The article I had chosen to write about was a ted talks,
that Penelope Boston our guest speaker had been a part of. When she was in
class her presentation was really fascinating, it got my immediately intrigued
with the idea of extraterrestrial life based off of microbes. During her
lecture she had mentioned some truly interesting idea of exploration on mars
and other planets with machinery, and that idea is what introduced her notion,
the notion of There might just be life on Mars. In this analysis I will try to
examine her notion, as well as expand upon that identifying her strengths and
weaknesses of her argument.
Her initial PowerPoint begins with a strong introduction to
who she is and why she studying what she is involved in now. This strengthens
her argument because it shows us how reliable she is. Next she involves the earth’s
environment and the interesting microbes that inhabit the caves of our world. Immediately
she explains how earth could give answers to possible ways to find
extraterrestrial life since some of the microbes that inhabit our world of
possibly present on other planets. She explained how lava tubes are places that
are formed after lava has gone through an area and this is where microbes might
inhabit. These types of systems are found on the planets we are discovering.
The last thing she explains was the certain equipment that is being developed
that will allow us to research such things. The types of machinery would be a
hopping microbot swarm, she then explained the ways this machinery would do its
research and the strengths it had.
This video was really interesting, Penny does a really good
job of explaining the reasons why we would want to invest our time and research
into her beliefs. Right at the beginning she establishes her credibility, as
well as backing every piece of information she introduces with facts and data.
Her entire argument is really strong she makes sure to make it interesting as
much as she can with really cool pictures, the only thing she could improve
upon is perhaps shorten her introduction to who she is, although it is really good
to incorporate this information I felt like she dragged it on and it was too
excessive, perhaps including more information on research already done in outer
space could make her argument more interesting. But all in all the presentation
was really fascinating, and really gets the viewer think of the possibilities
for outer space exploration and life which was her purpose for the
presentation.
Image 1 : https://ksj.mit.edu/sites/default/files/images/tracker/2007/itcamefromouterspace.jpg
Image 2 : http://i.space.com/images/i/000/032/806/iFF/comet-elements-life.jpg?1379366296
That was great how you provided the video. The video definitely added a better understanding to your blog and I definitely agree on what you critiqued Penny on. She provided a lot of great information but I can definitely agree that she takes quite too much time introducing herself but overall the power point/video presentation was great. How did you find out about the video? You can really see the analysis you provided for her powerpoint and right away I knew the type of post you were doing great job!
ReplyDeleteI found the video on Tedtalks.com it has alot of different microbial subjects that can all prove to be beneficial to this class. Thanks for thinking it was a good analysis I really enjoyed watching her presentation and critiquing it, in particular the best part was her explaining the possible machinery being developed to research extraterrestrial microbes.
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