Gold Digga!!

Week 3 Treasure Hunt

Answer these questions without using Google or Wikipedia, and then write your answers in an entry in your blog. Provide the URL (with the date you accessed it) of where you found the answer, and include extras like images, embedded videos, etc.


1. What is the weight of the world’s biggest machine? How much did it cost to build?
The weight of the world's biggest machine is Bagger 288 which is the world's largest digging machine. It weights 45,500 tons which is equivalent to a bumper to bumper of jeeps 80 miles long and cost $100 million dollars to make.

http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Workshop/Trencher.htm


2. What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Ozzy Osborne?
You can contact ozzy osborne through his manager or through his twitter page. However if you are a crazy ass psycho stalker then best way to contact him is hop on a plane to LA and go to his home....

Ozzy Osbourne's Manager:
Sharon Osbourne
Sharon Osbourne Management
9292 Civic Center Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Phone: 310-859-7761

or

http://twitter.com/OfficialOzzy

http://famous-relationships.topsynergy.com/Ozzy_Osbourne/Contact.asp


3. When and what was the first example of global digital communication?
The first global digital communication was obviously the internet. However it wasn't the first digital communication device invented, it was the Morsecode. The internet was the first digital communication system gone global. Even though the internet had been invented since the 1960's, it was until the early 1990's that the internet really took off and became really popular.

http://www.wrvmuseum.org/morsecode/morsecodehistory.htm)


4. What is the cheapest form of travel from the Gold Coast to Melbourne?
The cheapest form of travel to Melbourne from the sunny place Gold Coast is by a plane. It would only cost you $73 a ticket, one way of course, to get there and this is with Tiger Airways. Obviously is you want leather seats and a baby free zone then you will need to pay more cause Tiger Airways is usually catered for families with 6 - 20 kids and have never heard of contraceptive pills or the really really old angry folks who always think their number one.

http://www.flightcentre.com.au/travel/product/1032390?WT.srch=1&gclid=CJTp__qxtqMCFROnbwod8Q47ag


5. Who is Hatsune Miku? What company does she belong to? What is her birthday?
Hatsune Miku is a voice synthesizer application created by a company called Crypton Future Media, her voice was created from a voice sample of Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita who was born on October 19th 1984.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/miku-hatsune-vocaloid


6. Find a live webcam in Antarctica. Find a place to stay in Antarctica.
Live webcam - http://www.antarctica.gov.au/webcams/mawson
Place to stay - http://www.selectlatinamerica.co.uk/destinations/antarctica/accommodation


7. What song was top of the Australian pop charts this week in 1980?
The number one song during this period of the mullets and puffy sleeved dresses was the song "Call Me" sung by the band Blondie.

http://mag.weddingcentral.com.au/music/songs/songs1980.htm


8. How would you define the term 'nano technology'? In your own words, what does it really mean?
Nanotechnology is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale. This covers both current work and concepts that are more advanced

http://www.crnano.org/basics.htm


9. What type of camera is used to make ‘Google Street View’?
The type of camera Google use to make their "View Googled Street" is a Dodeca 2360 Camera System and was created and designed by a company called 'Immersive Media'


10. Translate these questions into Klingon.
Q1: nuq 'oH [the] [weight] vo' [the] [world’s] [biggest] [machine] chay' 'ar ta'ta' 'oH [cost] Daq chen

Q2: nuq 'oH [the] [best] [way] [quickest] HochHom [reliable] Daq [contact] [Ozzy] [Osborne]

Q3: ghorgh 'ej nuq ghaHta' [the] wa'DIch [example] vo' [global] [digital] [communication]

Q4: nuq 'oH [the] [cheapest] [form] vo' [travel] vo' [the] SuD baS [Coast] Daq [Melbourne]

Q5: 'Iv 'oH [Hatsune] [Miku] nuq [company] ta'taH ghaH [belong] Daq nuq 'oH Daj qoS

Q6: tu' [a] yIn [webcam] Daq [Antarctica] tu' [a] Daq Daq [stay] Daq [Antarctica]

Q7: nuq bom ghaHta' [top] vo' [the] [Australian] [pop] [charts] vam [week] Daq

Q8:chay' [would] SoH [define] [the] [term] ['nano] [technology'] Daq lIj ghaj mu'mey nuq ta'taH 'oH [really] [mean]

Q9: nuq [type] vo' [camera] 'oH [used] Daq chenmoH [‘Google] [Street] [View’]

Q10: [Translate] Dochvammey [questions] Daq tlhIngan

http://www.mrklingon.org/