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.

Magnetic Levitation by Rotation

https://www.facebook.com/reel/878864594203053 Magnetic Levitation by Rotation Magnetic Levitation by Rotation (2003) https://journals.aps.org/prapplied/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.20.044036 Magnetic Levitation by Rototation https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00812 When magnetic dipole align north. If the are laid next to each other NS and SN that makes a strong bond. For electrond and protons, protons and protons, protons and neutrons, even neutrons and neutrons those all occur. The
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Texas2036: Your group might be piercing the veil of government decision making.

https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1845168701643030780 @Texas2036  Texas2036: Your group might be piercing the veil of government decision making. I read your most recent 990 and annual report, and reviewed your site. Those PDFs are “data” but not in an immediately useful form for analysis, planning, projections, policy development, program and project coordination. You are paying your people handsomely. You
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“Narrow and go fast” will beat “broad but no market” in the short term. Global Open Resources

https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1844795619942035943 “Narrow and go fast” will beat “broad but no market” in the short term.  You left out training the 5.4 Billion humans using the Internet, and figuring out what to do with the other 2.8 Billion humans who exist but seem to always fall though the cracks because the current (humans using computers and
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Do lossless copies of the images from this group exist, for study, algorithm development?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1278689162297491 – Solar Photography group on Facebook Valter Schemmari Do lossless copies of the images from this group exist, for study, algorithm development? These are jpg (lossy) here and I do not want to waste any time playing with encoded and lossy data. Any suggestions? Where there are videos, likewise. I do not have any
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My brother broke his neck at C2

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1032137652031543 My brother broke his neck at C2 and was completely paralyzed on respirator. Before him, my cousin broke his back and he could use his hands but not his legs I think is hands were not really functional. I tried to forget. Then a woman who translated a book for me, her new husband
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I did that so many times. But when I was young, the cameras weighed 300 pound,

https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1844387574514606178 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1320813268885181 I did that so many times. But when I was young, the cameras weighed 300 pound, black and white and no recording or sharing. My uncle had a 35 mm camera but never let anyone use it. Because it was too expensive kids were not allowed, and the film took a long to
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When I have time, I simply work with the data from lossless sensors

https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1844364999051051492 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1041287977274214 When I have time, I simply work with the data from lossless sensors and refuse to waste time on publication (lack of quality) pictures and (too trivial) “words about” things where most people never even try to work with the raw data. Because the raw data is all there is, the rest is
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I stumbled into a familiar but alien world.

https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1844360449782874283 https://www.facebook.com/reel/899117728232649 I stumbled into a familiar but alien world. When I was little, my Dad and I would work on engines often. Then we went separate ways. I can still smell the oil, and even taste it. But this video, all I care about is “What is the weight of the engine?” What power,
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