Abstract CAJ

The aim of this CAJ project is to show that Formula One is not a sport that stays the same over the years. With changing regulations and rules, it is a sport that is on a constant alteration. The precise focus of my CAJ is going to be about this year’s regulations, as they are a major change in F1. Within this project I want to talk about this year’s main changes of a Fomula One car, such as:

·         the new nose

·         the changes of the front and the rear wing

·         new regulation of the engine and the usage of the fuel

·         the new gearbox

·         the enhanced Energy Recovery System (ERS)

·         and the weight

By discussing this points and comparing them to last year’s regulations, I made it generally intelligible how noticeable the changes are, even for someone who is not interested in this sport. The annual change of the regulations is seen as manslaughter of Formula One, whereas without these regulations, F1 would have stayed more expensive and less viable. 

How to kill Hitler

 

 

What is needed?

Time machine (preferably a Tardis)

Chloroform gas

nurse or doctor costume

Syringe

 

Estimated time taken

4-5 hours

 

Killing Hitler is one of the most difficult challenges one can face but with this method you can exterminate one of the worst personalities of history and therefore save the lives of millions. This might seem like an elaborate approach at first sight but it is the most guaranteed way for killing Hitler.

 

1. Acquire a time machine. If you cannot afford buying a high-functional time machine, then steal one from Gallifrey, as they are not that popular with Gallifreyan people.

2. Find out how to use it by reading the manual. Usually the manual is stored in a box on the left side of the door.

3. Travel to 13th October 1918, when Hitler will have gone temporarily blind because of a gas attack in World War I. Take the chloroform gas with you.

4. Park the time machine right in front of the infirmary where Hitler stays.

5. Try to get access to the infirmary. To do so, dress up as a nurse or a doctor. If you can’t make it into the infirmary, use the chloroform gas to make the doorkeeper pass out.

6. Look for Hitler.

7. Approach Hitler and gain his trust by saying the following sentence, “Ich bin die Krankenschwester und werde mich um dich kümmern“. Make this sentence sound as German as you can.

8. Gain his trust by checking his pulse and his eyes, so that he has the feeling that you are really a nurse or a doctor.

The following steps have to be done really quickly

 

9. Take the syringe and inject a bubble of air into a main artery.

 

10. Drop everything.

11. Run to your time machine.

12. Fly back to the time you live in.

 

Now that you are in a different time, you can’t be caught for murdering Hitler. Well done!

 

Link to flowchart: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1D4DIld9txB1e3n7z68pm3vnvBrGRV8hVUZIm-8E2Bu0/edit

SOMA

I didn’t turn on my lights today 

just to feel what they might have felt.

I refused breathing for some seconds 

just to feel what they might have felt.

I thought of my family and what they might do when I go 

just to feel what they might have felt.

Today, the only color my homeland can see is black – black as coal; black as a mineworker’s eye; black as their destiny. Over 250 lives have disappeared hundreds of meters below. Thousands of people have lost either their dad or their brother! 

Can you think of your dad being trapped down below and dying while he worked to pay the bills? 

Soma is the only word on our mouth,

 and tears are the only answers to all the questions! 

Please, pray for those families left behind! 

Please, pray for those still trapped down inside the mine! 

I'm leaving home.

I’m leaving home today. A white blank page is going to accompany me; another page from my heart that has to be filled with tears and blood, with filth and dust, with memories and thoughts. I had never enough of these but sometimes old gets too old and good is too good. And I know, I throw myself into a deep well just like a thirsty child who has been on the verge of falling into death, I fall into deep. By crumbling in my pain, I should learn to heal and to feel. Nothing is going to stop me, except my family left behind. They should learn to live without their child and sister but they should never forget. A bird, I should be, spreading my wings as broad as I can and leave my nest, flying under the sun and stars, flying through storm and rain and I am leaving home today.

DAY 5 - 8 DAY CHALLENGE

Today it is about... 

…things you should have learned by now

Self-Control – I should be aware of my responsibilities, which I am most times. But there are times when I just isolate myself from everything and refuse doing stuff I have to!

Postponing is no good – There are countless tomorrows but only a few of those without a guild monster or the German “Schweinehund” on my back.

Spend less, save more – If I would have started saving up money earlier, and with earlier I mean before Erasmus, I wouldn’t be in such stress with what to do without money after I got my degree.

