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[spam][ot][rambling][crazy] Building a Spaceship Out Of Something Ridiculously Weak and Flimsy
by Karl 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

I like to daydream around hard challenges. I don't know how to build a spaceship. But maybe it would be fun to try. To make it harder, let's make it out of only something ridiculously hard to do it with, like toilet paper, or leaves, or old newspapers. I don't know what kinds of problems one runs into when building a spaceship, but when I start planning it I think the first problem will be getting something to go really, really far against gravity. Another problem I hear about is burning up as you accelerate through the atmosphere. I imagine aiming what direction you go in is pretty hard too. I'm thinking I'm probably okay with there being some guidance computers and robotics on the craft, but that we would _mostly_ make it out of tissue paper or whatnot. Making computers out of tissue paper can be considered a separate problem, for now. One way to make tissue paper move is to burn it. Could we use a tissue-paper-fueled rocket to accelerate the craft? Almost certainly not, but doing the calculations for this could inform what thing to consider next. I have no idea how to make a rocket, or how rockets work, but I imagine that when you burn something, it turns into gas, and the expansion of the gas is much larger than the thing you burned, so if you direct this gas in some direction or another, it might push something further. I dunno. Like getting up from a chair because of a fire you sat in. Maybe? I dunno. Maybe I'll briefly websearch for "solid fuel rocket" and see what I get. Oh, great, this is a very well-studied thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-propellant_rocket . I'll read the "Basic Concepts" section. Huh, they mix the fuel with oxidizer in advance. Early rockets couldn't be turned off, after being ignited, until they burned up. Anyway mixing the fuel with the oxidizer would make design _so_ much easier. I wonder how thrust is calculated. I'll click around some. I'm saving this as a draft. The 'cocky' attitude I post with on this list is an affect. However, I'm noticing that posting this, it appears that I might only need knowledge to accomplish things, which could scare people wanting to control me. Maybe that's why it is so hard to do even the smallest thing in my life. Unsure. Also unsure why I post. So, draft. --- this draft was written 3 days ago. it's now 2021-12-01 and i'm sending some drafts just for consistency I guess. glancing through this, i'd kind of rather not send it, maybe because it's kind of in a certain uncanny valley of sanity. (the uncanny valley is where something ineffable is clearly wrong, but it looks pretty good by everything you can describe). but here it is!

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[spam][ot][rambling][crazy] Building a Spaceship Out Of Something Doubly Infeasible: was Weak and Flimsy
by Karl 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Let's consider whether we might build a spaceship out of _water_. Not only will it be made out of water, it will be built and launched _underwater_.

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Human Wood
by professor rat 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

65 million Americans who could be vaccinated, who are not, and that is more than enough human wood for this coronavirus forest fire to burn," warns virus expert Michael Osterholm. "And so what we’ve seen happen throughout the world, where basically we don’t get a large proportion of our population vaccinated, we see these surges, some countries are now in their fifth surge, where cases go up and they come down. https://www.eatthis.com/news-people-covid-first-symtpoms/

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automatic media transcription with youtube was: Re: Mi6 Talk
by Karl 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

> youtube-dlc --skip-download --write-auto-sub --all-subs > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDGV7LScLp0 > wget > https://gist.githubusercontent.com/glasslion/b2fcad16bc8a9630dbd7a945ab5ebf… this appears to be a python2 script. (my system uses python2 by default still.) so, > for vttsub in *.vtt > do > # convert each language to a transcription > python vtt2text.py "$vttsub" && rm "$vttsub" python2 vtt2text.py "$vttsub" && rm "$vttsub" > done I've forked vtt2text.py to resolve this issue and to handle multiple files, so here's a better script: youtube-dlc --skip-download --write-auto-sub --all-subs YOUTUBE_URL wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/xloem/f7ecb8668c14ef07718b4d3447ebe9a2/r… -O vtt2text.py python3 vtt2text.py *.vtt && rm *.vtt

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Calls for a " Carter Doctrine ' on computer chips
by professor rat 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

If KGB Russia and red-fascist China keep attacking internet infrastructure in space then that means WW3. They want the roles of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan so it should end like WW2. Taiwan is the center for advanced semiconductor production; the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) boasts that it has the most advanced foundry in the world. Chinese control of TSMC would provide it enormous economic benefit and would result in the world being dependent on an authoritarian regime for advanced semiconductors — and all that would mean for the integrity of supply chains. Advanced semiconductors are the petroleum of the digital age. America must not let an authoritarian regime bent on supplanting the United States seize these vital production facilities. https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/582767-america-must-prepare-f… The Carter Doctrine recognized Middle East oil access was key to US national security. Now the whole world can see internet access is key to the whole earths security. To Hell with those foolish enough to mess with the net.

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Mi6 Talk
by Digitalfolklore 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Human Intelligence in a Digital Age https://archive.org/details/human-intelligence-in-a-digital-age-speech-by-r… VH

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[spam][crazy][personal][spam][crazy]
by Karl 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

After the great pre-alpha release of libtoiletbacksupontoyourshoes, I thought i'd try another project this morning. librubberhosebreakfast ! it's 0834 ET on 2021-11-30 . it's now 0837 and i've left my sleeping bag in record time, but i'm kind of confused around what i'm doing. more planning could help next time, just a little. Its 0854. Today is pretty warm. I'm so excited about having started libripyourmusclesout that I'm just spending time appreciating my progress. libreachforthesky! libeverybodylaughsatyou is making headway. next steps. 0856 . its 0858 and things are reasonable. Maybe not call it "lib" if it's not a library project, dunno, what i'm used to I guess. 0931 very warm day --- it's now 2021-12-01 and i'm sending some drafts off. after my success starting my day by pretending it was writing a library, I then had trouble writing a library and slept indoors against my preference the following night. i'm back outdoors now, 0319 et.

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Quantum physicist David Deutsch bags Isaac Newton medal and Prize – Physics World
by jim bell 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

https://physicsworld.com/quantum-physicist-david-deutsch-bags-isaac-newton-…

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Mark Meadows news is huge and overwhelmingly positive news
by professor rat 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Could give new life to the Grassy Knoll. "...the indictment of Steve Bannon, and the threat of indictment against Meadows, have worked. Meadows has caved. Another witness, Ali Alexander, announced over the weekend that he’s cooperating because he doesn’t want to end up in prison. https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/mark-meadows-is-now-cooperating-with-…

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Shall we gather in the meadows?
by professor rat 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Cryptoanarchy wants to run wild, naked and free over the sundappled uplands of direct-democracy. Why don't the cyber-liberty crowd take their permissionless, decentralized scarcity and shove it up their e-gold-plated-krugerand arse? This Big Dog bs is ready for a Mitt-Romney chauffeured ride to the deep North. Cryptoanarchist enough technology is worthless without a revolutionary anarchist narrative driving it. Too weakminded to even be dangerous. Good riddance to Jackass Jack Dorsey and that Jackass dollar-friendly dog of a stock he rode in on. Meadows cooperating with January 6 investigators CNN 1 hour ago Another one bites the dust.

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