Day Two: YAY AT HOTEL

Okay, so today we finally got to Florida's Cocoa Beach after another 7 hours of driving to here. We first checked out our hotel (Raddison Resort at the Port) and swam in the pool. Before we went swimming here, we went to Cocoa Beach and I swam in the Atlantic Ocean. The cool thing was that I never touched nor seen an ocean in real life before. So that was a first. Then we checked out the hot tub at the pool. It was really hot! It was cut short by thunder, so yeah. Next stop, KSC!

Day One: DRIVING WAS FUN I GUESS

Okay, so today, as you might know, I'm driving to Florida for a cruise and other stuff. Basically all today was was dedicated to driving. We went through a teeny tiny bit of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. There were these GIGANTIC mountains that looked like hills in Tennessee, and there was even a scenic view sign. We ate at a Chick-fil-a for lunch, and some Mexican restaurant for dinner. Right now, I'm in a Red Roof in Atlanta, Georgia and right now, the toilet doesn't work. I really hope I won't be sleeping and then all of a sudden "BLARGPPPP" comes out of the bathroom and scares the crap out of me. So yeah. Fun.

THREE DAYS

Three days until I go go Flordia! I'm going on Monday and stuff, and it will be fun! I'm going to write a blog and other awesomeness while I'm there so stay tuned! So today, I'm writing about how I can't wait for it and I might watch a Disney movie! Anyways, we are going on a car ride so its going to take a while to get there. We are going to USO (Universal Studios Orlando) and WDW! It will be so much fun!

Is Pluto A Planet?

Copyright 2016

Should Pluto Be A Planet?

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Pluto: we all know it’s controversial wonders and how NASA, in 2006, announced to the world that Pluto is not classified as a planet anymore, but rather a dwarf planet. Lots of people were unsurprisingly angered by the news, while others were satisfied. But why were some of those people satisfied? I’m Ty Kennedy, and I’m going to tell you why people were satisfied and why Pluto shouldn’t be a planet.

DID YOU KNOW?

Pluto was named Pluto by an eleven year old girl in Oxford, England in 1931.

WHY SHOULDN’T PLUTO BE A PLANET?

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First, let’s talk about it’s highly elliptical orbit. It travels around the Sun in a “squashed circle”. In fact, Pluto’s orbit is so elliptical that it occasionally switches places with Neptune. This means (if Pluto was considered a planet) that Neptune would be at one point the eighth planet farthest from the Sun and later the ninth planet farthest from the Sun. Plus, it takes 248 years to orbit the Sun, longer than any other planet by far. And, Pluto orbits in the Kuiper Belt, a type of asteroid belt.

It’s size is very small. Compared to other planets, Pluto is dwarfed by every single one. In the Kuiper Belt, astronomers have found bigger dwarf planets, like Eris, which has about 28% more mass than the mass of Pluto. Even so, Eris has never been considered a planet. Pluto is 600 miles wide, while Mars, our smallest planet (so far), is 4,222 miles wide.

Some people say that Pluto should be a planet because we have gotten satellites there. That doesn’t mean that Pluto should be a planet. We have gotten satellites everywhere, but that doesn’t mean they’re planets. That’s like saying the Sun is a planet because we have taken pictures of it, when the Sun is classified as a star. Satellites don’t ever matter when counting distance as a planet, and neither do rovers.

When I was little, my mom told me NASA stated Pluto wasn’t a planet anymore. At that time, I was upset. Now, I understand why Pluto isn’t a planet anymore. There’s a highly elliptical orbit, the size is way too small, and even though there’s satellites, that doesn’t mean it’s considered a planet. Those are the reasons why I personally think Pluto isn’t a planet.

