Revised Personal Statement

            Looking up the bright sun shining in hues of crimson red, golden yellow, and orange; feeling the rays on my face I can’t help but smile at how good it feels to have the warmth touches every part of my face, body, and arms. But what happen when that heat gets too hot, as hot as an explosion blowing off my limbs. The scorching pain and throbbing feelings of your nerves severed and torn off. Afraid that no matter where you step there are always a random chance that you may step on a bomb. You don’t even know the statistics because you don’t know how many bombs there are or what areas they are implanted. Confused and scared are what drives your life when you walk down the streets in landmine infested countries. The use of technology are limited when it comes to the process of detecting landmines, but that doesn’t limit to what technology can do to assist to solving the problem.

            Landmines are such delicate device operated with a panel and pin that triggers the bomb. The slightest pressure on the right spot can trigger the pin and lighting the fuse to explode into hundreds of shards attacking its surroundings. Painful yes, what the problem is right now is detecting these well hidden devices but technology may not be the solution needed to find them. A man named Bart have trained rats to sniff and locate various mines in large fields. Such a revolution in the progress of this struggle to clear mine fields, and technology wasn’t the one that would further the progress of detection and disassembling these threats. However that doesn’t mean that they are still for naught. There are various ways that these technology can still assist with the struggle.

            As an engineer I know that there are still countless uses for technology that can always be helpful in any occasions. We still use vehicles, metal detectors, and even phones and radars to locate people and to transport from one spot to the next. I believe we can further technologies use capacity to even greater extent and become more beneficial for our uses. Like to limit the blast radius of disarming landmines to prevent further destruction from a detonation. I believe that although technology wasn’t the main tide turner for the progress of mine clearance, its use is still a huge factor for any kind of occasions. Nevertheless technology is still our greatest assets and will always be needed.

            Although not directly, I know that an improvement in technology doesn’t hurt to help further the assistance for other people and various modes of things. Per say if cars were to travel at much quicker speeds than the travel time between one areas to the next is shorter, thus allowing more time to actually clearing more fields. Or even a suit that was created to limit damage taken from a blast, imagine how many lives would be saved, and image how safe the procedure may actually become. This can result in more volunteers to come join the cause since they would know that they are now in safer hands.

            I believe that despite anything, technology is still a big factor for everything. Although it can’t do major things such as delivering a baby, or understand the needs of humans, and in this case disarm a landmine, it still has very help attributes that prove useful for any cause. When it comes to delivering a baby it can measure the heart rate the mother’s heart is giving out. For the needs of humans it may not understand what our problem is but it can help monitor our behavior. And in terms of the landmine battle, it probably can’t disarm a mine but it is still helpful when it comes to traveling from field to field, or detecting them. Nevertheless no matter what, technology is there to be by our side.