I love Rio Tinto =)

OMGOMGOMG WE GOT TO GO TO CANBERRA =)
for free =P suck that ppl hehe

cos of the rio tinto big science competition xD

yayyy - we also bludged the science common test ^^

We caught a QANTAS =O
haha jing hang

And then we're in the air!!! =]
Don't you love that feeling when you're staring out the window and the plane guns its engines REALLY loud then full accelerates and lifts off ground?
Woooooooooooooooooh!

Change your perspective =)

Coming back inland

Apparently I'm the only one so excited about riding on planes - I'm like WOAH DID YOU SEE THAT and everyone's like asleep .__. loooooooooolz

After only like 40 minutes we get to Canberra (safely on a QANTAS). Yayyyy
ANU is so pretty man ^__^

RoFL a Jackie Chan Science Centre

Because the contributions he's made to science are just completely groundbreaking lmao
But yehh he is awesumm hehe

There was this uber evil/biatchy woman from ASI there -.-' She was like so sarcastic and critical and one of those I-don't-give-a-shit-about-you-what-you-think-cos-I'm-the-most-important people . . . I'd put her face here but then she'd be identifiable and I'd be sued for defamation like that other poor Blogger dude who dissed some celebrity who then forced Google to reveal the blogger's identity.

Then we had the ceremony which was actually pretty anti-climatic :(
They had like a lecture theatre half the size of ours then presented the certificates (pieces of paper) everyone at super dooper speed in like under 5 minutes o__O
Gerald said they used to give glass plaques (did I spell that right or is that the stuff on your teeth?) and free USBs to you!!! >.<"

Then we had some dodgy senator come in with the usual "You are the future" and "We look to you" etc etc etc blahblahblah rhetoric. But then the Dean of Science at ANU and Rio Tinto's chief scientist spoke and it was obvious they really do love science unlike that politician noob

Then the guy's like OH LETS GET SOME OF THE TOP ACHIEVING SCHOOLS TO TALK TO US. LETS START WITH RUSE. So Chi Wai went out and spoke about Ruse. ROFL then later Kevin tells us that the Melbourne Grammar kids (who got like 4 ppl in) were like "OK, when he calls us up I'll go talk". Then the guy calls up MacRobertson's School or something which got like 2 ppl in. LOL SNAPPED - gotta feel pretty embarrassed for them ;)

Anyway afterwards we moved to this huge lecture hall thingo where this cool guy who came from Cambridge uni gave us all these demonstrations where he blew everything up. IT WAS SO AWESOME!! =)
This is where he adds like a drop of water to some random innocent looking powder:
BEFORE

AFTER

EVEN MORE AFTER

Woah look at the mushroom cloud erupting up =)

Next it's blowing up balloons. As in BOOM blowing up tehehe
First he lights a normal balloon. And everyone's like...psh that was pussy man xD
THEN when everyone thinks its like crappy he brings out this yellow balloon with hydrogen in it.
And lights it.
BOOM!! The whole balloon instantly vapourised and a chunk of it (turned brown) landed in my hand. The whole room like exploded and there was like this whole shock wave not of heat but just like pure force sweeping over us =O

And then just when u think it can't get any stronger, he brings out a 2 part Hydrogen, 1 part Oxygen balloon (I dunno why it doesn't react into water).
And then lights it.

BAM!!! I know it looks pretty unspectacular though. But this one was actually so freaking strong the wave of pure energy that like slammed into us was like getting palmed in the face by Big Allan. The whole ceiling of the building (which is like uber solid stone and brick) like shuddered and the room felt like it was gonna explode o__O
And the balloon instantly vapourised into powder instead this time and rained down on all of us - and everyone started coughing cause we breathed it in lol

Here's the powder that landed on my desk - crazy eh? =D

The large chunk in the bottom left quarter was from the explosion before

This is where he's got this water at -6°C: water will stay liquid as long as it isn't disturbed - these test tubes were completely clean with no dust or even scratches to stop the freezing reaction.
But by dropping in an ice cube, the entire mixture freezes as well!!! =]

And remember Bialy's tin in Year 7 science enrichment where he filled it with gas and then after burning it it would suddenly go BOOM? (Year 9s had McCready or someone for science enrichment lolololol). This guy had one of those too!

Lol spot the tin lid =D like a fireball mann

And after this we went off for tours and stuff - half of us went to Physics and the other half to Chem - where it turns out they got to make ice cream with liquid nitrogen. I want :(

But I did get to see a Sheldon Cooper clone in the physics labs!!! LOOL click on pic to enlarge it

Just in case you didn't know Sheldon's the hilarious guy from Big Bang Theory =]

Then there was this crazy machine where you shine a laser beam through all these hundreds of lenses to create some random thing called entanglement of particles or something o__O I had no idea what he was talking about...something about the universe. Anyway:

All those lenses are perfectly aligned with each other so that the laser beam shines through one which redirects the beam to another, then another, then another etcetc =O

Wooooh back on plane :)
So pretty man!

These photos were taken like 5-10 seconds apart =O

Then it was all dark:

Back to Sydney 25 min later =D


Stupid camera lag - everything looks like question marks in this picture -.-'

Down the corridor of death:

Yayyy back home =)

Then went home and nerded for NQE -____- which was so gay
But luckily they didn't test any of electricity, magnetism, light or waves which I couldn't be screwed reading =D

K SLEEPY TIME =]