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Comment on Mars Helicopter Snaps color image – Metric, Documenting, Teaching, Sharing

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Collaborative Model and Data, Intelligent Algorithms, Internet Best Practices, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working April 24, 2021

​You are very thoughtful. Yes, I agree about the usual human practices and methods. Every single one of the tens of thousands of groups I studied in detail on the Internet ended up failing or limiting themselves because of the greed of a few people, or policies that benefited only their group. It is particularly
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Comment on Persistent luminescence instead of phosphorescence

Richard K Collins Collaborative Model and Data, Covid, Experimenting, Intelligent Algorithms, Internet Best Practices, Non-Profit Groups Using the Internet, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working April 18, 2021

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327939317_Persistent_luminescence_instead_of_phosphorescence_History_mechanism_and_perspective/comments Enjoyable read with many thoughtful ideas and descriptions. There are several energy sources for these photon flows, but thermal energy harvesting over long periods, then optical photon emission for shorter periods seems to be the theme. The energy stored in electronic states.   I am posting this on 18 Apr 2021: “persistent luminescence” has
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Using the Internet to represent and compress reality without loss

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Experimenting, Intelligent Algorithms, Internet Best Practices, Richard Collins Life and Purpose, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working April 18, 2021

Ben, I read your description and it is clear.  I want the flexibility for myself.  If the environment and tool it rigid, I know that I won’t be able to build the things I want.  That includes (G) gathering and organizing things, (E) exploration and mapping new kinds of things (C) comparison and classification (S)
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