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There was talk of REMOVING a second soon because the Earth's rotation had sped up a bit. Physicists havent figured out the cause of the speed up. The previous slow downs were attributed to tidal friction and global warming (expanding seas and atmosphere).

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Like parts of the ISS will be privatized after 2030. Could form parts of new space stations.

Tiangoon flybys can reaches magnitude -2 now. Bright than most planets. Next bright evening flybys overUS in early December.

The ISS, which has five times more modules, reaches magnitude -4 sometimes. Third brightest thing in sky.

Lucille Ball's best or second best decision in television history was to greenlight Star Trek. It was not a straightforward process, requiring an unusual 2nd pilot.

Musk's purchase premium increased their stock value a considerable amount.

In the early days computer programming was considered a clerical job one learned in trade schools. I think people looked down on it partly because many of the early programmers were female, beneath the dignity of a male profession.

It rook my alma mater MIT until 2018 to recognize software worthy of a department in itself (after a huge financial donation). Before then it was a step child of Electrical Engineering. This is kind of ironic because me and most of my classmates ended up writing software for money, though almost none of us majored in that field.

In one of my early scientist-programmer jobs I was assigned an assistant to keypunch, submit jobs and pick up printouts. The other scientists thought I was odd for wanting to do all this myself. I had much more productivity than them.

Submit GPT-3 written journal articles to vanity journals. They deserve each other.

The good news was it was successful. The bad news is they way under predicted the amount of redirection. Back to the physics drawing board to understand this.

Better than Google Glass which was 20 minutes in video mode.

A "killer app" may be new employee training. I heard in a Stanford computer seminar that VR accelerates training with stronger learning.

Though emeritus, Don gives an annual lecture around December. Often on an algorithm.

I hope AlphaFold is a contender for the physiology prize. It converted a formerly slow tedious process of determining protein shape into something fast and routine. The millions of results should revolutionize biology and medicine.

There was a significant television ad campaign against this bill (before the autumn election ads started). They claimed many of our beloved tech apps and services would disappear or become very costly. I dont think the audience paid much attention to these ads.

People have been processing foods since the beginning. (1) Changing texture by removing rough parts, beating into mushes. (2) Heat processing, boiling, roasting, frying, soups. (3) Dehydrating, drying (4) Fermenting.

Modern industrial food processing uses machines and mass production. Adds chemicals like sugar, starch, salt, spice, nitrates, phosphates ... Probably too much of this.

The second identifiable person to have his genome sequenced- James Watson- had around 30 known genome defects at the time. However most of them did not manifest as disease. That is a mystery.

A similar argument could be made for China. They had expertise and capital, but not the incentives to jump to an industrial economy.

Rose is considered a founder of American Libertarian movement. People debate whether some these ideas crept into her Moms books which Rose heavily edited.

FLOW sounds like an an adult college dormitory. Tenants would rent/buy a private bedroom & bathroom. Living room, kitchen, offices, recreation would be common facilities.

This probably wouldnt work for adults who wish to raise families.

Perhaps art is the next profession relegated to unemployment because of computerization.

I think this experiment shows that humans overestimate their innate creativity. Most of thoughts build upon earlier thoughts and experiences. A sophisticated language model can emulate most of our routine thoughts. The philosopher Gurdjieff and Zen philosophers say we drift though life in low awareness and in mental ruts. They propose mental exercises to improve this.

Death usually is not that sudden. Only 20%-25% of deaths are surprising and occur 24 hours or less according the Nuland's "How We Die" and other studies. The other 75% are slower processes giving us plenty of time to contemplate death, make peace or anger.

Yet there is effective vaccine. But only 200,000 doses available so far for 5,000,000 who regularly have this kind of sex. Plus you have tell people to abstain from sex for the six weeks for two vaccine does to take effect and not get sick. Good luck getting horndogs to do that.

Two reasons why this hypothesis may not be true:

1) Universal failure of plaque-reduction drug trials.

2) Numerous post-mortem counter-examples: dementia w/o plaques and plaques without dementia.

First Star Wars first space battle. Nothing like that before.

Venters company was charging $25K. That included lots of other diagnostic tests too. (Venter was the first human sequenced. By his own company.)

LUVOIR is a foldable mirror telescope, larger than JWST, UV to near IR, like Hubble. Congress has a bad test in mouth from JWST delays and overruns. Pehaps dozens of majornew discoveries will help.

Roman is next in queue with many of its parts already built and operational around 2028.

MIT's SPARC figured out how to manufacture high temperature superconductor magnets. That shrinks the size of the magnets and power consumption.

Even our libraries do social services now. Libraries have become street people congregation places, especially in bad weather. Ours (Denver) has security force of 30 to escort out misbehaving patrons. They also have a couple social workers that step in when helping a patron makes more sense than expulsion.

Denver 911 now sends out social services as first responder if judged non-life threatening. For example a common 911 call asksfora ride to health service.