The Spy Next Door
January 31, 2010A few weeks ago, my family and I went to a movie called the Spy Next Door. In the Movie there was something that caught mine and my fathers attention. There was some kind of bacteria that was multiplying while it was eating the oil up. Then we figured out that it would be cool if we could figure out how many bacterias there would be in one whole day. So every 15 min. one bacteria would multiply by two. So if that one bacteria kept multiplying by two the whole day, what would it be? The answer is about 79 ninillions. This means that there are 32 0s in the entire number, is n’t that cool? I figured this out using the binary system. Read up about it in my blog called The Binary System.
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It was funny how the yellow bug ate the villainess shoes along with with gallons of gas! Like you said, this would be a great way to tackle oil spills in oceans. If they can get it to work, it will save millions of sea animals that die from oil spills caused by tankers.
This shows how concepts that traditionally fall in different fields of study (Ex. Math, biochemistry, molecular biology etc) could lead to amazing insights when they are put together. Here you used binary system concepts (which you learnt more than a year ago) to explain how a drop of oil eating bug could eat gallons of oil rapidly. Imaginate minds could use these tools to save animals at sea from human activity!