Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Monday, January 13, 2020
Can This Deadly New Virus Destroy the Human Race?
Many of the recent scary diseases have come from China, which makes sense given the large population base and population density. More than half the world's population lives within a circle in Southern Asia including China and India.
https://youtu.be/-Jhz0pVSKtI
https://youtu.be/-Jhz0pVSKtI
Friday, January 3, 2020
This Guy Eats Fruit For The First Time Ever
I think that this guy had some obsessive disorder against fruit. People have different tastes, which is obvious because there are a handful of foods that I can't stand. I don't like Tapioca and Rice pudding because of the texture. If I could get over my hangup over the texture I would probably enjoy their sweetness. I feel the same way about sauerkraut, although the taste has much to do with it. Foods that are too acidic taste kind of gross, like hot and sour soup which I can barely tolerate. I don't like weird breads like Rye, and I don't like blue cheese dressing because it tastes bitter to me.
Playing Meme Music on a $10 MILLION Dollar Violin
The only thing I think is interesting here is that a violin would be worth 10 million dollars.
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
Friday, December 27, 2019
Thursday, December 26, 2019
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Monday, December 23, 2019
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Monday, December 16, 2019
Sunday, December 15, 2019
Ringworld - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworld
Just finished the audiobook for this on YouTube. Great book. https://youtu.be/4DMkDqIjEuI
I read the novel around 30 years ago. The YouTube version of this is a little uneven on quality. I suspect that it was copied from audio tape.
I already have listened to the next two books on Audible. I may listen to them again. I started with the 4 prequels on Audible and I'm slowly working my way through the entire series.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
Friday, December 13, 2019
Monday, November 25, 2019
Friday, November 22, 2019
Ringworld Audiobook
I'm going to highly recommend this audiobook. I read the 1970 book about 30 years ago, but now I find the audiobook to be a delight to listen to.
This is the most famous and most award-winning of about 40 books that take place in the "Known Space" Universe created by Larry Niven. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known_Space
Other recordings of this book have been removed from youtube, most likely for copyright reasons. This particular recording seems odd and not particularly the best quality, as if it was copied from audiotapes and maybe from more than one source. The quality is not consistent. You can barely hear some background interference like it is being copied from tapes.
However, I wasn't bothered by the inconsistency of the recording. The story is so good that I really enjoyed listening to it.
There are four recent prequels to this novel in the "Fleet of Worlds" series, which are not a prerequisite, but a delight to listen to. I paid Audible to listen to those.
Monday, October 21, 2019
Is Time Travel Impossible?
https://youtu.be/pGnMiGrYmPE
I still have a problem with "space-time" as a unified thing. This leads to conclusions like time didn't exist before the Big Bang, which I find highly questionable. However, Special Relativity depends upon it. In order for space-time to not exist, we would need a completely different model of the universe.
I still have a problem with "space-time" as a unified thing. This leads to conclusions like time didn't exist before the Big Bang, which I find highly questionable. However, Special Relativity depends upon it. In order for space-time to not exist, we would need a completely different model of the universe.
Friday, October 11, 2019
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Monday, September 30, 2019
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Sunday, September 1, 2019
The Egg
This is a nice fairy tale, but I don't buy it. This seems like an odd mix of pantheism, Hinduism, and Mormonism to create something unique.
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Monday, August 19, 2019
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Monday, August 12, 2019
Thursday, August 8, 2019
Friday, July 5, 2019
Why I believe in UFOs, and you should too... | Ben Mezrich | TEDxBeaconStreet
I'm extremely skeptical. There is a real lack of evidence.
The distances between stars are so vast that the energy requirements for interstellar travel are by our standards almost infinite. The cost of the moon program in modern dollars was around a hundred billion dollars. Sending little robots to Mars costs several billion dollars. Any kind of interstellar program would cost at least a trillion dollars. It is not about money. It is about resources required, either by us or by another civilization, which are enormous.
There are also practical considerations. Space is very radioactive making it impractical for travel. It takes a great deal of effort to keep humans alive in space. Also, anything moving faster than 1% the speed of light is in danger of being obliterated by a grain of sand that happens to be in the way. At 10% the speed of light, the super thin interstellar gasses, although almost non-existent, are enough to create considerable resistance. I have heard that it would difficult to go any faster than this.
For this reason, if I were designing an interstellar craft, I would make it shaped like a giant needle with it being very thin. I don't know if this is practical.
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