Science with Rainy

                                                                      Kepler 186f                                                                           Task: 1                         Kepler 186f is an exoplanet that orbits around Kepler 186 (red dwarf). Kepler 186f is about 500 light-years from earth. This is the first planet with a similar radius to Earth's found. Kepler 186f is in a habitable zone. This means that it is far away enough from the star that it is orbiting for water to pool on the surface much like earth. While other planets have been found in habitable zones they are all at least 40% larger than earth making it difficult for further research to be done on them. Kepler 186f is almost the same size as earth and though not much is yet known about its surface scientists have speculated that it is most likely rocky. Kepler 186f is in the Kepler 186 system which is in the constellation Cygnus about 500 light-years away from earth. This system also homes four other co

          Hello, my name is Rainy Willis. Today I am going to be telling you about the astronaut of my choice. His name is Chris Hadfield and he has always been my personal favorite. This is the shorter version of his story; from how he came from a humble corn farmer to a famous astronaut.                    Chris was born on August 29, 1959, to a humble corn farmer and his wife. He attended Milton District high school in 1977, he continued on to get a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering (with honors). Then he attended the royal military college in Kingston in 1982 as well as conducting post-graduate research at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He went on to revive a master of science in aviation systems at the University of Tennessee in 1992 that same year he was chosen to become one of the four new Canadian astronauts out of 5,330 applicants!                    You're' probably scratching your head right now thinking why in the world is she talking about spac

                                    Hello, my name is Rainy Willis and today I am going to be introducing Emilie. Emilie is the person that I chose to help me with my environmental issue which is plastic pollution in the ocean. Emilie is and has been a great help to me in helping me with my issue. She is apart of the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup so she is helping out lots on the beach cleaning up all of the garbage left there. She has also done a few tests studying and observing how the pollution levels in the water affect the fish and their behavior.                     Emilie studies and helps with the problem of pollution as I mentioned before she was and still is helping to keep the beaching near her clean and pollution-free. She has also studied something called sound pollution. Sound pollution is in places where there is lots of boat traffic. It is harmful to fish and other animals because the amount of sound causes them to be very stressed and it can also make it harder for

                      Hello, my name is Rainy Willis. Today I hit that point in my school that I knew was coming but I was hoping to put off. The periodic table of elements is something that has always intimidated me with all of the specific colours and numbers and letters just look like a very confusing lesson. Anyhow today I was re-reading through all of the periodic elements and recapping what they all are. So today I am going to be figuring out which elements are in or helping with my main environmental issue.               The periodic table is going to help me be able to more accurately identify different objects or things such as air's different components that I wouldn't have looked at this closely before. So far I have been able to break down quite a few different things in the eco-system that I have been studying and it has been quite successful. The first thing that automatically came to mind was that hydrogen was basically water and I also remembered what I read abo

                               Hello, my name is Rainy Willis, I would once again like to start this by telling ILC how much I appreciate the help they have given me. I am learning so much from them and I am learning how to notice things that I wouldn't have even considered as a problem before last month. Thank you ILC! Today I am going to be showing you what a healthy version of the eco-system that I am currently studying would look like versus its current state.               How things change. Everything is constantly changing. Take a minute and just look around you notice everything that's changing. Maybe the time, or the color of the sky, or maybe the temperature there is always something. Just because we can't see it doesn't mean that it isn't. Did you know that 15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed every second in our bodies without us even noticing! Just as we change and the world changes, without us knowing its nature is changing too. We have di

                                                     Hello, my name is Rainy Willis. I would like to start by thanking ILC for the wonderful courses and learning that they have given me this past year. In this post, I am going to be covering a specific environmental issue that I have chosen to study for this course. I will start by explaining the issue at hand and continue by explaining how we can fix it and why it is here in the first place. So without further adieu, I present the threat of plastic.                The world we live in is so vast and has so many problems that it was quite hard to pinpoint which issue I should focus on. However, after thinking and researching for some time I decided that plastic was what I would focus on. Yes, it is a small problem some may think, well that is just the thing plastic is one of the biggest problems our current world is facing. Plastic does affect lots of areas in the world, in fact, there aren't many places you can't find plastic