Week 3 tutorial Activity

1. What is the weight of the world’s biggest machine? How much did it cost to build?

My answer: Ship. Thousand of million dollars.
Another answer: Liebherr T 282B: Largest Earth-hauling Truck in the World. Cost: US$3.5 M

Reference: http://www.bukisa.com/articles/40463_worlds-largest-machines-ever-built

2. What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Ozzy Osborne?
My answer: E-mail her.

Another answer: Information online. Reference:http://famous-relationships.topsynergy.com/Ozzy_Osbourne/Contact.asp

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

My answer: 70s. Television.

Another answer: 1830s.

telegraphy.

Reference: http://vig.pearsoned.co.uk/catalog/uploads/Glover_Digital%20Comms_C01%20reduced%20file%20size.pdf

4. What is the cheapest form of travel from the Gold Coast to Melbourne?

My answer: plane.

Another answer: cheap flight.

Reference: http://www.jetlo.com.au/cheap-flights/Gold_Coast

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

My answer: I don't know too much about her actually. The name sounds like Japanese.

Another answer: She is a singing synthesiser application and its female character, developed by Crypton Future Media. January 2004.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid

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

My answer: observation station

Another answer: Australian Antarctica Division.

Reference:http://www.aad.gov.au/asset/webcams/mawson/default.asp

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

My answer: I've no idea.

Another answer: Blondie

Reference: http://80music.about.com/od/80smusic12/tp/topsongsof1980.htm

8. How would you define the term 'nano technology'? In your own words, what does it really mean?

My answer:Actually I don't know what is nano technology, but this word looks very familiar.

Another answer: Nanotechnology is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular.

Reference: http://www.crnano.org/whatis.htm

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

My answer: Sony.

Another answer:there are nine directional cameras for 360° views at a height of about 2.5 meters,GPS units for positioning and three laser range scanners for the measuring of up to 50 meters 180° in the front of the vehicle. There are also 3G/GSM/Wi-Fi antennas for scanning 3G/GSM and Wi-Fi hotspots.^[3]Recently, 'high quality' images are based on open source hardware cameras from Elphel.

Reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View

10. Translate these questions into Klingon.

My answer: 1. nuq 'oH [the] [weight] vo' [the] [world’s] [biggest] [machine] chay' 'ar ta'ta' 'oH [cost] Daq chen

2. nuq 'oH [the] [best] [way] [quickest] HochHom [reliable] Daq [contact] [Ozzy] [Osborne]

3. ghorgh 'ej nuq ghaHta' [the] wa'DIch [example] vo' [global] [digital] [communication]

4. nuq 'oH [the] [cheapest] [form] vo' [travel] vo' [the] SuD baS [Coast] Daq [Melbourne]

5. 'Iv 'oH [Hatsune] [Miku] nuq [company] ta'taH ghaH [belong] Daq nuq 'oH Daj qoS

6. tu' [a] yIn [webcam] Daq [Antarctica] tu' [a] Daq Daq [stay] Daq [Antarctica]

7. nuq bom ghaHta' [top] vo' [the] [Australian] [pop] [charts] vam [week] Daq

8. chay' [would] SoH [define] [the] [term] ['nano] [technology'] Daq lIj ghaj mu'mey nuq ta'taH 'oH [really] [mean]

9. nuq [type] vo' [camera] 'oH [used] Daq chenmoH [‘Google] [Street] [View’]

10. [Translate] Dochvammey [questions] Daq tlhIngan