Cesium @CesiumJS  Japan 3D Buildings are now live on Cesium ion! Create immersive digital twins with 23 million 3D buildings across Japan, combining over 200 CityGML datasets from MLIT PLATEAU Platform into one comprehensive tileset. Learn more: https://hubs.li/Q02znxDz0 @ProjectPlateau https://pic.x.com/ikbvzgnhs9 Replying to @CesiumJS and @ProjectPlateau I wish I had this when I helped set up
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China needs smarter planners for moon projects. An orbital infrastructure for the Moon would let ANY groups get communication, memory and powerful computing to projects and experiments on the far side. Real planning, collaboration, real infrastructure can help whole generations work efficiently and with much less risk. Every country “doing its own thing” where the
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If I had billions of dollars, I would not waste a chunk of it taking a personal trip around the moon. I would put a satellite in orbit as part of a Moon Internet system and put lots of cameras and sensors on board. Then share the data with the roughly 2 Billions kids now.
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I often review groups related to global topics. For instance, today (“punctuated evolution”) which on Google search shows 56,200 entry points. That ought to be small enough to sample all of those, but using manual methods is not really accessible for study. Is it possible to get random samples from Google API? For instance (“evolution”
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Ricard Solé @ricard_sole How does complexity arise in (macro)evolution? Is it a continuous or a stepwise process? What about hierarchies? Check this new @Trends_Ecol_Evo review led by @svalver on the @eldredge and Gould’s Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium across scales. https://cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(24)00114-9?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0169534724001149%3Fshowall%3Dtrue https://pic.x.com/z7qwsxp1bd Replying to @ricard_sole @Trends_Ecol_Evo and 2 others Richard Sole, it seems like your groups
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You I am looking at live videos of a volcano in iceland. A plume is 50 meters tall and the base seems for that plume of liquid magman seems to be about 10 square meters. What is the pressure diiferential at the base to force magma to the height of 50 meters? You should have
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Zhigang Suo @zhigangsuo  Knowles Lecture and Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium Friday, 31 May 2024, 9:00am, 135 Gates-Thomas I will begin with a lecture titled, Topology and chemistry determine mechanical properties of polymers Followed by young mechanicians at Caltech— https://mce.caltech.edu/events/knowles-lecture/knowles2024 Replying to @zhigangsuo It seems this is only open to people who happen to live nearby. I
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