Being attacked by the Delta Force squad our group was frightened to death! The Delta Force squad came down upon them and covered them with their guns, because they wanted to kill them 1 by 1. The first person that the squad went to was Dr. Mangor,she was unconsious so they knew that they would dispose of her easily. They shoved snow down her throat and in her mouth so that she suffocated. This way was preffered because after the victim died the snow eventually melted and no evidence was to be found. As they headed off to Corky, Michael was thinking of a way for the remaining 3 group members to escape. As the squad was about to finish Corky, Michael threw up a mylar sheet that they were all harnessed to and the katabatic winds sent them flying. They group was escaping from the squad, but they weren't out of trouble yet! they couldnt get out of the harnesses and they were quickly traveling towards the edge of the glacier! At the last second Rachel remembered that Michael and her had pickaxes so they started hacking at the ropes. Gabrielle Ashe took the blackmail that was made on her to Senator Sexton's office and convinced the bodygaurd to let her get in. She found that the senator was in a meeting with people from the private space sector the ones who had according to Marjorie Tench, been giving the senator illegal funds for his campaign. In the end Rachels hacking cut the ropes but they were still sliding on the ice and they slid off the edge! They were lucky that there was a small piece of ice hanging on that the fell on. Then the Delta Force squad found them and broke the ice off. Rachel and Michael fell to the ocean but grabbed a hold of the ice and got on board. Delta Force left assuming they had terminated their targets, but they had no idea what would happen next. Rachel all of a sudden came up with an amazing idea! She took her pick and started hitting code on the ice, because these waters were monitored for sounds of whales and she hought that their message might be heard,and they would be found.
-Scott
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Deception Point #5
When Michael sees the glowing water he know what the culprit is. He explains that flagellates were in the water and they were making it glow. He tests the water for salt and it is present. The water is supposed to be fresh so this is very bad for the credibility of NASA. Dr. Mangor is very skeptical because her tests showed that the ice was a solid chunk, and there were no cracks for the plankton to get in. Rachel suggests the theory that the plankton were frozen in the hole and were still living when thawed out. Since everyone is so skeptical as to what is going on the group of Dr. Mangor, Corky, Michael, and Rachel travel outside the habishpere to get data on the glacier. Gabrielle Ashe finds out that the secret person who invited her to a meeting at the White House is Marjorie Tench herself. Marhorie says that she has been supplying the anti-NASA e-mails the whole time, and she has evidence to prove that private space companies are funding Senator Sextons election illegally. Marjorie Tench offers Gabrielle some hope. Marjorie says that Gabrielle can be free from the implications of Senator Sexton's crimes if she comes out and says that she had an affair with him. As the group is traveling outside of the habisphere they leave flares to show how to get back. Right after Gabrielle denies the affair Marjorie pulls out the pictures that were evidence of it, and tells Gabrielle to either sign that she had an affair with Senator Sexton, or have the naughty pictures sent to the press. as they get out they set the scanner on the ice and it starts working. Rachel and Dr. Mangor on two seperate occasions notice the flares go out and go back on again. When the results appear they show Dr. Ming's lifeless body half-way down the hole and Dr. Mangor realizes the "meteorite" was put up through the bottom of the ice! A Delta One team member tells his supervisor that the secret has been compromised.
-Scott
-Scott
2 source annotations
Research question:
Should the government have permission to wire-tap your phones and search your electronic devices if they think that you will have terrorist information?
Lewis, Harry. "Who Else Reads Your E-mail?" Christian Science Monitor Oct 2008. SIRS Researcher. SIRS Knowledge Source. Edina High School. 8 Dec 2008. http://www.sirs.com.
Harry Lewis is a cocerned writer that works for The Christian Science Monitor. In this article, Lewis examines wire-tapping in an everyday person point of view. He talks about the ease of getting information by the government(U.S.), and also icludes the censorship of messages in China. The next thing Lewis talks about is the New York Times exposing the unwarranted wire-tapping happening in the United States at this moment. Finally he ends by giving a quote from a minority in the court of a wire-tapping case which is "[H]eaven forbid that we should intrude on the government's investigatory province and actually require it to abide by the mandates of the Bill of Rights. I can only imagine what our founding fathers would think of this decision.".
Chertoff, Michael. "Searches Are Legal, Essential" USA Today Information Network Jul 2008. SIRS Researcher. SIRS Knowledge Source. Edina High School. 8 Dec 2008. http://www.sirs.com
Michael Chertoff is the secretary of homeland security. He wrote this article to try and prove that what his department is doing is right. First he argues that ever since the begining of time governments have had the right to stop dangerous people. He says that in the 21st century the dangerous things are child pornography and terrorist images which are both contained electronically. Chertoff says that only a small fraction of people are searched and many have terrorists have been caught. Finally he asserts that, not searching electronic devices at our borders would be an open window for terrorists and criminals.
