Friday, December 13, 2013

Sandy Hook

It's been a year since the Sandy Hook shooting in Connecticut. The 20 year old man went into a harmless elementary school and killed 26 child and adults in 11 minutes. 20 of those dead were children and he killed his mom. After the shooting, talk about gun violence was on the rise. People were talking about arming teachers during school. A major dilemma was trying to be resolved. I still don't think it's resolved to this day. Even though there hasn't been any shootings, we still don't know what to do if this happens again. The resolutions to this problems have there pros and cons. Arming a teacher with a gun is a lot more protective than having nothing. But if that teacher doesn't use the gun properly, something bad is bound to happen. I think the best solution would be to increase your security by having more policeman at a school or investing into a much better security system. We don't really know what will happen, but we hope it helps out in the long run.

Sunday, December 8, 2013

About a week ago, Amazon revealed drones the have been testing. These drones are called octocopters. They have 8 propellers and a little box in the middle to control it. They can lift up to 5 pounds as of now. Amazon says 5 pound goods cover 86 % of their total products. These octocopters can send packages to your house in 30 minutes. I think that with this type of  technology, it could help us with next generation technology. I could help us take a step forward in the future and making things more efficient. Amazon says they run on electricity which is more efficient for the environment. They also said that it's going to be a few years before this whole project is going to done. With a couple years of waiting, something really cool could happen.