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 * SUMMER READING LIST**

INVESTIGATION OF VIEWPOINTS Big Question:have the belief of specific philosophers influenced our (my) current beliefs in the __21st Century__??

**LIFEBOAT DILEMMA**

You are going on a __cruise__. 2 days into the __cruise__ your ship __experiences__ technical difficulties and the captain says it needs to make an unscheduled stop. A couple of hours later the captain makes another announcement that the ships hull has been breached and that you will all need to __start__ heading to life rafts and abandon ship. The ships life rafts are lowered as people begin to pile in and you get on board one of the life rafts.

As it is lowered however, it hits the side of the ship, putting a hole in the side of the raft, and when it hits the water it begins to sink. There are 10 people in the boat and to prevent it sinking, you quickly work out that by having 9 people __working__ for 10 minutes while 1 person rests you can bail the water out with their hands, quick enough to keep the water at bay and preventing it from sinking, but you have to continually keep it up to ensure that the boat doesn’t sink. By being able to rest one person you are greatly able to increase the length of time you can keep the boat afloat, however if the rescue team doesn’t turn up you calculate that within 5 hours the boat will sink and you will all die.

While taking your break, you glance over to another boat and notice that a friend of yours who you met on the boat is there and has noticed your predicament. He is signaling for you to come over and __join__ them on their boat so you don’t have to continue bailing water out. There is only just enough room for one more person. You also notice that their boat is moving away rapidly with the current, but your boat can’t keep up because the hole is affecting its buoyancy.

You estimate that if you jump ship, you will force all 9 remaining crew members to bail water continuously, which will reduce the total time they can stay afloat to just 2 hours, but will ensure that you will be able to live long enough to be rescued. If you stay aboard, you will not have another chance to jump ship, and there’s no guarantee that the rescue will arrive in 5 hours, meaning you will drown, however by staying you give everyone a better chance of survival.

As you watch the boat with your friend drift away, you realize you have about 30 seconds to make a decision:

a) Do you stay on your current boat and __help__ keep it afloat as long as possible and hope that the rescue will arrive in 5 hours b) Do you go to your friends boat, ensuring your rescue, but reducing the chances of the others on the boat being rescued?

Here is a map of the Chilean Miners that are trapped.

Great graphic X Prize Winner Fuel efficient car of the future

Difference Between

Google Gadget Games

CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO DOCUMENTARY ON PBS. submitted by David Sun


 * ELO __Survey__**

http://fs2.formsite.com/Curriculum1/form86/index.html

 Great video about a computer techie guy that teaches a homeless man to code. It's all about perspective!