LibertyBell

Got a couple of papers for you to read. The one is on superhabitable planets, planets better suited for life as we know it than Earth is. Interestingly, they are basing this on when Earth was a tropical rain forest paradise and are looking for planets warmer, wetter and larger than earth and with denser atmospheres with more oxygen. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2161 Second paper by the same group is about the likelihood of finding complex animal life on other worlds and the likelihood of finding technological life. https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/6/3/25/htm

Did any of you guys see that surprise northern lights display the other night? I was shocked that it looked so good in Cleveland but no pictures coming out of the NE. And it was only mentioned by the media after the fact.

Pacific systems dont get much attention in these parts, this is the first time I've seen such a system get attention here. Looks like the Atlantic is shut down for business? I'm shocked that the GOM has been so quiet, it's usually good for a late season event or two.

how many seasons with snowfall of 50 inches or more?

hey at least we dont have to turn the heat on

Some similarities to 2012-13 here?

Societal inertia is as much of a bitch as physical inertia! To your point about there not being enough time to be able to turn the tanker around, these slow motion disasters are of the worst kind. Going through the entirety of Asimov's sci fi the first book in the chronological history, Pebble in the Sky actually chronicled such a slow moving disaster and Asimov's solution to motivating humanity into action was to actually create another disaster, but one which was much more obvious and much faster moving. Creating this second disaster motivated humanity to make the necessary changes to save the planet. Machiavellian indeed! By the way it wasn't humans who figured out the solution to stopping a slow moving disaster was to create a much more obvious fast moving disaster to motivate humanity in order to save the planet.....it was intelligent humanoid robots. AI, gets you every time lol

Hey if it works! Brilliant! use Greed to solve Greed's problem. Now that's an interesting paradox for Theologians; is a sin a sin when the action diminishes the quality of the sin unto its self? Maybe that realization is the evidence of our current evolutionary turn? Kind of like the Showtime program "Dexter" - sending in a socio-psychopath to to essentially take out serial killers...? Or, maybe "two wrongs don't make a right" ...and "The only winning move is, not to play." It does in math though ... ( - ) * ( - ) = ( + ) ... interestingly corny little joke. Sometimes we may need to be a bit Machiavellian! I ran across something you might want to look into, a large deposit of soot was found in Antarctica and it was dated back to around 1300. It seems as though the Maoris did large scale burnings of the forests in New Zealand when they got there around that time and that was when this soot was deposited, so it certainly looks like we were wrecking the planet well before the Industrial Revolution! Also, we were talking about black holes and infinite density and such. I invite you to look at the Penrose diagrams of Kerr (spinning) black holes, which most of them are. It's very interesting - there are two event horizons and two cauchy horizons and the spinning nature of these black holes makes their singularities ring shaped not points, therefore there is a way to navigate them without being shredded apart and the inner part of them is like the eye of a hurricane, it is not infinitely dense there and may in fact be traversable (a wormhole), you have to pass through four horizons and then you make it out through the last one into the interior of another universe (or a different part of the same universe.) The interesting thing is the same research shows that the entire history of the new universe is basically recorded on the inside of this boundary (very similar to the boundary of our own universe)- which is a big indication to me that our own universe is inside a black hole inside a larger universe (and the outside of the boundary of the black hole would in turn record the entire history of this superverse.)

Octopi are sentient creatures, perhaps the closest thing we will ever see to intelligent aliens. Anyone who wants to or tries to factory farm them and eat them should be given the death penalty.

https://twitter.com/i/events/1447585651084468224 "Octopus farming is immoral, given everything we know about this highly intelligent animal" The farming of octopuses is completely at odds with everything we understand about this species and everything we know that is morally and ethically right, argues Philip Lymbery.

Meanwhile he vetoed this, which arguably is more important.....because more access to education makes for a better society. https://twitter.com/i/events/1447603839343816710 Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed the most consequential legislation to college financial aid reform in a generation. What that means for California students: For California’s higher-education system, the seemingly endless summer of good budget news came to a screeching halt when Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed the most consequential legislation to college financial aid reform in a generation. AB1456 won’t become a reality, rebuffing a Legislature that unanimously supported the legislation. It would have increased by about 150,000 the number of community college, Cal State, University of California and private college students eligible for the Cal Grant — the state’s chief financial aid program.

