Welcome to our Blog!

Hi and welcome to Arul, Mikael, Mathias, Nitharshaan and Thomas’ blog!
We are students from 1STB at Elvebakken high school.

Our theme is the universe and our thesis question is: “Under what circumstances can there be life on other planets?”

Introduction

 Introduction

The universe! Some say it’s endless. It is defined as everything that exists. Everything from the tiniest micro-organism to the biggest star, all we know of time, energy, and nature is all a part of the universe. All the eight planets closest to our sun, including our planet earth, is a part of what we call a solar system. Our own sun is a star, which together with 200 billion other stars make the galaxy we call the Milky Way. A galaxy is what we call a certain number of solar systems close to each other. There are billions of known galaxies in what we call the universe. Our milky way is 100 000 light years in diameter and, while the universe is at least 93 billion light years and about 13, 7 billion years old. So far, our planet earth is the only known planet consisting of life to us. Here we will talk about how the universe was created and how life on earth was created in order to compare that with life on other planets. We will then talk a bit about other known planets to us and where we can possibly live, how we can discover other forms of life, and the probability that we will ever find other forms of life building up to our main question and problem: What is needed for there to be life other places in the universe?

(Friday) Putting it all togheter

Today we are pretty much finished with the texts, so now we need to putt it all together.

we also need to write introduction to each topic, and divide it into different pages.

The last thing we do is to give the blog some finishing touches to make it easier to navigate and make it look better.

(Thursday) Continue to work

We gathered at school and started to work on our topic. We divided the task again, because it was unevenly divided.

Goal for the day is to finish writing.

(Wednesday) Finally back at school.

School started at 08:15. the group gathered at nine o’clock and started working.
We divided the project into sections and shared work tasks.
Some goals for the day are:
Define what life is.
Look on what has to be present for there to be life.
Wither we can interpret electromagnetic radiation to get information about the universe.
How life came to earth.

We work with these tasks today and look at each others texts tomorrow, see what else we need and put it all together to a final product.

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(Monday) Under what circumstances can there be life on other planets?

School started at nine o’clock and we started thinking about what our blog was going to be about. Thomas went to a course about how to make blogs and taught the others how to publish text. We decided that the blog’s subject, and our thesis question was going to be about “what circumstances has to be present for there to be life on another planet”.
We went to an observatory at Harestua, there we listened to lectures given by people with a lot of knowledge about the universe.

Amongst others was Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard, he is a famous astrologist and held a very immersive lecture. We looked at star-maps and looked through telescopes. For there to be life there must be Oxygen, Nitrogen, Carbon and Hydrogen, but this alone is not enough, we have not yet found out what it is that starts the process that leads to organisms. Scientists think that what brought life to earth might have been a comet, colliding into our planet. Either that the comet contained substances necessary for life, or that the comet had some organisms itself. Though only bacterial, these evolved to the creatures we know today.