Wednesday, May 11, 2011

BrewerExploratorium

Your Age On Other Worlds: Here, I typed in my birthday and pressed calculate. From there, my age was calculated on all nine of the planets. I learned I would be 67 years old on  Mercury and  .065 years old on Pluto.

Your Weight On Other Worlds: On this site, I figured out what my weight would be on all of the planets and the moon. I figured out that I would weigh the most on Jupiter being 243.4 pounds. I would weigh the least on the moon, being only 17 pounds.

Squirming Palm: Here, I stared at a pattern for 15 seconds as it was turning to the left. After 15 seconds, I looked at my palm. Not only could I see the pattern on my palm, but it was spinning in the opposite direction also. I learned this is called the waterfall effect.

Changing Illusions: In this exercise I had to look at five different illusions. Using a dial at the bottom of each illusion, i had to test my brain in a series of steps such as making shapes appear the same size, placing the circle in the middle, and lining up sets of lines. I learned that perception is tricking your eyes during illusions.

Fading Dot: I stared at a blue dot in the center of the screen which was surrounded by a larger green circle. After moments of staring at the blue dot, it eventually turned the color green like the circle that was surrounding it. It kind of hurts your eyes though!

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