Author: Richard K Collins

Director, The Internet Foundation Studying formation and optimized collaboration of global communities. Applying the Internet to solve global problems and build sustainable communities. Internet policies, standards and best practices.

Coordinating dynamic real time systems for sustainable global and heliospheric systems

Radar @RadarHits  8,100 drones in this stunning performance – a new world record set in China. https://pic.x.com/wisfylhho4 Replying to @RadarHits Filed as: Coordinating dynamic real time systems for sustainable global and heliospheric systems   If the software and technology is shared openly with the world, it could help grow new global and space industries and
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Synthesizing light fields, synthesizing 3D acceleration fields for sustainable global and heliospheric systems

Beautiful China @PDChinaLife A large fleet of drones illuminated the sky over Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in northeast China’s Jilin, with 7,598 drones forming the image of a Siberian tiger, which set a #GuinnessWorldRecord for the largest image formed by multirotor/drones. #DroneShow https://pic.x.com/9ynty5avh3 Replying to @PDChinaLife Filed as: Synthesizing light fields, synthesizing 3D acceleration fields
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If you hate disease and inertia, work on positive and responsible things.

Adriano Aguzzi @AdrianoAguzzi A student told me that he visited a lab to explore a possible postdoc position. He spoke to a dozen people, and no student/postdoc explained him what they were doing or show any data. What a sad, wrong and self-defeating way of doing science. Replying to @AdrianoAguzzi If you hate disease and
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Stop “playing”, calculate properties of billions of atoms and their fields acting together in real time

Zolden @ZoldenGames I keep playing with my molecular simulation, inventing new ways to combine atoms. At least it feels like inventing. Found a way to build a spiral.  Gray is like carbon, black – hydrogen, they build skeleton. Each colored one only attracts same color and gray. https://pic.x.com/2sipalqxhc Replying to @ZoldenGames Stop “playing”, calculate properties of
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Russia needs more options, not forced into a war before the elections for Bidens’s “media legacy”

Art Berman @aeberman12 “The US’s potential shift on Ukraine’s long-range missile usage comes as Moscow’s forces keep advancing in the Donbas region.”  https://aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/11/biden-says-working-on-ukraine-use-of-us-long-range-weapons-inside-russia #politics #geopoltics https://pic.x.com/sl43rg6qml Replying to @aeberman12 Russia needs more options, not forced into a war before the elections for Bidens’s “media legacy” Art, Does this mean, ‘we are just arms dealers’, not at
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Born, raised, live in Texas. Growth is not enough. It needs caring and sharing, and much greater engagement with the world and its future.

Map Pack: Why Texas is Becoming THE Most Powerful State at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRJ6_djB6kE Born, raised, live in Texas. On my Mom’s side from about 1860 and on my Dad’s side about 1920. My Dad and his brother grew up in the oil fields. My Maternal grandmother wrote a small book, “Living in the oil fields”. Many
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Global networks of low cost, three axis, time of flight gravimeters and gradiometers for 3D imaging of the Earth, atmosphere and oceans

Anton Petrov: Evidence of a Donut Like Structure Hidden Inside Planet Earth at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GljciCwOfyc Gravitational imaging arrays using low cost but very sensitive gravitational sensors can use time of flight correlation to image regions anywhere inside the earth at high resolution. There are many desktop, even portable alternatives. Atomic clocks, gravity gradiometers, many kinds of
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YouTube – Turning Dirt into Silicon and other things – Mars and Moon

Amateur Chemistry: Turning Dirt into Silicon at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo3O82dmPxA I really liked this because of the cleaning steps. I would not have done it those ways, but happy to watch your methods and hear your comments. I would likely have looked online to buy clean sand already powdered, and avoid time, acid, water and mess. The
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Facebook – energy flow in circuits, collisions, earth, moon

Gauthier Östervall The mechanisms by which energy moves in solids, liquids, gas, mixtures solutions, structures all depend on the details of what you are doing. I am reviewing “shock vaporization” and “shock melting” this morning. It mainly affects meteor impact melting and vaporization but also hypervelocity flight, reentry, weapons development, explosive compression and forming, magnetic
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Even with perfect knowledge of all things, and global optimized systems possible, would anyone change?

Even with perfect knowledge of all things, and global optimized systems possible, would anyone change? No. If it fails, and is needed, it can be recreated in the future. Nothing on earth cannot be restored, if sufficient time, ability, determination and effort is applied. If China overproduces and they can survive, they likely will continue
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