Orange Team: Day Three (Jonathan)

The things that can drive change in human society are so far from why we should change that it inspires awe.

After a price increase for the pigmentation of yellow paint caused by unrest in the Federation of West Ghana, we were told our name had been changed to better suit the color of paint required. No, the color was not changed to the suggested black to absorb heat; no, it was not changed withstand torture from the atmosphere; it was changed to save a few dollars. Perhaps it was a good decision to save money, but why then do they focus their efforts in places where the change will be so insignificant as to be practically nonexistent? Why do they not instead focus on improving the efficiency of the engine or removing weight? I cannot understand. Yet I should, for I too act with similar thoughts and actions. That we can understand and yet not do is something that baffles me and many other scientists. The human mind is an area that exists right at home - and yet we instead choose to explore the deep reaches of space instead.

Ah well though. I am not a philosopher by any means, nor am I being paid to argue all the faults of the human race. I am here to push boundaries, wherever they may be. To concern myself with matters besides is to unnecessarily burden myself. I should instead concern myself with the underperforming hyperdrive and that we are weeks behind schedule (to no one's surprise unfortunately) and that the team is little more then a group of undertrained, under equipped adrenaline junkies and pseudo scientists leaving to a planet with no real purpose beyond pushing the boundaries of what we can do. But how can one help but think about such things when chaos and suffering is so obvious that vultures gather like dark clouds? How can one not help but think "Why is this more important then the lives of thousands?" Ah, but there are so many problems and so little time.

I grow world-weary with my age. Perhaps this break from my home will allow me to forget the suffering and enjoy the few joys we are given with life. This trip both is one of sorrow and joy, intermingled together in a complex web like that of woven silk. It seems as though this journey represents all of life tied together.

Perhaps I have grown to be a fat philosopher too with age. But it is nigh but impossible to distinguish wisdom from ignorance. Where one lies on the scale of "too little" to "too much" is so hard to tell that I feel that the only way to find out is to reach the middle and find the golden mean.

Enough though. The journey - whatever it may truly be - will be to Diapason upon a great rocket. What the planet has in store for me I do not know. But to ponder the future too much is to sacrifice living in the present. Whatever there is for me there, I shall soon know.

purple team post

          Hi guys! our warp speed project is wrapped up and our badge is finished so now all we have to do is to finish the storyboard, make the minecraft desert world and finish the altered landscapes. The Minecraft project is really frustrating, you see since our planet is a desert planet we have to find a large desert biome but I just can't seem to find one!! :( I have found swamps, grasslands, pinetree forests, mushroom biomes, arctic biomes, ocean biomes and many more but I just can not find a desert!!! anyway I can promise you our projects will turn out great. I will also get a post up with some info from our planet told from the colonists point of view Bye for now!

- The PURPLE team

purple team post

Hi guys sorry I didn't get this post out earlier but I want to tell you are planet name our planet name was going to be GEMINI 7 but we decided to change it to TERRA 3 because GEMINI 7 only sounded cool and didn't have much meaning behind it. so we decided on TERRA 3 because it could mean either the third planet earth has colonized or the third earth-like planet found, also I think it sounds just as cool. our planet will be a bit like the desert planet Arrakis in Frank Herbert's book DUNE.

Red Team Blog (Maya)

Today's work: Annika, Elise and Lucy worked on Tinkercad to make pins for the Red Team to wear, and Maya blogged Omnia's daily report, made a story on Twine and used Photoshop to make three 
altered landscapes. (Pictures on the bottom)


Omnia, the moon we have arrived on, is full of plant life. There are flowers that produce bubbles of oxygen, allowing us to breath, and vines that can heal humans, so there is no need for medical equipment or oxygen tanks. The temperature is quite warm, but there are purple clouds that drift down at night, causing the temperature to drop rapidly. There are several animals on this planet, many that can be heard at night, their calls echoing through the forest, but so far we've only encountered a few. There are small squirrel-like creatures with wings that live in underground burrows, large birds with blue feathers and red tails, and small insects living on giant mushrooms that can leap forward. There is plenty of ripe fruit growing from trees with red branches, but we're not quite sure if they're edible, so we eat the food that we've brought from Earth, stocked in our spaceship. 
Signing off until tomorrow's report,
RED TEAM

Orange Team Post

Today, Yellow Team worked on our warp-speed design using www.weavesilk.com and AppleScript.  We are using code to create an image as our warp-speed design and on weavesilk.com, we have created many designs, but are still working to create more designs.  We are working a little bit on the logo or insignia of our planet using www.tinkercad.com, and will later 3D-print our creation.  We have decided to name our planet Diapason which means a grand swelling burst of harmony.  The planet is very quiet and erie and you can barely hear a single sound on the planet

Red Team Blog

 Red Team Blog

Today, 

Maya worked on warp speed on iMovie.

Elise made planet name: Omnia, and blogged.

Annika researched planet names, and made kaleidoscope warp speed videos.

Lucy  started making 3D logo, and made altered landscape.

Future Generators 3D Summer Camp

Catlin Gabel Summer Camps 
7/14 - 7/18

3D-print a future civilization on another planet.  Practice design skills using Adobe After Effects and TinkerCad 3D modeling software as we do a science-fiction (or science fact?) exploration of what life might be like on distant alien planets - and how humans might make it there to explore and coexist.  Learn 3D printing, animation, motion graphics, and some of the prevailing theories on extraterrestrial life to inspire our investigation.