Wow, it's been a long time since I blog-posted, a full 15 days!
Not much has been happening in the last two weeks, I am just an average boring teen after all...
So I shall tell you a story instead...
One day, there was a wolf. The wolf was sitting by a tree, looking really upset. A man who was walking through the woods saw the upset wolf, and went to sit down with it.
"What's wrong?" The man asked. "Nothing that concerns you!" The wolf replied angrily. "Mind your own business!" He then said.
The man was very puzzled by the wolf's reaction to his kindness, so he got out his gun, shot the wolf in the head and took it home to eat for dinner. He really enjoyed the juicy lush tasting wolf meat.
The man then went out again, and saw monster sitting by a tree, looking upset. "What's wrong?" The man said. "Nothing that concerns you, now go way and mind your own business!" The monster said. The man was so annoyed by the rejection to his kindness, so he got out his gun, and shot the monster in the head loads of times, and took it home to eat. The man really enjoyed the monster meat, then he went out again.
Then all of a sudden, cries of help were heard from the distance, the man ran in the direction in which the cry came from, to his shock, it was a dragon. "What's wrong?" Said the man.
"Oh thank goodness, I was really hungry and I needed some food, have you got any?" Said the dragon. "No I haven't got any food." Said the man.
So the dragon flew over to the man, and ate him.
And the moral of the story is, don't ever talk to swans.
The end.
Saturday, 20 October 2012
Friday, 5 October 2012
Is there such thing as a perfect circle?
My initial answer would be no, you cannot draw, create, or make a perfect circle in any way, it simply cannot be done.
You may think that if you get a compass, and draw a circle on a piece of paper that the circle you draw will indeed be perfect, but it won't be, in fact, it will be far off perfect, extremely imperfect in fact, but why? Well, I'm here to tell you why.
Firstly, to have a perfect circle, you would have to have a shape where every single point is the EXACT same distance away from the centre. And by exact I mean exact, exactly the same. In scientific terms, you would find it extremely difficult to draw two lines the exact same length, next to each other, but why?
If I say to you now, draw two lines parallel to each other on a sheet of paper, both MUST be exactly 1cm long. You would get a ruler, and carefully measure two 1cm lines next to each other on your piece of paper. "Haha!" You may say. "Two lines, both exactly 1cm in length, there you go." Wrong my friend, let's look a bit closer.
So we measure with a ruler, down to the millimetre (1/10 of a centimetre). Hmm, looks pretty much the same, let's go deeper. So I get out another special ruler, with micrometres on it. (1/100) of a cm. And there you have it, one line is 3 micrometres longer than the other. I looked closer at it and showed you that those lines are not indeed equal, you could not do it!
But if you did manage to do it, then you could just measure the two lines in nanometres (A millionth of a metre) and so on until you would get down to yoctometres (which you wouldn't have done, but anyway, this is an example). A yoctometre is a 100,000th of the diameter of a neutron. If you don't know how small that is, that is so small that you can't even imagine it, it's so tiny that it is only used to measure things like how far light travels of the time of a septillionth of a second or something, which only weird scientists would even bother to find out. This length is so small it's hard core.
Why do I mention this length? Because, if you are someone who thinks that you can have a perfect circle, then that means you are saying that there has, or will be, or it is possible to draw a shape where every single point is exactly the same distance from the centre, in yoctometers. Even a computer wouldn't be able to do that, it simply just can't be done, by a computer or a human.
But, as my friends have pointed out recently when I brought this up at school, it is not impossible. Who's to say that one day someone will do that, by fluke or something? But what I am saying is that no one has ever, in the history of the world drawn a perfect circle, and no one ever will, just because it's difficulty level is so extreme, it is the closest you can get to impossible, without something being impossible, in our entire universe.
That's a big statement to make, that drawing a perfect circle is basically the most difficult thing that you can do in the whole entire universe, but I believe it's true, a perfect circle is very misunderstood by most, so please don't misunderstand it!
You may think that if you get a compass, and draw a circle on a piece of paper that the circle you draw will indeed be perfect, but it won't be, in fact, it will be far off perfect, extremely imperfect in fact, but why? Well, I'm here to tell you why.
Firstly, to have a perfect circle, you would have to have a shape where every single point is the EXACT same distance away from the centre. And by exact I mean exact, exactly the same. In scientific terms, you would find it extremely difficult to draw two lines the exact same length, next to each other, but why?
If I say to you now, draw two lines parallel to each other on a sheet of paper, both MUST be exactly 1cm long. You would get a ruler, and carefully measure two 1cm lines next to each other on your piece of paper. "Haha!" You may say. "Two lines, both exactly 1cm in length, there you go." Wrong my friend, let's look a bit closer.
So we measure with a ruler, down to the millimetre (1/10 of a centimetre). Hmm, looks pretty much the same, let's go deeper. So I get out another special ruler, with micrometres on it. (1/100) of a cm. And there you have it, one line is 3 micrometres longer than the other. I looked closer at it and showed you that those lines are not indeed equal, you could not do it!
