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__//In America, you are guaranteed with much more freedoms in doing things than Korea.//__ Koreans cannot own a weapon unless they're in a military, which is different from America because American citizens can own a weapon as long as they report their possession of any type of weapon they can keep it in their house. Korea citizens have freedom in speech as long as it isn't inappropriate. Also if it offends anybody in anyway, it is banned and punished right away. Also if the speech mentions anything about supported communism or anything related to North Korea, the person will be punished.
 * Korea's Right to Bear Arms?**
 * Korea's Freedom of Speech?**

=Discussion (08-25-09)=

The **Age of Exploration** did not end once Christopher Columbus discovered the New World in 1492 or after Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan navigated around the world in 1519. Today, our explorations take us into outer space where we have sent both [|men to the moon] and [|machines to other planets]. Do you believe that man will discover new worlds, resources, and life forms in outer space the same way that earlier explorers did when they traveled the seas?

Imagine that you are a modern day explorer like Prince Henry the Navigator or Christopher Columbus who wants to explore the wonders of outer space. Below are questions Prince Henry and Christopher Columbus had to overcome and find answers to in order to make their expeditions possible. What answers do you come up with for the following questions? Post your answers on your wiki page.

> I would need a rocket that can travel really fast because the outer space is huge. And so if I can't travel fast, I might not even reach other planets. So I think faster rocket is the most important space technology people should invent if they want to travel to other planets and solar systems. > I think that the fear nowadays is that they might run out of food in outer space or they might not be able to find the way back to Earth, since the space is huge. I would tell them that there were nobody that died of starvation in outer space and that human can't yet travel fast enough in outer space to reach the point where they can't see the Earth. I don't think I can find other fears since there were already people who traveled to outer space before. > I would go to the government of Korea and ask for the money. I would tell them that I am very willing for the journey to outer space and that I will sacrifice myself if I have to. I would also tell them that if I success in the traveling through the space, Korea would be famous for it to convince them. And lastly I would say that we need more innovation and we should try to do more new things do get better and become the better. And that is what I will say to convince the governors of Korea to fund me for my trip to space.
 * 1) //**The invention of maritime technologies that allowed sailors to master treacherous and unfamiliar ocean environments is what really allowed for the Age of Exploration to occur. If you wanted to extend the Age of Exploration into outer space, what new space technology would need to be invented so that human beings could travel to other planets and solar systems?**//
 * 1) //**Think of some of the fears that existed amongst people during the 15 & 16th century when it came to sailing the open seas (monsters, boiling waters, falling off the edge of the Earth). Identify some of the fears that other people might have today if you had to convince them of traveling into the far reaches of outer space. What would you have to say or do to convince people that their fears are unwarranted and that they will be safe?**//
 * 1) //**Both Columbus and Magellan had a hard time finding someone to pay for their trips. If it wasn't for the Spanish monarchy, these men would never have been able to afford the financial cost of their adventures on their own. Finding someone to pay for your space expedition is going to be tricky too. Where would you go to gain the funding you need to pay for your space exploration trip? What would you say to the leaders of that nation to convince them of the benefits your expedition would have for their country.**//

=**Life on Mars - Q & A s**= No, I wouldn't volunteer for this mission. I wouldn't because this mission can be very dangerous since the mission is to make a contact with newly discovered creature from another plant. You don't know their characteristics and their way of living, meaning whatever you do can be a offense to them leading to struggles between you and the creature. It will be even bigger danger if the creature has weapons that you haven't seen before and have no way to defend yourself.
 * //1. Would you volunteer for the mission? Yes or No? Why/Why not?//**

I think people who are brave, bold, and adventurous would volunteer for this kind of mission. This is because lot of people can kind of figure out things that could happen to them at the very worse. So people who would volunteer would have to be brave enough to go on the mission.
 * //2. What sort of people do you suppose would volunteer for this kind of mission?//**

If they return to Earth safely with the success of communicating with the creatures then they would earn a fame for being the first person on Earth to communicate with creatures on the other planet. Also they would gain a lot of money for their success, and even being asked by TV shows if they could be interviewed or something like that. But when they don't succeed, they would just be remembered as brave people who had tragically failed in the mission. The bad thing that could happen when they don't succeed is that they won't even be able to come back to Earth because of any problems.
 * //3. What would they have to gain?//**

Like I mentioned earlier in other questions, people could be killed or injured while trying to communicate to other creatures. People can be kept in the planet as like a prisoner or float around in the space with some technological problems in the spaceship. Or people might not even reach the planet, because it's too far away and they didn't build the spaceship right. //What technological advances would have to occur before this could actually happen?// I think before they send people out to the new planets, they should send like video tape to observe the creature's way of living and their way of communicating. This way, people can be prepared for the new creatures' way of dealing with things.
 * //4. What, if anything could go wrong?//**