Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Journal #1 Angels and Demons

"Antimatter creates no pollution or radiation, and a droplet could power New York City for a full day." In the novel Angels and Demons by Dan Brown the idea of antimatter existing is unbelievable. Antimatter is the key to solving the lack of power through out the world and stoping pollution that would harm our planet. Before ever reading this novel I didn't know it was possible to create something so efficient. Just like everything else in the world it has good and bad consequences. Antimatter is highly unstable and can explode when coming into contact with anything even air. Exposing antimatter would help aid many of the world's problems but when placed in the wrong hands can be dangerous to society. The power of antimatter is so great that it would set fear over society not knowing who has control over the substance and where it would be kept that it would be safe. Scientists who created antimatter didn't have the intentions of creating something that could possibly destroy the human race. When the atomic bomb was being created the powers of the world were on a race to see who could be the first to create it. Just like the atomic bomb it would create many issues on who creates it and whos using it. If antimatter became stable and didn't ignite with anything we would be able to use the substance as a magor energy source across the world.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

My Terrible Experience

I recently ate lunch at the new Taco Bell and KFC it was a terrible experience. As soon as I arrived the line up was out the door. They had one till open at lunch time. We waited for 20 minutes in the line up until ordering. While we were waiting for our food the girl behind the till was continuing to take orders and ran out of change. She handed out the wrong change to people and waited till someone gave her change to give to customers that were waiting for their food. There was clearly not enough staff making the food. The chaos was just about to get worse when the girl running the drive through realized she was handing the wrong food out the window to customers. The manager was ordering people around and getting angry which was not helping the situation. The stress level was high after 35 minutes they called my number and I final got my food. When I politely told the man that the order was "to go" he through the bag on the counter and expected me to bag it. After leaving the crazy place I went to take a bite of my food and it was cold. The food had no flavour and was bland. After my experience I will not go back until they are more organized, hire more staff and the excitement of the new restaurant calms down.