Tuesday, June 8, 2010

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Willam Norman Grigg & Major Ralph Peters - Psychology of communication

Iwo Jima video shows the real situation in war. They shoot, run, and hide. Also, the video shows the area's map including the expert's explanation.
Fallujah video shows soldiers who are ready for attacking. Also, the video shows internal structure of a ship.
In the article, there are several points that William Norman Grigg and Major Ralph Peters made. William Norman Grigg explains the U.S. invasion from an Iraqi perspective and help up compare today's secular army with that of General Washington's when America was still a Christian nation. Peters distinguishes worriorsn and soldiers. The former is savage, and the latter are disciplined. For the "warrior" class, the end of fighting means to the end of good times.
From these video, I came to know about real situation and tactics in war. They are so realistic. And before I read this article, I didn't think about that soldier and warrior are differnet. This article made me to think about them, and nowaday's situation about war.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Photos of Katrina - Photojournalism

The water of Katrina is about eight miles high.



Communication Project # 12 + Nuclear Weapons Answers - Psychology of Communication

The Size of the Universe: Trying God on For Size
In the first scene, the earth and Venus are bigger than other planets like Mars, Mercury, and Pluto. However, Jupiter and Saturn are much bigger than them. Even, the Sun makes Jupiter and Saturn very small things like toys. The bigger planets continue to appear. Arcturus makes the Sun a little dot. Finally, there is Red Supergiant planet that is hugely bigger than other planets.

What is the Universe Expanding Into?
The video says that if the universe is infinite, there is no edge or boundary. On the other hand, if the universe is finite, we are expanding into something. Then, the boundary is so far away, we can’t see it.

Olympus Mons: 27 km
Mount Everest: 8,849 m
Olympus Mons is three times as tall as Mount Everest.

Katrina: 175 mph (280 km/h)
The red spot on Jupiter - about 25,000 ~ 40,000 kilometers (15,500 to 25,000 miles)

Valles Marineris: 4,000 kilometres (2,500 miles)
Grand Canyon: 446 km(277 miles)
Valles Marineris is about nine times as long as Grand Canyon.

Earth: 12,742 km
Sun: 1,393.000 km (865,570.0707 miles)
VV Cehpei: 1600-1900 R

I think that if America gives up all of its nuclear weapons, America won’t be safe. And I think other countries that have nuclear weapons such as China, Russia, the UK, Israel, Pakistan, France, and India will not give up their nuclear weapons. Also, since North Korea is developing their nuclear weapon, they will not give it up. My opinion is that such countries would not give up nuclear weapons and terrorists also would keep strict watch against these countries.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Communication Project #11 - Psychology of Communication

-Modern Technology, Robotics, Robot Soldiers, Predator Drones-
This article is about tapping into drones' video feeds. It is bringing surveillance above head down to soldiers and Marines on the ground. But, there is a problem that is an enormous security breach. At first, the military developed the Remotely Operated Video Enhanced Receiver, or ROVER. Early units were done with an unencrypted signal and it could be both intercepted and jammed. The article supposes that if the aircraft has an encrypted transmitter and the troops have an unencrypted ROVER receiver, that surveillance footage can't be passed down to the soldiers who need it most.

After reading this article I thought that more and more modern technology is used to our lives. It's good that our lives come to develop because of this technology. However, I think that human should not follow robots. Making convenient robots for our lives is good, but we should not follow them. In this article's case, the military has to consider making efficient robots for them, but, not ones that they have trouble controlling and catching the robots.