Should the government have permission to wire-tap your phones and search your electronic devices if they think that you will have terrorist information?
Lewis, Harry. "Who Else Reads Your E-mail?" Christian Science Monitor Oct 2008. SIRS Researcher. SIRS Knowledge Source. Edina High School. 8 Dec 2008. http://www.sirs.com.
Harry Lewis is a cocerned writer that works for The Christian Science Monitor. In this article, Lewis examines wire-tapping in an everyday person point of view. He talks about the ease of getting information by the government(U.S.), and also icludes the censorship of messages in China. The next thing Lewis talks about is the New York Times exposing the unwarranted wire-tapping happening in the United States at this moment. Finally he ends by giving a quote from a minority in the court of a wire-tapping case which is "[H]eaven forbid that we should intrude on the government's investigatory province and actually require it to abide by the mandates of the Bill of Rights. I can only imagine what our founding fathers would think of this decision.".
Chertoff, Michael. "Searches Are Legal, Essential" USA Today Information Network Jul 2008. SIRS Researcher. SIRS Knowledge Source. Edina High School. 8 Dec 2008. http://www.sirs.com
Michael Chertoff is the secretary of homeland security. He wrote this article to try and prove that what his department is doing is right. First he argues that ever since the begining of time governments have had the right to stop dangerous people. He says that in the 21st century the dangerous things are child pornography and terrorist images which are both contained electronically. Chertoff says that only a small fraction of people are searched and many have terrorists have been caught. Finally he asserts that, not searching electronic devices at our borders would be an open window for terrorists and criminals.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Deception Point #4
This book is getting more exciting every week! This is what I read for this week.
So the group of scientists take Rachel to meet Dr. Mangor. Dr. Mangor has figured a way to get the 8-ton meteorite out of its encasing of 300 feet of ice. They point a laser at the meteorite to heat it up and melt the ice around it. Everyone celebrates as the meteorite is taken out. Rachel is called for a call with the president. The president reveals his real motives for inviting her to the arctic circle. The reason is that he wants her to tell his staff of the discovery that has been made. It is shown that Gabrielle Ashe has been getting her information from an unknown informant who sends her anonymous e-mails. She is invited to a meeting outside the White House. At first she is reluctant to go but in the end she decides to go. as everyone is celebrating Dr. Ming goes back to the extraction hole and sees something that sparks his interest. He needs a sample of the water so he tries to get it by leaning in, but the delta team uses their robot to make him lose balance and fall into the hole. Dr. Ming drowns in the cold water. The group goes to the hole later on and sees the thing that Dr. Ming saw. The water is glowing!
-Scott Haidet
So the group of scientists take Rachel to meet Dr. Mangor. Dr. Mangor has figured a way to get the 8-ton meteorite out of its encasing of 300 feet of ice. They point a laser at the meteorite to heat it up and melt the ice around it. Everyone celebrates as the meteorite is taken out. Rachel is called for a call with the president. The president reveals his real motives for inviting her to the arctic circle. The reason is that he wants her to tell his staff of the discovery that has been made. It is shown that Gabrielle Ashe has been getting her information from an unknown informant who sends her anonymous e-mails. She is invited to a meeting outside the White House. At first she is reluctant to go but in the end she decides to go. as everyone is celebrating Dr. Ming goes back to the extraction hole and sees something that sparks his interest. He needs a sample of the water so he tries to get it by leaning in, but the delta team uses their robot to make him lose balance and fall into the hole. Dr. Ming drowns in the cold water. The group goes to the hole later on and sees the thing that Dr. Ming saw. The water is glowing!
-Scott Haidet
Deception Point #3
I forgot to post over the break so I will have two posts today.
Senator Sexton arrives at a debate, and his opponent is Marjorie Tench the president's senior advisor. Although incredibly intelligent she is a very unnatractive woman. Rachel finds meets civilian scientists Michael Tolland(the creator and main character of a science television show) and Corky Marlinson who tell her about the discovery. Rachel finds out that extraterrestrials have been found fossilized in the meteor! At first Rachel is skeptical but her aprehensions to believe are quickly melted away by the undisputable facts given to her by the two scientists. Marjorie expecting Senator Sexton to bash NASA as he always does in the debate, baits him into a trap. She makes him say that he would do away with NASA if he had the chance and sets him up knowing that there will be a press conference showing NASA's ultimate discovery at 8 P.M. that very night. Dr Wailee Ming meets Rachel and joins her and the other two scientists. He is an archaeologist and explains that the "alien" fits into the darwin classification of animals. The different "aliens" range from the size of 2 inches to 2 feet and if living on earth would be related to lice! The scientists group wants to show Rachel the last remaining scientist: Dr. Mangor who they hint as being a very grouchy woman.
