I know that the last 30 years has been hard. Greed and lies tend to be the norm, not the rare exception. Wars and armed conflicts increase every day. A house that used to be stable for a lifetime becomes a liability when global financial markets can be destroyed by someone spending ten minutes giving
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I am looking at Solar Dynamics Observatory images. During the year does the earth (and earth based telescopes) move above and below the ecliptic? Does the sub earth point of the visible center of the sun change in solar latitude during the year? ChatGPT said: ChatGPT Yes, the Earth does move slightly above and below
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Part of Richard Collins chat with chatGPT – atomic nuclear forces, gravitation, Internet Foundation, life work, hopes possibilities, War. 9 Oct 2024 The chat was so large it exceeded the memory of WordPress and of ChatGPT I am just trying to save fragments You said: Now if we were writing computer programs or writing mathematical
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https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1840452982938501227 I am going to take a break from X. It is an endless cycle of things other people are talking about. I am going to take a break from X. It is an endless cycle of things other people are talking about. Adding comments, suggestions, ideas, insights just adds to the chatter. All my
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Comment on Action Lab at https://www.facebook.com/reel/511406638028187 My Comment: Thank you for sharing. I have never seen a video of that chemical reaction before with the intense red. For an earth to orbit lift scenario, (SpaceX) I designed a system with many 2 GigaWatt storage units, each that has to produce for about 5 minutes (300
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Why do Asian kids outperform Western kids in math? | by Malcolm Gladwell at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wo31YeAI0Q Why don’t Americans memorize a lot of mathematics in school? by Richard Collins Mostly kids in the United States are not expected to do anything. About one in a thousand who do put in effort is enough to solve
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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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What Actually Caused the Baby Boom?… It Wasn’t (really) WWII at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts1ZFHA4cCw I came from a large family and was born a few years after WW II. I would say that movies, advertising to “have the good life”, consumption, television had a lot to do with it. “Cheaper by the dozen” and washing machines, microwaves
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What causes the Pauli Exclusion Principle? at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlp2GQ3OLeE Particles of any size with permanent magnetic moments can bind magnetically. The magnetic potential is proportional to the product of the magnetic moments (in Joules/Tesla) divided by the inverse cube of their separation. But simply, it is two magnets binding. Two electrons can bind magnetically where it
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I dreamed I was giving a lecture on human migration, and it was going really well, until I looked up and my audience had left. I dreamed I wrote rules for the Internet that everyone should clean up their websites, and someone asked me why my own were still a mess. Don’t dream. Richard Collins,
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