette,exercise machine, two slepping quarters , and a recycling system that convertsastrounauts' urine and sweat into rinking water.

Jules the talking Robot

Jules the Talking Robot

Jules the talking robot was built by David Hanson. Jules could frown, smile and look slightly skeptical. In addition, Jules could make eye contact—of a sort. I think that this robot looks like a real person. The first time I saw him i thougt it was a human but then I read the caption and found out that it was a robot.

Dubia Mall

Dubia Mall

The Dubai mall was constructed in Dubia,United Arab Emirates by owner Emaar Properties. The Dubia Mall is the largest mall ever built on the planet. The 20-billion-dollar project has 1,200 shops, 4 times as many as the new London Westfield center.Sprawling over 12 million sq ft (example its equivalent to 50 soccer pitches) the Dubai Mall has a total floor area of 5.9 million square feet and a space of 3.77 million square feet about the same as West Edmonton Mall. I would love to go shopping here cause it seems pretty big and one of these days I will.

Freedom Ship

Freedom Ship

The freedom Ship is a floating city project initially proposed by Norman Nixon in the late 1990's. It was named freedom ship because of the "free" international lifestyle facilitated by a mobile ocean colony, through the project would not have been a conventional ship, but rather a series of linked barges. The freedom ship contains 1400m-long integrated city with condominium housing for 30,000 people , an airstrip to accommodate jet aircraft, duty- free shopping and other facilities, large enough to require rapid transit. The complex would circumnavigate the globe continously, shopping regularly agt ports of call.

millennium tower

millenium tower

The millennium tower it a tower they are going to buit in Tokio, Japan. They are building this because tokyo has the biggest population and there are lots o people who don't have a place they can live in. Another thing is that this builing is going to be twice as high as a skyscraper. They thnk that this building will risist an earthquake because of its cone shaped. I would love to live in this because incase of an earthquake nothing will happen to your house.

Terrafugia Car

Terrafugia car

The terrafugia cra is a roadable Ligh Sport Aircraft. This car brings more flexibility to your flying. You can drive to your local airport, fly up to 400nm, land, convert, and drive to your destenation . Nver let weather cancel or endanger you trip again just continue on the road and wait till the weather to clear up. I would love to hava one becase its a good way to get were ever you want to go.

Solor Energy

Solor Energy

Solor Energy is the light and radiant heat from the sun that influences Earth's climate and weather and sustains life. The earth receive 147 petawatts of solor radiation at the upper atmosphere. About 30% is transfered back to space while the rest is absorbed by clouds, oceans, and landmasses. The greenhouses convert solor light to heat letting us grow grow crops of any kind. Greenhouses were used during Roman times to produce cucumbers year round for the Roman Emperor Tiberous. They were built in the 16th century to keep exotic plants brought back from exploring different countries.

Fog Screen

Fog Screen

The fog screen is a new invention which makes objects seem to appear and move in thin air. The fog creen is a device that creates a thin smooth fog surface almost instently when it is switched on. It can be used for image projection just like a conventional screen. You can walk through this screen and not feeel anything because the water rapdly dries. You can use your finger as a stylist you can draw on it write on it and paint on it without the need of a pen or paint. I would love a fog screen to be in my house because it would be fun to have one.

computer viruses

computer viruses

A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a cmputer without permission or knowledge of the user. For instence this means that if you decide to save your work on a floppy disk, cd, or USB drive and then put it on another computer the virus can spread and it can affect both computers. There are many different kinds of viruses and some of them aren't harmful. The different kinds are virus, trojan, and eorms. In my opinion i don't like viruses even though we might have some at home that we don't even know about.

Flying Car

The flying car is a type of car that can ride on rodes,streets and then take off, fly and land like an aircraft. Some people might get stuck in traffic but if you have one of these car you can get rid of it and take off and start flying like an airplane does.The man who build the first flying car was Glen Curtiss. I would love to have a flying car because instead of driving in the streets I would fly with the new flying cars.

Smart Shirt

"The Smart Shirt is manufactured by sensatex, but was developed by theGeorgia institude ofTechnology and originally funded by the US military's 21st Century Land Warrior Program and the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency Bowie 2000. The shirt contains sensors that can be used to monitor vital signs such as heart rate, EKG, respiration, and blood pressure Tollen 2001." as said in wikipedia.

The smart shirt is a perfect solution for athletics because it can tell there heart rate, there respiration rate, body temperature, caloric burn, and provides via a wristwatch, and a PDA/smart phone.

If someone came up to me and asked me if i earned to wear one i would say yes because if i get really sick won't need to call an ambulance they will just come to me. Also because they won't need to ask me anything about my record because it will just tell them so that is why i would like to wear a smart shirt.

INTERNET SAFETY!!!!!

http://www.internetsafety.com/

§ Never give people your password over the Internet.
§ Don’t talk to people you don’t know.
§ The people you think you know them and are your friends are really not your friends.
§ Don’t ever give your personal information on any site.


www.kidshealth.com

§ The Internet is a good resource for your kids but your kids can come upon pop-ups
§ Your kids are never safe on the Internet with out supervision
§ Always be careful for what your kids are looking at while probably you are doing something that has to be done for work.

www.ikeepsafe.com

§ Teach your kids about cyber-bullies, hackers, phishers, and predators.
§ Also talk to them that the Internet is forever. Whatever they post online it will follow them to future job interviews.Some kids can get used to the Internet a lot that they will not be able to focus on their school education.

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Ummmmm.............. I'm Laura and i love to go to the mall. I love to go hang out with my friends. My best friends are (Tania, Marjorie, Jessica, Vanessa,belma and Grace, and lots more.)