High-Level Project Summary
This project involves the abilities of Earth that help the continuation of life. The most important situation that we need the help of Earth is climate crisis. This is the cause of many problems today. We designed a superhero that holds the wold's most important cycle, the water cycle. We think that we can respond the disasters such as drought and fire, with water. Our superhero cocsist of lots of bubles and every buble has a different ability. For instance a ability like water cycle that involves the exchange of energy, which leads to temperature changes. When water evaporates, it cools the environment. When it condenses, it warms the environment. Our super hero can control the water cycle.
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Detailed Project Description
Due to issues such as climate change, deforestation, extinction of species, and reduction in arable land area, our planet is getting disrupted day by day, and faces a new disaster today. In order for the Earth to be habitable for all life sustainably, we have created a hero with superpowers. Our hero can detect any disaster that can happen on Earth, and has the power to prevent damage. And this power comes from animals with special abilities, in other words nature itself.
Our hero consists of interlocked bubbles. Each bubble has a problem solving capacity of a different kind. One of the bubbles contains millions of photosynthetic algae in order to reduce carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere. Our hero can also address the issue of drought, another issue caused by climate change, by dropping algae onto farmlands affected by drought thus providing organic matter as fertilizer. It can also use another bubble that uses the power of the water cycle to restore land affected by desertification. It can prevent natural disasters such as wildfires, earthquakes and hurricanes before they even happen. For example it can detect earthquakes originating at kilometers below the ground, and the tsunamis caused by it, by utilizing the sonar sense of dolphins. It can detect wildfires before they can spread into large areas by using the smell sense of bloodhounds, a smell sense a million times stronger than that of humans. When a nuclear explosion occurs, it can use the hibernation ability of the tree frog to protect surviving humans. In addition, our hero is hermaphrodite like sea snails and does not have any specific gender. This reminds that to be a male or female is not a power.
We have designed this hero to protect the Earth. However, we can protect it ourselves without needing a hero. We are all heroes. By using renewable energy sources, using industrial filtration systems, and using electric cars, we can prevent the climate crisis.
Space Agency Data
We used NASA galeries and other various data to support our opinions with scientific facts.
Also the water cycle is inspired us.
Hackathon Journey
The Space Apps Challenge was a great experience for all of us! We designed our project inspired by the water cycle because we know that the water cycle is an indispensable part of the world. While researching this subject, we also learned about the more detailed and impressive aspects of the water cycle than it actually is. This process has given us a lot and we improved ourselves too much.
We thank NASA for this hackathon. They informed us whenever we want.
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Tags
#water #climatecrisis #power #powerofearth #globalwarming #greenhousegases #climate #watercycle
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