Week 3

2. What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Ozzy Osborne?

Ozzy Ozborne is known to not participate in any social networking sites, though he does have a twitter site .
http://twitter.com/OfficialOzzy

Though many famous personalities do not run their own twitter pages so if this is the case then the best way to contact him would be through his manager: Sharon Osbourne.

http://www.ask.com/web?q=How+to+contact+ozzy+osbourne&search=&qsrc=0&o=10181&l=dir


3. When and what was the first example of global digital communication?

Morse Code was designed in 1835 by Samual Morse
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Morse_code

4. What is the cheapest form of travel from the Gold Coast to Melbourne?
https://secure.flightcentre.com.au/tundra/spring/availability/avail

5. Who is Hatsune Miku? What company does she belong to? What is her birthday?

Hatsune Miku 'is a singing synthesizer application and its female character, developed by Crypton Future Media. It uses Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid synthesizing technology. Her voice is sampled from Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita.'

The original was released the 31st of August 2007 so I guess you could say that was her birthday.

http://www.answers.com/topic/hatsune-miku

6. Find a live webcam in Antarctica. Find a place to stay in Antarctica.

http://www.sgisland.gs/index.php/%28h%29South_Georgia_webcam?useskin=


You can't stay in Antarctica unless offshore though scientists have ways to stay there, usually camping.

Polar Star

Converted Ice-Breaker for Expedition Cruises in Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula & Weddell Sea, Antarctica.

7. What song was top of the Australian pop charts this week in 1980?

On the 11th of August 1980 the number one song was Funky Town by Lipps Inc.

http://thisdayinmusic.com/birthdayno1

8. How would you define the term 'nano technology'? In your own words, what does it really mean?
Nano technology is the branch of engineering that deals with things smaller than 100 nanometers.


A nanometer is one billionth of a meter, therefore nanotechnology is simply the study of small extremely small things.

wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

9. What type of camera is used to make ‘Google Street View’?

An eleven lens Dodeca 2360

"The 11-lens, softball-size, video game-style gadget that had privacy advocates shifting in their seats turns out to be changing how users interact with video and the commercial realms."

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/news/4232286

10. Translate these questions into Klingon.

1. nuq 'oH vo' chay' 'ar ta'ta' 'oH Daq chen

2. nuq 'oH HochHom Daq
4. ghorgh 'ej nuq ghaHta' wa'DIch vo'
5. nuq 'oH vo' vo' SuD baS [Coast] Daq [Melbourne]
6. 'Iv 'oH [Hatsune] [Miku] nuq [company] ta'taH ghaH [belong] Daq nuq 'oH Daj qoS
7. tu' [a] yIn [webcam] Daq [Antarctica] tu' [a] Daq Daq [stay] Daq [Antarctica]
8. nuq bom ghaHta' [top] vo' [the] [Australian] [pop] [charts] vam [week] Daq
9. chay' [would] SoH [define] [the] [term] ['nano] [technology'] Daq lIj ghaj mu'mey nuq ta'taH 'oH [really] [mean]

http://www.mrklingon.org/




I missed the week 3 tutorial as I was sick and was horrified to find out the painful tasks I had to catch up on.
Being someone who religiously using google and wikipedia, this task was extremely annoying for me to complete.