Week 3- Treasure Hunt

In the week three tutorial, in relation to this weeks topic, I was sent on a treasure hunt. No, not around the Gold Coast, not even around the university, a place much larger and frightening; the world wide web. I was not in search of precious jewels or gold, instead concepts much more random and mundane, for example, the quickest way to contact Ozzy Osbourne. So for all those tuned in, read ahead for a brief run down of my findings from my treasure hunt.



When asked to find the weight of the world's largest machine I found a machine so large it was overwhelming, not to mention its resemblance to a spider. The Bagger 288 is the world's largest digging machine, more specifically a mining machine sitting at 95m tall. It weights a hefty 13,500 tons and was designed and built my the German over 5 years and cost approximately $100 million

(http://www.bukisa.com/articles/40463_worlds-largest-machines-ever-built, 10-08-10).

I was then required to find the easiest, quickest and most reliable way to contact Ozzy Osbourne (for all those Sabbath fans out there). While I began searching the net and found the contact details for his manager, also being his wife Sharon, it occurred to me that Twitter would most definitely be the easiest way (https://twitter.com/OfficialOzzy, 10-08-10).

Unfortunately I found the third question somewhat difficult to answer.

When asked to find the cheapest form of travel from the Gold Coast to Melbourne I found that Tiger Air ways are offering $78 one way tickets inclusive of tax and fees. (http://www.airfaresflights.com.au/flights/Gold%20Coast/Melbourne-MEL/, 10-08-10)

I was then asked to find out a little bit about a character named Hatsune Miku. I found her to be the first installment in Vocaloid Character Vocal series in 2007, a Japanese owned software. Her birthday is the 31 August http://myanimelist.net/character/7156/Miku_Hatsune, 10-08-10).

I maganged to come across the following live webcam in Antartica, based at the Australia Casey Station http://www.aad.gov.au/asset/webcams/casey/default.asp. I also then looked into places to stay in Antarctica and found something quite different. Instead of staying in your typical hotels when travelling, Jarrod Kyte runs small cruises around the country in order to allow for an exceptional travel experience and also adhere to a number of environmental concerns (http://www.peregrineadventures.com/10-08-10)

I was then required to explore the Australian pop charts of the past 30 years and find the top song of this week in 1980.

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When asked to define nano technology in my own terms, I assumed I must first research this unfamiliar topic. After exploring a couple of websites focuses on the subject I have come to the conclusion that nano technology is the study of the controlling of extremely minute matter (http://www.crnano.org/whatis.htm, 10-08-10).

I then began to enquire about the camera utilised in 'Google Street View'. I found the camera used to get that 360 degree image was this fairly disco ball esque camera.

(http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9724604-1.html, 10-08-10)

I was then asked to translate all of the questions in front of me into Klingon, a language I was certainly not familiar with. However, on the web a person can find pretty much anything, even without Google. While I may have impressed you with my picture uploading skills, i haven't mastered the art of copy and paste on Blogger just yet, translating every question would, therefore be extremely time consuming typing every question is Klingon. So here is the first two question translated into perfect Klingon- fictional language of a warrior race in Star Trek.

1. What is the weight of the worlds heaviest machine? How much did it cost?

nuq 'oH vo' chay' 'arta'ta 'oH Daq chen

2. What is the best way (quickest and most reliable) to contact Ozzy Osbourne?

nuq 'oH HochHom Daq Ozzy Osbourne

(http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=9025, 10-08-10)

After a few grueling hours on the internet I have successfully completed this treasure hunt with the exception of a few questions.