Stopping ISIS Minus The War

Almost every week, you probably hear something about ISIS. You most likely heard about the Paris attacks and how refugees are leaving Syria and Iraq from war. But why is ISIS attacking? Well, they just want to attack. No other reason. These types of groups are the only reason that make other people think that all Muslims are war-loving freaks. But they’re not. I, myself, have many Muslim friends that are very kind and never dream of war. They even dream of stopping ISIS. But how can we stop ISIS without killing many innocent people, from our side and their side? Hi! I’m Ty Kennedy, and this is why we shouldn’t go to war.

HOW CAN WE STOP ISIS?

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First off, we need to know a few things. Number one, ISIS is putting us in danger and, number two, fighting ISIS is too risky. There are even better ways to stop ISIS. We’ll get to that later. Let’s start off with number one first.

If we go to war, we are putting thousands of U.S. soldiers in danger of injury and even death. ISIS’s defense is too strong for us. We cannot set foot into Syria. Iran even warned the military by saying that they are going to “return to their country in a wooden coffin”. Starting a war would make it so that ISIS would target our country more than others. This would put our country at greater risk to live in and put U.S. citizens in danger. According to Phyllis Bennis, writer of Portside’s How To Combat ISIS Without War, war would kill hundreds of innocent Iraqi and Syrian citizens. Many people would be at risk of death from air strikes, grenades, guns, etc. Clearly, a war would kill and injure many innocent people.

Our military isn’t preparing well. ISIS could be stopped in one month, but the military is too scared. This means that the U.S. Military isn’t ready for war yet. ISIS has stronger defense than the U.S. Military does. This means soldiers have to prepare really well to fight ISIS. According to Nick Paton of CNN, “There is no easy answer to war.” War isn’t easy. War isn’t the greatest way to stop ISIS. But that leads to another question: What is?

There are better ways to stop ISIS. Dipping your toe in the water, similar to taunting ISIS, isn’t the best answer and is making the U.S. a bigger target. This means that taunting ISIS will make them mad and kill more people. ISIS shouldn’t be degraded, nor destroyed, but rather defeated. Max Boot of Newsweek states, “Impose a no-fly zone over part or all of Syria.” This means that less innocent people will be killed.

Some people think that ISIS can easily be beaten by war. Why? We have killed many ISIS members. However, there is a problem. We haven’t killed the strongest members of the team. ISIS is still hard to beat.

So, with all that said, we have to stop ISIS without starting a whole nother war like the one we are in. ISIS will makes us a bigger target, the military isn’t preparing well, and there are better ways to stop ISIS. To the military, don’t waste your time on war, try to do something else to stop ISIS. Take action and don’t post about starting wars on social media. Also, don’t vote for Donald Trump if he wants to start a war.

TIMOOOOO

Yesterday, we had another pinata. Yay. Oh yeah, and Timo was crazy, like in this vine.

https://vine.co/v/idLO2F7KWQn

What happens is Timo decides to throw a rocket ship off the stairs, acting like the bottom part goes back to earth, and the top part is in space. He got in a lot of trouble for it. My grandpa and Karen all yelled at him. The second part is him trying to get Cameron unstuck. He was at the back of the couch between the wall and the couch. It was pretty funny!

Canada

Yesterday, my mom said we were going to Greektown but took me to Canada for some "idk" reason. We went to a drug store to stock up on Kinder Eggs. Kinder Eggs are these eggs banned for selling in the US. They have toys inside and are banned for choking hazards. After that, we went to Mastermind Toys and looked around. They had a 3000 dollar elephant that was the size of an elephant. So cool! Anyways, we actually did eat at Greektown for lunch. It was so fun!

VINE AGAIN

Okay, Gasoleen liked 3 of my vines. I'm serious. For those of you who don't know, Gasoleen is the person who made that "FR E SH A VOCA DO" vine that currently has 13,000,000 loops on vine. I used that fresh avocado thing in 3 vines and got so far 400 loops thanks to her. YAY! So thank you, Gasoleen, for doing that. Oh yeah, same to it's just luke. K THANKS BI

https://vine.co/v/iwQZilZnOZE

Timo

Okay, so I was with Timo again. He was sorta crazy. I was at the BCS Blast, and I got a lot of things. I got a Game Stop gift card, a sno-cone maker, and a bunch of other stuff. When I got home, Timo was shaking this pinball machine and throwing it at the wall. Really weird. And then Cameron started that. And then he cried because he couldn't smash my sno-cone maker. Fun.

