The Beginning Of My Biology Adventure
Friday, August 29th of 2014 marks the start of an official trek into the uncharted jungles of room 340. After a few previous grueling days of notes and boring class introductions preparing us for the unknown depths and twists and turns that lurk within the Filipekian Jungle we pushed our class struggle bus into the magical oasis of water hidden within. Our first stop, the Reverse Penny Well.
As our struggle bus valiantly pushed through the untamed Filipekian Jungle we encountered our first magical sight. The indigenous tribe (named the Filipeks), were mass worshipers of Copper. So naturally they decided to make it resemble their favorite president, Abraham Lincoln. But this no ordinary coin or mega-penny- it had a diameter of over 25ft and it was used as a well! The Filipeks showed our bewildered minds something we could never believe... A reverse well; instead of containing the water deep within the ground they built it above ground for an easier access whenever they needed water. As we stood there looking at a tower of water stacked up on the mega-penny the locals described how cohesion a property discovered a whole back held their water suspended unbelievably together. Cohesion is a property of molecules to stick together or to attract each other and by this sort of weak interlock of water molecules is how they were able to stack up on each other without falling over. The locals also showed us that the surface tension could easily be broken if too much water was added or if any non polar substance came into contact with the water (water is polar). The few times when they would want to flush out their water supply was if it was ever tainted, good luck cleaning that well out!
Reverse Penny Well
As our struggle bus valiantly pushed through the untamed Filipekian Jungle we encountered our first magical sight. The indigenous tribe (named the Filipeks), were mass worshipers of Copper. So naturally they decided to make it resemble their favorite president, Abraham Lincoln. But this no ordinary coin or mega-penny- it had a diameter of over 25ft and it was used as a well! The Filipeks showed our bewildered minds something we could never believe... A reverse well; instead of containing the water deep within the ground they built it above ground for an easier access whenever they needed water. As we stood there looking at a tower of water stacked up on the mega-penny the locals described how cohesion a property discovered a whole back held their water suspended unbelievably together. Cohesion is a property of molecules to stick together or to attract each other and by this sort of weak interlock of water molecules is how they were able to stack up on each other without falling over. The locals also showed us that the surface tension could easily be broken if too much water was added or if any non polar substance came into contact with the water (water is polar). The few times when they would want to flush out their water supply was if it was ever tainted, good luck cleaning that well out! 
A side angle of the water stacked up on the Reverse Water Well.
Whenever they needed to flush out their well the Filipeks would mainly use soap, if not, whatever non polar substance they could get to break water's weak polar cohesive bonds.
A side angle of the water stacked up on the Reverse Water Well.
Whenever they needed to flush out their well the Filipeks would mainly use soap, if not, whatever non polar substance they could get to break water's weak polar cohesive bonds.
Papercup Lake
The struggle bus is very aptly named as we have all slowly begun to realize. As it spluttered and choked and died before it started we knew this journey was going to feel a lot longer than the 250 days we have left until we meet our doom. The captain of our mothership finally dropped us of at our second stop. Papercup Lake. We boarded paper clip boats, specifically designed for travel on the unique lake. With much anxiety as we sat down and pushed ourselves out to the middle of the lake expecting to sink like the Titanic we were in disbelief as we remained floating on top of the water due again to water's magical property of cohesion. Our thin little metal curved ships were saving us from a bath by being so light they could float because they didn't break the water's surface tension created by it's weak cohesion bonds, until our leader thought it'd be funny to toss a bar of soap our way.... SPLOOSH! There was that bath he promised us.
A picture of our magic paper clip ship sunken at the bottom, after our captain's cruel idea of breaking the water's polar surface tension by tossing a non polar soap.
The Final Frontier
Our last and final stop of our first adventure through the Filipekian Jungle, the high Charles mountains of the Filipek Monks. These revered wizards were the upmost advanced of all their knowledge of water storing away in their temple, deep within its chambers the dark Filipekian Water Bowl. Whenever someone needs an answer to a pressing matter they could not find the answer to, they traveled far and wide to seek out this bowl. To activate the bowl's mystical power of splashing water of knowledge onto you, you had to become one with the bowl vibrating it's handles creating a resonance with the bronze material of the bowl.that created waves that began splashing when disrupted by the projected dragons on the bowl. However the rest, how immense knowledge is gained from getting a few drops of water splashed onto you is a mystery the Filipek Monks swore an oath to protect.
As we departed with our new wealth of knowledge we realized we'll probably have to upgrade our brain capacity for this class. Until next time my fellow explorers!