Regulation #1: The Nose

While doing some research about the new regulations, I came across many articles about how ugsome the new noses of this year’s Formula One cars are. Formula One isn’t about the appearance of a car, not for a serious fan like me, but to call this year’s cars “sexy” would make everyone doubt your judgment of beauty. Apart from the chassis in general, which has changed and lowered a lot, I will write about the nose and chassis height reduction. It is one of the significant changes that have been made with the new regulations this year.

The main reason for these changes is safety. The height of the chassis has been reduced from 625mm to 525mm and the height of the nose has been dramatically lowered from 550mm to 185mm.

For the driver’s perspective, this was big change because compared to last year their feet are around 100 mm lower in the car.

The whole re-designing of the nose topic came up 20 years ago. The engineers and designers of that team realized that they could get a lot more air underneath the car if they raised front of the nose. This would increase the airflow under and over the care and achieve more aerodynamic downforce. Oh, and have I told you that aerodynamic downforce is the “Father, Son and Holy Ghost of Formula One”?

For 20 years now, the nose of Formula One cars was on a rise until the European Grand Prix in 2010. I still remember the day when it happened. Before we start watching it my brother, who is pretty delighted in other’s misfortune, told me that he wishes a horrible race with no one getting killed though. And yes, that was exactly what happened.

On Lap 9 in the Valencian race (European Grand Prix) Webber was driving right behind Kovaleinen. Webber was hoping Kovaleinen would move over for him, which happens pretty often if you are the car ahead but you know that the car behind you is faster and therefore let them pass. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. Instead, Kovaleinen hit the brakes and Webber’s nosecone hit Kovaleinen’s rear wheel. Think of a car going 320 km/h and crashing into the rear tire of another car going over 300 km/h. Well, that happened and there’s the video:

This was scenario number 1 that has come true. There are couple other horrible incidents that could’ve happened with noses set so high. For example, a T-bone crash where the nose might strike a driver’s head. Now, please don’t think of a car going 320 km/h crashing into your head!

First changes to prevent such incidents were made by introducing the regulation for stepped noses in 2012 and the ones covered with vanity panels in 2013.

Let’s get back to why people think that the new cars are very unattractive or even ugsome! Some journalists even compared the car to anteaters. Well, the reason behind such painful look of the cars is aerodynamic! The engineers and designers wanted to keep the hole under this nosecone as open as possible for airflow under the car.

Here’s a F1 car and an anteater:

Don’t you think that the anteater bears an uncanny resemblance to the F1 car?

Formula One in 2039

Since my grandma past away two years ago I promised my grandpa that I would visit him at least once a week. He is all by himself and every time I visit him, he tells me stories about the past. Sometimes I have a feeling that he is talking about another planet that he had lived in because it is unbelievable how the technology has developed so fast. Last week I promised to take him to a Formula A-1 race. In his young age he was really into this sport and when we talked about it he told me that the FA1-cars couldn’t fly 20 years ago! I started laughing because it seemed a bit ridiculous. Why should people watch cars just driving in a circle? It didn’t make any sense.

On our way to the flying race circuit, he kept talking about the legends and teams of his time. When we got out of the car, he put on a red cap with a black horse on it. Ferrari, he explained. It was the logo of one of the most successful teams 20 years ago. With a polite nod, we headed to the circuit. After the face scan, we enter the crowd section. I saw him shaking his head and I couldn’t keep myself from asking what was wrong. “In my time, you got a piece of paper and that was the ticket, not our face!” I just patted him on the back and started looking for our seats.

Half an hour later, the cars got into position and the race started. Cars were going up to 400km/h and finding a position to be able to stretch the wings and take off. Grandpa asked me what the rings were there for and while thinking, if he had been living in a cave for decades, I explained it to him: the pilots have to go through these rings which are numbered. Overtaking 200 meters before and 100 meters after the ring is not allowed. Away from the ring they can overtake the competition however they want to: fly over, under, right or left of them.

After 15 minutes, my grandpa looked at me straight-faced and said, “You know son, sometimes sticking to the old and leaving out the new is the best one can do!” 

Rating of instructions for how to make a camera lucida

These instructions for how to make a camera lucida are not helpful because they are very unclear. First, the whole text describing the process consists of only one short paragraph with only two of the three sentences describing what you have to, while the rest of text already talks about what you can do with your finished camera lucida. Second, the language used in that paragraph is too vague to get any useful information from it. It only tells you to “cut” and “glue” without elaborating on it. Even though there are some images depicting the result of those actions next to the text, they are useless because you do not know all the steps nor the order in which to execute them. Lastly, important information such as the needed material and an estimation of the time required are missing altogether. It would be very hard to build a camera lucida using these instructions.

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