Stuff

Ok, so if you don't know, I'm getting ready for a trip coming up soon. I might of given you the itinerary. The cruise is coming up soon. I get to eat fancy dinners, do stuff, do other stuff, and go on a drop slide. I'm not new to drop slides, though. I've been on one at Zhender's (probably one of my fav's waterslides). The floor drops and you go falling down and DIE. Not really, I'm just getting your nerves up. LOOOL. Okay, bye!

Birocratic

So, I recently got into this musician named Birocratic. He makes chill hip-hop songs. Most of his songs are instrumental, with some added vocals. He makes really chill music, so you can relax while listening to him on the beach. My favorite song, Samething, could be in actual hip-hop. He's really good at music. Enjoy his songs!

Gaze

Hey! I'm making a book! And it's getting published! The book is called Gaze, and it's a supernatural horror book. Here's an excerpt from it! Enjoy!


Gaze

By Ty Kennedy



Prologue


On a cold night, two friends, Alex and Tom, approach Middleton High School to work on their basketball techniques for the tournament coming up soon.

As they enter the doors, a slight creaking noise and some dust that has never appeared before comes in sight. Of course, Alex doesn't think of anything wrong, and neither does Tom.

They walk through the narrow hallway filled with trophies and, occasionally, a few staff lockers.  As they walk closer to the gym, Alex stops and stares into the distance, like he just got turned to stone by Medusa. Tom cannot sense the slightest movement and backs away from the inhuman-like stance that Alex presents. Alex finally blinks after a mere 30 seconds and starts moving like nothing ever happened. He walks casually towards the gym while Tom is still frightened and starts to also stare in the distance, but only for a moment.

Tom runs up to Alex and asks him about what just happened. Alex says he never remembered standing still while answering in a confused way. Tom replies with an "Okay then" and goes opens the door.

As they walk into the gym, Alex senses something is wrong just as the doors slam shut. Too fast. Alex and Tom's eyes widen in shock. Alex gags and Tom nearly faints.

They both catch a long glimpse of something they were never supposed to see, something beyond strange and horrid, something no man or woman could even have the abilities to even try doing, something that could only be possible by the devil himself.

Alex is pinned to the wall, being dragged upward to the ceiling of the 40 feet tall gym and hears a faint voice say, "YOU WILL TELL NO ONE." The last thing Alex sees is him falling down the 40 feet gym and hitting the ground. Alex isn't hurt, however. His eyes are forced shut, same to his mouth, and the only thing he can do is make a muffled whisper. He then just lays still, hopeless, not able to move anything.

All of a sudden, the horrible image fades, and Alex and Tom are able to open their eyes again. They can't remember anything and start practicing basketball like nothing happened.

When it's time to go, they both leave the gym only to find that the trophies and exit signs have been cracked and left on the floor, and the garbage cans have been lodged into the walls. All their memories come back into place and are now terrified.

They hear a loud bang and start to bolt towards the door, only to find it locked. Alex smashes the door about 6 times, with no luck.

Tom rushes to the other hallway, finally finding another door that opens perfectly.

Tom runs back to Alex, only to see that Alex is on the floor, half dead. Tom swears and drags Alex to the other door, but now that door seems to be hard to open now.

Tom bangs the now heavy door a few times, getting closer to it being open every time. On his last hit, the door cleanly opens. Too clean.

Tom still has lots of force left, sending them flying to the bottom of the long flight of stairs that led to the school.

Minecraft

I made this SUPER long parkour map on Minecraft called The Dungeon. It involves tripwire and dispensers dispensing splash potions, ladder jumps, lava jumps, other jumps, speed jumps, and even a setting in the nether. I made it easy so it is capable of making five year olds not rage quit. Yay! 3 people randomly joined my server at school today. I had it in survival, so that's a first. If you see my map up (Adventure Parkour), join it and try to beat it!

