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Industrial Revolution – Revolution or Evolution

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A Revolution is an action taken to change the order of things, an example being a rebellion against an existing government or authority. Real life examples would be the French Revolution and the English Revolution.

Evolution on the other hand is a natural occurrence of events or a progression of events. Progression is not necessarily rapid and could refer to natural development or it could refer to intentional development. I.E. computers have evolved a lot since the cumbersome early computers, and frankly, their still evolving.

Overall, The industrial revolution was not a Revolution at all! No one rebelled attempted to overthrow a government, so what aspect of revolution does it hold? It was without doubt an Evolution, a period of time where our technologies developed a lot.

Working with Sparki

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Sparki is a small robot that runs Arduino code, we are working on these midget-like mars rovers for science class, most people in our class are trying to make it work with a remote, but Nolan, Leslie (Lyle, we just call him Leslie) and I are working on getting our Sparki (we named him Hershel, after the recently killed off walking dead character) to move around and make decisions independently.

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I have realized what i want to do with my life

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I’ve been doing much thinking, and i think i’ve found out exactly what i want to do starting 2024. I want to join Mars One, a group going to mars to terraform and colonize the red planet.

Life itself here on earth is to monotonous and boring, but on Mars, everything would be different. I can easily live without my earth family and friends. If they ever do manage to get internet work, I will continue blogging and tell of life on Mars. Preferably I’ll do a video blog.

But I can’t apply until I’m 18, so I’ll wait, working out and getting in prime physical shape for the mission.

This Week’s project on Wattville

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This week I didn’t work on my inquiry as much as during past weeks, this week I put most of my effort into core courses, so this weeks update is pretty much nothing more than getting a bit further into the programming. I would give you closer details on the exact story line, but that would just spoil the game, so instead i’m going to finish making it and then let you go through the story yourself.

My Inquiry Progress

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My Inquiry has been coming along quite well. If you are a long-term reader you will remember that my current inquiry is me trying to program a text based game (If you don’t know what that is then Google is your friend) with a compelling story-line and well developed characters. So far i have developed the story-line and characters, but am still struggling through the programming, but my friend Nolan (nolanis.inquiryhub.org) has been helping me a lot with that. The setting of the game is as follows:

500 years into the future an apocalypse wipes out all of humanity with the exception of 43 survivors. In the years after, the 43 formed a new city, the last city. They built great metal 100 foot walls around the borders of the city. These walls had no doors, windows, or even ladders in it, the city was completely sealed off. The 43 named this great walled city “Wattville”, after their leader, Lucius Watt. Ironically enough to the city’s name, the main thing that was lost in the apocalypse was electricity, the new city was run purely by steam and coal. The second was modern fashion, Top hats and Trench Coats came back into style, yet shorts never left style and etc, causing a very strange era of style. The third thing lost was democracy, this new city was ruled in the form of an Monarchy, Lucius Watt and his descendants having ultimate power.

Eventually, after many generations all information on the apocalypse was forgotten, and only the direct descendants of Lucius Watt knew the truth about what happened. But that din’t stop anyone from honoring Lucius Watt as their savior and founder. But all was not well in this new world, Great coal mines had to be built built under the city to power the rich (who lived in the central, more luxurious part of the city)’s luxuries, such as heating and lighting, whereas the poor were left to fend for themselves in the rundown areas between the luxury areas and the wall.

Anyone who was poor hated the king by the time of King Lucius Watt XII, because of the way he and the nobles treated the poor. They treated the poor as disposable, sending them into the coal mines not expecting them all to come out, hardly giving any money to them. This caused a terrible chain reaction, The King and Nobles had servants doing everything for them, so they never paid the shopkeepers of the city any money, which caused them to go poor, so they had to raise the prices of all of their wares to afford to live, but because of the raised prices the poor couldn’t afford anything. And soon the King started taxing people, just so that he could have money to pay for all of his luxuries.

You are an poor orphan in this world, and your destiny is not written in stone.

Roundhead or Cavalier

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I have looked a lot into the history of the roundhead and cavaliers, the two sides of the English revolution, more than we had to for class, because I really enjoy that age of history, or, well, from that point through the industrial revolution. I’ve put a lot of thought into this, and I really think that I would probably end up being Cavalier, but have to say I disagree with a lot of their beliefs.  I agree with their flamboyant behavior and dress and the way they all found a way of being unique. But I must say that I really do think that they should have been more organized in their battles, instead of just randomly charging.

