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Category: Solar System Colonization

Comment on Hubble vs Amateur Astrophotography

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Model and Data, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Open Algorithm Development, Solar System Colonization, Visualizations Simulations October 26, 2021

Hubble vs. Amateur Astrophotographer (27 Aug 2021) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QcJaD9klDc I had to look a bit, but eventually found a description of the camera and exposure for that original image of “Pillars of Creation” at https://hubblesite.org/mission-and-telescope/mission-timeline#h4-deab74a9-f038-4a74-9313-425d13e71747 with more detail at https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1995/news-1995-44.html then some images at https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1995/44/351-Image.html?news=true Like usual, Hubble media people dominate sharing on their site,
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Comment on Telescope prices and sharing

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet efficiency, Solar System Colonization, Web Policies Internet Polices October 23, 2021

What YOU Can SEE Through a $1 Billion, $32,000 and an $800 Telescope! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwoII9TQd8k There are many countries with LOTS of people where $800 is more than the median annual income. And many more countries and many more people where $800 is more than monthly income. So here you are, posting a video that could
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Self reproducing robot societies that live in the desert and convert sunlight to cities

Richard K Collins Collaborative Model and Data, Global Climate Change, Intelligent Algorithms, Machine Vision, Open Algorithm Development, Plasma, Process Monitoring and Control, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Solar System Colonization, Visualizations Simulations October 14, 2021

I have had deserts on my mind a lot over the last few decades.  All during the 1980’s I worked on populations forecasts and issues in Africa, then the Famine Early Warning Systems (FEWS.net), then global climate change.  I sort of keep up with any efforts to turn those vast areas into something more suitable
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Comment on “Ion Engine 2.0” – many people interested, and posting things, but not working together globally

Richard K Collins Electromagnetic Gravitational Field, Experimenting, Internet Best Practices, Open Algorithm Development, Solar System Colonization, Visualizations Simulations October 9, 2021

Ion Engine 2.0 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSt1-JsDyGs (“electric wind” OR “ionic wind”) has 574,000 entry points (Google, 9 Oct 2021) (“electric wind” OR “ionic wind”) site:arxiv.org has 310 entry points (“electric wind” OR “ionic wind”) site:youtube.com has 141,000 entry points And they are not all working together globally. Richard Collins, Director, The Internet Foundation

Comment on “Floating under a levitating liquid” and related issues

Richard K Collins Collaborative Model and Data, For profit groups using the Internet, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Open Algorithm Development, Solar System Colonization October 9, 2021

Floating under a levitating liquid at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bodsuTucSxQ and https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2643-8 (for pay, just for reference) This is not science and sharing, but what I have come to call “eye candy”. Pretty pictures and people playing with phenomena, but not showing the context and background. You start with showing the whole of the apparatus, explain the parts,
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Comment on Making Petrified Lightning – application to solar system colonization, global needs and new industries

Richard K Collins 3D Scannning Replication, Experimenting, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Solar System Colonization, Web Policies Internet Polices October 5, 2021

TheBackyardScientist,  Making Petrified Lightning …with electricity? at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7YznIKe7bU 3D printing metal. You can use metal or glass powders, control the current, and randomly choose next points – probably run on Arduino. You have all the skills and stuff mostly. Maybe someone already suggested. You might invent a way for YouTube viewers to work together, combine
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Comment on Jordan Sullivan, Neutrinos and Antimatter Video

Richard K Collins Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Gravitational Engineering, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Solar System Colonization, Symbolic Mathematics, Web Policies Internet Polices October 5, 2021

Neutrinos and antimatter at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcpNhPBxwfo Jordan, You can combine a particle and its anti-particle into a stable form, if you provide angular momentum. The external charge and magnetic dipole moments are effectively zero, and the particle is effectively all binding energy which has no mass. The pair can store most any amount of energy, but
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Groups sharing models and data on the Internet, not paper – the case of “neutrino” OR “neutrinos”

Richard K Collins Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Solar System Colonization October 4, 2021

Maury, Please post your Long Baseline Neutrino Newsletters on the Internet, and only send links and short announcements by email.  Make a member site and let people control their email notices. I think I wrote about this before, but is this newsletter available online somewhere.  My email only has a fixed part of the screen
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Real world global communities on the Internet – Comment

Richard K Collins Collaborative Model and Data, Internet Covid Project, Internet efficiency, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Solar System Colonization, Web Policies Internet Polices September 25, 2021

Real-World Global Networks at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsYxcaER4ww Victoria, For the past 23 years I have been studying global communities.  I took over TheInternetFoundation (net org com) from Network Solutions in July 1998 after the original Internet Foundation was cancelled for US political reasons. It is not “networks”, though global communities use hardware and software. Rather it is people
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Comment on The Civic Went on an Diet

Richard K Collins Collaborative Model and Data, Experimenting, Global Climate Change, Internet Best Practices, Open Algorithm Development, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working, Solar System Colonization September 24, 2021

The Civic Went A Diet with a serious weight reduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiZm7Ucm3JQ I think you can take off the back doors and replace them with lightweight panels. This made me think, I wonder what would happen if you could buy a “barebones car”, like “barebones computer”? No interior, no heater or AC, then add components as
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