Birmingham

I went back to Beyond Juice. And then Adventures and Toys. And I found a thinking putty kit I REALLY want. I then went to Rojo and checked out the dogs. Then we went to the BEST CAFE EVER!! They had these macaroons that were so good! And the Wild Strawberry Torte was AMAZING! You need to go to Birmingham and check it out!

Trickshot

Alright, back on my mom's computer. Yay. #somuchfun. Anyways, I went to Zhenders again. I mostly played basketball, but I got this amazing trickshot in the hoop. There's 3 basketball hoops in the Atrium Waterpark, and the hoop closest to the lazy river was where I shot it. I bounced the ball off the backboard of that hoop and the ball traveled to the 3rd and last hoop, about a 75 degree angle away, and swished it. Two other people were trying to do it at the time, and I was the first one to do it. "I am so proud of me! I done good." #totallynotbeingsarcastic!

JORDAN IS CUMIN BAK

Hey, I'm not on my mom's computer anymore! But I'm not on my laptop, either. I'm on my school Chromebook. Yay.


Remember when I said Jordan (my old friend) was moving to Maine? Yeah, I never posted that but that;s what basically happened in 4th grade. He's finally coming back (when I'm in 6th grade) and we are going to do stuff...totally normal stuff. So, when he comes, we are going to Zhender's (AGAIN) and it should be fun! Yay to Jordan!

Not-Yo-Popcorn

A long time ago (about a month ago), in a galaxy really close away (aka ours), a group of four kids decided, “Hey! I want good popcorn! All these flavors are bland and sucky!” and then, out of the blue, a random voice said, “How about we make our own really weird combos of popcorn! Then we won’t need to eat this dumb popcorn!” Everyone said yes and thus started a company called, ‘Not-Yo-Popcorn’. Yay.

Not-Yo-Popcorn is a company (not yet unless we get your help) that makes wacky flavors that may taste bad or good, depending on your palate. The thing that makes the popcorn different from other popcorn is that it is healthy for you. We use reduced fat products and spices with many vital ingredients for keeping you healthy.  It is perfect for kids.

You can try our Sweet Section, which is basically something for the sweet tooth. Try our 4th of July popcorn, which is a combination of pop rocks and basically firecracker popcorn. Or you can try Sweet Dreams, a combination of red velvet, cake batter and ice cream sundae popcorn. Christmas time and you have nothing to eat? Try Peppermint Delight, a combination of chocolate mint and peppermint popcorn.

Going for something a little bit more manly? Try our Man Up section! You can try our most famous popcorn, the famous Nacho Popcorn (that's where we got our name from) which is just Nacho Popcorn!  Want to try something more dangerous? Try our Scared Straight Popcorn, which is some of the spiciest popcorn around!

THIS IS NOT-YO-POPCORN!

Vine

Okay, so my vines aren't that popular, but one day, it's just luke liked one of my vines. That made my loops go higher than normal (aka 234 loops), and now I have 290 followers. Yay! That vine is right here (swear words included)....

https://vine.co/v/igXz9QuHMd6

That gave me the idea to do this vine of me falling with Bruno Mars's "Treasure" in the background.

https://vine.co/v/igX3OuidBVH

Anyways, go check them out, enjoy them, and if you have an account, follow me at it's just ty!

IDKNOMORE

Ok Timo. Again.



It wasn't Timo birthday on Sunday. Nor was his birthday party on Sunday. Sooooo, I'm just gonna explain what happened on Sunday. Timo was whining for chocolate the whole time, and when he didn't get chocolate, he made a humph noise and ran away forever. When he finally came back, the same thing happened again. Then Cameron joined and became a monster (literally) and tried to bite everyone. It wasn't that crazy (thank god) and I'm alive if you didn't know. Yay!