But if you did manage to do it, then you could just measure the two lines in nanometres (A millionth of a metre) and so on until you would get down to yoctometres (which you wouldn't have done, but anyway, this is an example). A yoctometre is a 100,000th of the diameter of a neutron. If you don't know how small that is, that is so small that you can't even imagine it, it's so tiny that it is only used to measure things like how far light travels of the time of a septillionth of a second or something, which only weird scientists would even bother to find out. This length is so small it's hard core.
Why do I mention this length? Because, if you are someone who thinks that you can have a perfect circle, then that means you are saying that there has, or will be, or it is possible to draw a shape where every single point is exactly the same distance from the centre, in yoctometers. Even a computer wouldn't be able to do that, it simply just can't be done, by a computer or a human.
But, as my friends have pointed out recently when I brought this up at school, it is not impossible. Who's to say that one day someone will do that, by fluke or something? But what I am saying is that no one has ever, in the history of the world drawn a perfect circle, and no one ever will, just because it's difficulty level is so extreme, it is the closest you can get to impossible, without something being impossible, in our entire universe.
That's a big statement to make, that drawing a perfect circle is basically the most difficult thing that you can do in the whole entire universe, but I believe it's true, a perfect circle is very misunderstood by most, so please don't misunderstand it!
Monday, 1 October 2012
FIFA 13 - First thoughts
So one of the biggest games of year came out on Friday, if you have any male friends than expect them be away for a bit if you don't own the game yourself.
I got the game the day after it came out, early Saturday morning, and despite the fact I had a Science exam today and a French exam tomorrow, I have barely had the xbox turned off, this game is dragging me in, I can't see a way out.
The game is a step up from FIFA 12, the game play just feels better and they've added a few more realistic features into it, little things like subs warming up and the pitches look more realistic, the ball moves more realistically and there's more I can add.
They've added a new game mode called skill games, and they've made it so in the arena before a game you can have a quick go at these skill games before your game.
But, every single game has negatives, FIFA 13 for me is definitely one of them, here's my list of negatives:
1. You had the woodwork lots - Very annoying this, it must be deliberate as there's no way in FIFA 12 that I would hit the woodwork as much as I have done in FIFA 13, once if not twice a game the ball will strike it!
2. Attacking intelligence - can make the attackers stupider - The amount of times I have sent the ball over and my striker doesn't latch on to it because he's trying to be too smart, a flaw no doubt, hard to explain it fully, but trust, it's annoying.
3. Defending is very hard... - At moments in a game I could suddenly have a 3 on 1 attack coming my way. Where are my defenders gone? Who knows.
4. Long shots are easy, too easy in fact. - I've been scoring long shots too often, in fact earlier on I was doing a career with Celtic, last minute of the game I was already winning 4-1 or something, so I shot from not far in from the half way line with Hooper, the ball only goes and flies in, awesome goal, but on FIFA 12 I would never have scored from there! Unrealistic, footballers don't score from 40 yards regularly you know!
5. Frustrating little glitches are still lurking about. - I've been disconnected from the EA servers a few times already, not as bad as it was on FIFA 12, but who's to say it won't get worse, so annoying when you're playing around in UT then get kicked off!
I could name a few more, but I'll stick with 5, I don't want to make a long list, as I did say I liked the game above!
But every game will have problems and negatives, so I'll just carry on as normal. And if you have an Xbox360 or a PS3, it's worth getting, £40 well spent, better than an iPhone anyway!
I got the game the day after it came out, early Saturday morning, and despite the fact I had a Science exam today and a French exam tomorrow, I have barely had the xbox turned off, this game is dragging me in, I can't see a way out.
The game is a step up from FIFA 12, the game play just feels better and they've added a few more realistic features into it, little things like subs warming up and the pitches look more realistic, the ball moves more realistically and there's more I can add.
They've added a new game mode called skill games, and they've made it so in the arena before a game you can have a quick go at these skill games before your game.
But, every single game has negatives, FIFA 13 for me is definitely one of them, here's my list of negatives:
1. You had the woodwork lots - Very annoying this, it must be deliberate as there's no way in FIFA 12 that I would hit the woodwork as much as I have done in FIFA 13, once if not twice a game the ball will strike it!
2. Attacking intelligence - can make the attackers stupider - The amount of times I have sent the ball over and my striker doesn't latch on to it because he's trying to be too smart, a flaw no doubt, hard to explain it fully, but trust, it's annoying.
3. Defending is very hard... - At moments in a game I could suddenly have a 3 on 1 attack coming my way. Where are my defenders gone? Who knows.
4. Long shots are easy, too easy in fact. - I've been scoring long shots too often, in fact earlier on I was doing a career with Celtic, last minute of the game I was already winning 4-1 or something, so I shot from not far in from the half way line with Hooper, the ball only goes and flies in, awesome goal, but on FIFA 12 I would never have scored from there! Unrealistic, footballers don't score from 40 yards regularly you know!
5. Frustrating little glitches are still lurking about. - I've been disconnected from the EA servers a few times already, not as bad as it was on FIFA 12, but who's to say it won't get worse, so annoying when you're playing around in UT then get kicked off!
I could name a few more, but I'll stick with 5, I don't want to make a long list, as I did say I liked the game above!
But every game will have problems and negatives, so I'll just carry on as normal. And if you have an Xbox360 or a PS3, it's worth getting, £40 well spent, better than an iPhone anyway!
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