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Colonization of Venus

08.01.2015

As you know, the conditions on the surface of Venus are not comfortable: the atmospheric pressure there is about 90 times greater than on Earth, the average temperature on the surface reaches 450 ° C, and the “atmosphere” consists of 95% carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid.

In addition, the planet is shaken by regular volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and lightning, so the colonization of Venus is a very difficult and dangerous idea. NASA's ambitious new project called HAVOC (High Altitude Venus Operational Concept) is quite original: in order to avoid interaction with the atmosphere of Venus, scientists have proposed constructing giant airships that will hover at an altitude of 50 kilometers above the surface of the planet. The conditions inside the "cloud city", as the developers call it, will be quite tolerable: 85% of the earth's gravity and air temperature at the usual "earthly" level.

Scientists claim that many factors speak in favor of the colonization of Venus, for example, proximity to the Sun and, as a result, the ability to install solar panels to collect energy, as well as the distance to the planet, which is half that of Mars.

If the HAVOC project is given the green light, it is planned to be implemented in five phases: robotic reconnaissance, a one-month orbital mission, a one-month sub-atmospheric mission, a one-year atmospheric mission, and finally the construction and settlement of a "cloud city".

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Thanks to a special educational game, children are much better at solving math problems, according to a new study from the University of Ghent (Belgium). To measure the effectiveness of the Monkey Tales learning game in improving math skills, the researchers divided elementary school students into three groups. In the first group, the kids played Monkey Tales for three weeks. The second group did the exercises in a regular notebook. The third group did not complete any learning tasks at all. Before the start of the test, the students took an arithmetic test. They repeated the same test after several weeks of "training".

It turned out that children who played Monkey Tales got an average of 6% more correct answers than before. The children who did the exercises in the notebook improved their results by 4%. Participants in the no-task group improved their test scores by only 2%. In addition, students who played Monkey Tales or did exercises in a notebook solved the test tasks faster than those who did not do additional math (improvements were 30% and 10%, respectively).

It is important that the students found playing Monkey Tales as an exercise in math skills interesting and exciting. About 60% of students would prefer to do math while playing. And only 39% preferred to do exercises in a notebook. Thus, we can say that the game has a positive effect on learning. The game not only improves skills, but also gives children pleasure, mathematics seems less boring to them, and they study it with more pleasure. Scientists do not exclude that the positive effect may be just related to the children's passion for the game. In addition, the game is better than paper exercises due to the fact that it allows you to quickly increase the level of difficulty, and thus, additionally trains cognitive skills.

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If children like educational games, they will learn with pleasure, scientists say.

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