-Scott
Senator Sexton arrives at a debate, and his opponent is Marjorie Tench the president's senior advisor. Although incredibly intelligent she is a very unnatractive woman. Rachel finds meets civilian scientists Michael Tolland(the creator and main character of a science television show) and Corky Marlinson who tell her about the discovery. Rachel finds out that extraterrestrials have been found fossilized in the meteor! At first Rachel is skeptical but her aprehensions to believe are quickly melted away by the undisputable facts given to her by the two scientists. Marjorie expecting Senator Sexton to bash NASA as he always does in the debate, baits him into a trap. She makes him say that he would do away with NASA if he had the chance and sets him up knowing that there will be a press conference showing NASA's ultimate discovery at 8 P.M. that very night. Dr Wailee Ming meets Rachel and joins her and the other two scientists. He is an archaeologist and explains that the "alien" fits into the darwin classification of animals. The different "aliens" range from the size of 2 inches to 2 feet and if living on earth would be related to lice! The scientists group wants to show Rachel the last remaining scientist: Dr. Mangor who they hint as being a very grouchy woman.
-Scott
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Deception Point #2
Senator Sedgewick Sexton talks with his campaign manager; a young lady named Gabrielle Ashe, who apparently is smart and attractive, about which issues he should stress in his presidential debates. Gabrielle was an intern but she came up with the idea of assaulting the president's decision to continue funding NASA even though it has been proving that it is a money-pit. Senator Sexton has had an affair with her which Gabrielle now regrets. Rachel meets the president and he sends her off to the Artic circle because NASA has found something there of extreme importance. Senator Sexton meets with an unidentified man in a parking garage who has been funding his campaign, but also wants something that we don't know back in return(he probably wants a political favor). Rachel travels to the NASA base in a jet that flies 1500 miles per hour and arrives there in 3 hours. When she gets to the NASA base she is taken to a large inflated igloo where the whole NASA team has been researching the "important" discovery. The discovery is shown to be a large meteorite to have come down from space 300 years in the past. Rachel really doesn't know why this is so important, but as soon as she passes the curtain into the research area she is in awe of what she is seeing.
I have ended this blog post on a cliff-hanger and I am excited to read more for next week
-Scott
I have ended this blog post on a cliff-hanger and I am excited to read more for next week
-Scott
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Deception Point #1
I actually made it to the library! Now I am reading the book Deception Point by Dan Brown.
In the prolugue a geologist is dogsledding and he is confronted by men who tell him to transmit a strange message on his radion. For some reason unknown to us they take him into their helicopter and push him out when they are at a high altitude.
As the book begins it follows Rachel Sexton at a diner. She is there to meet her father: the presidential hopefull Sedgewick Sexton. He called her to the meeting to try and persuade her to work for his campaign. Rachel does not want to leave her job because she has worked hard for it. The story switches to that of a army team in the arctic. The team has been observing a building for 10 days and apparently something big is going to happen there. The reason why the team is observing the building is unknown but I predict we will soon know why they are there. The story switches back to Rachel as she goes to the NRO(the national reconnaissance office). We find out that Rachel's job is to sift through intel and report what is relevent to the president to him. When Rachel arrives at William Pickering's (the NRO director) he tells her that she has been directly requested by the president for a personal meeting with an unknown subject. The president sent a helicopter and Rachel gets in it. Delta one(the army guy) sends in his microbot to eavesdrop on the building and when he does he finds everything is the way he expected it. Rachel arrives at Wallops island and gets out of the chopper. She gets onto Air Force One as directed.
I like this book it is a fast read.
-Scott
In the prolugue a geologist is dogsledding and he is confronted by men who tell him to transmit a strange message on his radion. For some reason unknown to us they take him into their helicopter and push him out when they are at a high altitude.
As the book begins it follows Rachel Sexton at a diner. She is there to meet her father: the presidential hopefull Sedgewick Sexton. He called her to the meeting to try and persuade her to work for his campaign. Rachel does not want to leave her job because she has worked hard for it. The story switches to that of a army team in the arctic. The team has been observing a building for 10 days and apparently something big is going to happen there. The reason why the team is observing the building is unknown but I predict we will soon know why they are there. The story switches back to Rachel as she goes to the NRO(the national reconnaissance office). We find out that Rachel's job is to sift through intel and report what is relevent to the president to him. When Rachel arrives at William Pickering's (the NRO director) he tells her that she has been directly requested by the president for a personal meeting with an unknown subject. The president sent a helicopter and Rachel gets in it. Delta one(the army guy) sends in his microbot to eavesdrop on the building and when he does he finds everything is the way he expected it. Rachel arrives at Wallops island and gets out of the chopper. She gets onto Air Force One as directed.
I like this book it is a fast read.
-Scott
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