But I also agree that there has to be a bit of roundhead around too, for without it we would be chaotic, without the roundheads, the only rules would be made by kings, and we would not have the democracy we have today. Without that little bit of roundhead in all of us, we wouldn’t be doing our work at school, we would be all serving a king’s every will. The world would be a very different place without the roundhead’s influence, but it would also be a very different place without cavalier influence.

The roundheads had simple beliefs, that they were all equal and had to act as such. They all wore very plain black and white clothing, believing that wearing anything flamboyant would show against their beliefs. They were very organized fighters, but at home, they were the most boring people ever. They believed that any luxuries or self-indulgent behavior was bad, they didn’t dance, they didn’t drink, they didn’t listen to music, and they did away with all holidays like Christmas and Birthdays, and made it so that as soon as they had command, you weren’t legally allowed to do anything on Sundays except eat, sleep, go to church, and go to the bathroom.

On the other hand, the Cavaliers were very different. They believed in individuality and were very fond of self-indulgent behaviors. They danced, they partied, they drank, and they listened to music and made it. They celebrated holidays such as Christmas and Birthdays, and they believed that the land should be ruled by a single all powerful ruler, not a democracy voting for everything. They believed strongly in the royal system. But they fell not because of any of that, but because of their arrogance in battle. They did not fight in formations or in unison, they simply tried to kill every enemy in the battle. Period. No strategies just kill, kill, and kill. They slaughtered for quite a while but it didn’t work forever. They were no match for the roundhead’s organized, elite trained force.

Overall, I must say I’m more of a Cavalier, though there is a good amount of roundhead in me. You may see this world as being Cavalier ruled, with all of the parties, nightclubs, and overall Cavalier like lifestyles, but really, if you look closely, roundhead influence is everywhere.

Cleaning the lunchroom

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As soon as they introduced this cleaning groups thing, i had to take matters into my own hands. Out of the goodness of my heart I cleaned all of the dishes and and wiped down the kitchen. Riley helped me out too, and when we finished we made a sign saying “Please clean up after yourself” in comic sans and then wrote a version translated in to wingdings below it. We could probably do this every week, cleaning the kitchen and doing the dishes. Here’s a picture of Riley wiping the counter, i took the picture so i’m not in it, but i was the one loading the dishwasher. The fridge was open cause we were wiping it down, though even a good scrubbing with soap couldn’t get off some of the grime.

Cleaning the lunchroom

Cleaning the lunchroom

Number Palindromes

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A Palindrome is something that is the same forwards as it is backwards, such as: racecar becomes racecar when reversed. Now try doing that with a number, easy right? Well now take a normal, non palindrome number (say….31) and add it to itself reversed.

31+13=44

See, quite often you can get a palindrome when doing equations like that, but it doesn’t always work in only one equation, sometimes it takes more than one, like with 75.

75+57=132

See, not a palindrome, but, if we continue the equation;

132+231=363

There we go, a palindrome, almost all equations that are a non palindrome added to itself reversed will eventually come to a palindrome, some equations take longer than others, like 89, which requires you to do 27 equations to reach a palindrome.

89 and 98 (essentially the same thing when doing this kind of equation) are the the two numbers that i have tried that requires the most equations, but i still have MANY more to do, and, to be truthful, it really is impossible to finish all of them.

Try some yourself! See if you can find one with more equations than 89. Tell me if you can!

An Open House to Forget (or remember if you have a good memory)

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I’m very happy with the turnout of last night’s open house, most of us expected maybe 10, at most 11 possible students for next year to come to the open house, NOT 41!! But, alas, 41 was the number, and that isn’t even including the families of the candidates for next year!

Yesterday i manned the 3D printer station. Wait, Have i EVER mentioned the 3D printer on here? I don’t think i have! Okay, so at the Inquiry Hub we have a 3D printer which more than half of us know how to use. It’s not actually that hard, it just requires 3D models in GCODE format, which you can easily achieve by slicing an stl file in coordia (that probably makes no sense to most of you :b ) Then stick it on an SD card and then slide it into the 3D printer’s SD card drive, and then hit print! (Wow i’m really bad at making stuff sound easy)

So i was manning it and answering questions, but I also had one other job. Doodle3D. I had an iPad wirelessly hooked up to a little special box which is the core of Doodle3D , which was then wired to the printer. Doodle3D is a program in which there is a little box inside which you can doodle anything as long as you try to keep it all in one stroke. And then you can customize it in many of the available ways on the site, then hit print. And the 3D printer will print it out. So, as you can guess, the station where you get things you can take home for free (mine) was the most popular.

a 3D 3D made with Doodle3D

a 3D 3D made with Doodle3D