Ooook…. So this blogging thing kinda didnt get off to a lekker start. So i’m going yo try again. Writing chemistry tomorrow, organic chemistry halogenoalkanes and alcholos yah!
I only recently started to learn Java and my programming skills are still pretty much a work in progress.
But after reading this article and playing around with sclick and eclipse I decided to give it a try and make a game of some sort.
I didnt really plan the thing or anything i just started, first just moving a “player” around, then I tried to make it shoot something, which i sorta managed to do… but that didn’t work out as i planed.
I then got this idea for a realy dumb game… Your objective is to see for how long you can keep on going.. You have fuel that you use up as you move, thus you chase after fuel pretty much the whole time hehe. I plan to add to it and make it a bit more interesting and fun as the only “twist” is you have a 5% chance to spawn a thing that makes you move faster. I dont have a name for it yet. Any suggestions?
I dont mind sharing the source code if there is any interest. But I would like some suggestions and possibly fixes or sample code or something in that line to help improve my programming skill and/or logic.
Source code and screen shots coming soon…
Why was Japan’s March 11 earthquake so big?
Below are some more facts and figures relating to the causes and consequences of the world’s fifth-largest earthquake since 1900.
Magnitude, according to USGS: 9.0
Speed at which the Pacific Plate is smashing into the Japanese island arc: 6 centimeters (3.5 inches) per year
Speed at which the San Andreas Fault in California is slipping: about 4 centimeters per year
Size of the rupture along the boundary between the Pacific and North America plates: 290 kilometers ( 180 miles) long, 80 kilometers (50 miles) across
Approximate length of Honshu island: 1,300 kilometers
Years since an earthquake of this magnitude has hit the plate boundary of Japan: 1,200
Duration of strong shaking reported from Japan: 3 to 5 minutes
Distance that the island of Honshu appears to have moved after the quake: 2.4 meters
Change in length of a day caused by the earthquake’s redistribution of Earth’s mass: 1.8 microseconds shorter
Normal seasonal variation in a day’s length: 1,000 microseconds
Depth of the quake: 24.4 kilometers
Range of depths at which earthquakes occur in Earth’s crust: 0 – 700 kilometers
Top speed of tsunami waves over the open ocean: About 800 kilometers per hour Normal cruising speed of a jetliner: 800 kilometers per hour
Length of warning time Sendai residents had before tsunami hit: 8 to 10 minutes
Number of confirmed foreshocks to the main shock: 4
Magnitudes of the confirmed foreshocks: 6.0, 6.1, 6.1 and 7.2
Size of the rupture along the boundary between the Pacific and North America plates: 290 kilometers ( 180 miles) long, 80 kilometers (50 miles) across
Approximate length of Honshu island: 1,300 kilometers
Years since an earthquake of this magnitude has hit the plate boundary of Japan: 1,200
Duration of strong shaking reported from Japan: 3 to 5 minutes
Greatest distance from epicenter that visitors to the USGS Web site reported feeling the quake: About 2,000 kilometers
Distance that the island of Honshu appears to have moved after the quake: 2.4 meters
Energy Released : 1.9±0.5×10E17 joules of energy, equivalent to 9.32 teratons of TNT (approximately 600 million times that of the Hiroshima bomb) and roughly 80 years of global energy usage
Distance Earh’s axiz moved :25 centimeters
Change in length of a day caused by the earthquake’s redistribution of Earth’s mass: 1.8 microseconds shorter
Normal seasonal variation in a day’s length: 1,000 microseconds
Depth of the quake: 24.4 kilometers
Range of depths at which earthquakes occur in Earth’s crust: 0 – 700 kilometers
Top speed of tsunami waves over the open ocean: About 800 kilometers per hour
Normal cruising speed of a jetliner: 800 kilometers per hour
Length of warning time Sendai residents had before tsunami hit: 8 to 10 minutes
Number of confirmed foreshocks to the main shock: 4
Magnitudes of the confirmed foreshocks: 6.0, 6.1, 6.1 and 7.2
Number of confirmed aftershocks: 401
Worldwide average annual number of earthquakes over 6.0 in magnitude: 150
Additional sources: USGS, CNN, Space.com, NOAA, Boeing, PBS NewsHour
My official first post! Lets hope theres allot more to come. Lets start of with some info about “me”
My name : Kerneels Bezuidenhout
Age : 17
School : Doing my A levels at Cambridge Acadamy
Hobbies : Sport, Programming, Music, Science, Gaming
Steam account : dark_generic
My aim with this blog is to post about my life.. programming, science and music… I will be a bit innactive for the next 2 weeks or so because we are writing exams (^_^)
Enjoy!
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