California bans gas lawn mowers and leaf blowers https://twitter.com/i/events/1447574858255134726

Right, I have always thought this about time and gravity. Gravity is out of place as a force and time is out of place as a dimension, so they are both the odd ones out of 4. Some significance there. Also the holographic theory holds that both gravity and time don't exist on the outer boundary of the universe and both are emergent properties that project into the bulk (where we are) from the boundary. You could imagine the universe as being inside a black hole (inside a larger universe perhaps) and the outer boundary of our universe would be the inner boundary of this black hole and that boundary would be like a movie projector, projecting reality into our universe. Space and time would both be encoded in qubits into this quantum projector, making it a quantum computer of sorts. Entanglement of qubits would be what creates space-time as pairs of particles stitch together the tapestry of reality through tiny wormholes. I do believe the universe is cyclic in both space and time and once the universe stretches out far enough it will replicate the conditions that created the original Big Bang (Bounce?) and then the universe will restart or reboot.....and that too is encoded into the boundary. The small value of the cosmological constant may be indicative of this as it slowly decreases with each reiteration of the cycle.

It's one of my favorite paintings of all time. How sad he was thought of as a nothing when he was alive, only respected by his brother, who also passed on shortly after Vincent died.

the temps level off here around noon - 1 pm, the exception is when we have dry downsloping winds on sunny days, when they overperform

On a scarier note, here is a glimpse of the future Tip mentioned..... robocop on patrol in Singapore looking to stop antisocial behavior by people. https://twitter.com/i/events/1447570072546037763

The great ones always are......remember the life and times of one Vincent Van Gogh, epitomized in the song "Vincent"

November most likely....around the time of the NYC Marathon so the timing is pretty good there.

why cant we have that happen in the summer?

Is this the warmest even for JFK which reached 90 on 10/9/90 and 95 on 10/2 a few years ago?

Rclab are you a fan of math? If you do I have something else for you to read. Octonions, 8 dimensional mathematics that may underlie all of reality. https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-octonion-math-that-could-underpin-physics-20180720/

think Friday is the last widespread 80 degree day?

not a fan of the sun eh

I look forward to the day when humanity ditches its faulty organic bodies and we have forever bodies and the super intelligence to match.

Dr Kaku is one of my favorites! I wish he got more attention than he does- he doesn't get cited nearly enough, he has some excellent papers on string theory on his site. The 0.72 figure was actually an estimate by Carl Sagan. I wonder if progress is linear or maybe we have digressed since he made that estimate? A variety of factors were used to calculate it and I don't think it's a slam dunk that the only way to go is up. Phase 1 would involve harnessing the full power of the sun, being able to precisely control the climate and weather and some other properties we aren't anywhere near. The oligarchies and the general problem of power and wealth concentrated in a very few is a major problem and the main reason we don't see progress. The only way I see out of it is a revolution and a very violent one at that. I see that in humanity's future in this century and with easy accessibility to weapons of mass destruction no matter what governments try to do to abridge rights (or perhaps because of it), I feel it is inevitable. The fact that people are in denial about the accelerating mass extinction event shows how ignorant humanity is. It started along with the industrial revolution and has only accelerated since then. I still believe a Foundation like scenario is the only way out-- instead of trying to save everyone hard choices will have to be made and only the best and brightest will be able to be saved (let's leave the oligarchy out of it, we should save only those who make big positive contributions to society, not to their own wallets.) The mass extinction event is like a tipping point or phase transition, it happens "quietly" in the background-- until it doesn't! Eventually a critical point is reached and by then it's too late and all the dominoes will fall (including humanity). Humanity is part of the environment and what we do to it we do to ourselves. The complacence caused by technology and the fossil fuel cartels which dumb down humanity with their propaganda is definitely like an addictive drug and the awakening will be rude when people have no choice but to awaken from their stupor. The Fermi Paradox with the Great Filter lying ahead of us is the only outcome that makes sense to me in this context. Since you brought up fractals, which I love (I see fractals in all aspects of nature and humanity is part of nature so.....), I was wondering if you read the classic sci fi story Past, Present and Future. I think you would love it, it touches on many of these points and the peak of humanity's original thinking which actually occurred during the days of the ancient Greeks according to some. It's available for free download in various formats here https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20170467