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Using computers for discovery - Coggle Diagram
Using computers for discovery
Predicting natural disasters
Earthquakes
seismologists use
Sensors
to detect movement in the earth
Satellite images
of the earth
Supercomputers will
Weather forecasting
Meteorologists can predict hurricanes
Supercomputers
A supercomputer can process huge amounts of data very quickly
Two parts to predicting
The weather data
Satellites
Space discovery
Life on Mars
Robots explore planets
Were supposed to work for 90 days
2004
Opportunity worked for 15 years
Robots explorers did not find
Life on mars
Spirit robot explorer
Eagle landing
1996: first landing on the moon
Apollo missions
Safe
The reason why Apollo missions were safe and succesfull was the Apollo Guidance Computer
AGC
This was built specialy to guide spacecraft to the moon and back
Medical discovery
Computer models
Used to develop new
drugs and other treatments
Predict the effect
That new treatments will have on patients
Animal and human testing
Before a new drug can be used, it must be tested on a small group of humans to check it is safe
Dugs are usually tasted on animals
Clinical trial
Are usually safe but can be dangerous for the people involved
DNA
Calculations and data that DNA involves has only been possible using computers
Has led to many important medical discoveries in the 21st century