Terraforming Mars: How To Do It

By: Tsegazeab Beteselassie



Mars: This is The Red Planet.*
This picture is from:zonters.com 

     The world has about 6 billion people. And counting. In about 58 years, the world population will double. And eventually, we will run out of room. So how can we solve this problem? Well, I have thought of a solution. We need a new Earth.

    "Where in the world  space can we get a new earth!?" Well, the answer is right next door (and I am not talking about your neighbor!). Venus and Mars. But which planet can even sustain life? No one wants to live in...
 

-A, a planet with so much pressure and heat that it can cook a pancake while squashing the oven.

-or B, a freezing cold desert with sandstorms that can swallow the planet whole.

-and guess what! The first planet (Venus) has poisonous air (nitrogen and carbon monoxide), while the other planet (Mars) has no air at all.

So which one can we live in? Well, the answer is none. Neither can sustain life for more than a few minutes. So we will have to Terraform (meaning: to change a planet into an earth like place) one of the planets. But not Venus, at least not without a giant hair drier to blow the poisonous gases away. So it will have to be Mars .

Faster Than Light: Can We Do It?

By: Tsegazeab Beteselassie
   

Faster than light: This is a picture of a space pod going faster than light.
Picture from:motls.blogspot.com 

    In everyday life, we have almost no need of going  1/5,000 the speed of light, let alone faster than it. Even in space, the fastest spacecraft, New Horizons, can't go even 1/500 the speed of light(56,000 miles per hour). However, scientists are thinking of space travel into other star systems, because Earth is sustaining more and more people, and eventually, we will run out of room. We could always just build more and more International Space Stations (ISS), but...

- first, it's costly.

- second, it takes a long time to make one.

-and third, we will eventually run out of materials for the ISS.

The good news is that this problem can be solved. How? Read on to find out.

Time travel: Stopping Time

By: Tsegazeab Beteselassie

"How can we stop time?" Physicists have wondered this for a long time. I have figured out a possible solution to stop time. Of course, it is theoretical and may not work. But it's worth a shot. Read the next paragraph to see my idea about stopping time.

Stopping time: This is a picture of a man stopping time.
Link:www.dreamstime.com 

   Absolute zero is the temperature that atoms stop moving around. 

"How cold is Absolute zero?" It is

 -459.67 degrees Fahrenheit. What does Absolute zero have to do with stopping time?"  Well, the answer is EVERYTHING. "How?"  If you put something in a freezer that is -459.67 degrees Fahrenheit (absolute zero), it's atoms will stop moving from the cold. Technically, even if it the thing is alive, it won't be able to move. So it is in a preserved state where even the atoms stop moving. If we can spread this coldness, we can freeze time. "But how will you spread the cold into a large region?*"

     If we want to stop time, we will need a portable device (when I say portable, I mean a six by four inches long remote) that stops time using absolute zero. "What is an ideal shape that can stop time most easily?" Simple.