Sunday, October 1, 2023

Exploring Near Space: Scientific Ballooning and the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility

Near space balloon competition

experiment examples

Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship

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These experiments will free up our rocket payloads for other experiments.

Saturday, September 30, 2023

Destination

A destination is made beautiful so people know where to go. pagoda on the top of a mountain hill with stone steps leading the way.

Can you imagine a beautiful destination without the way?

Hadrian tree fell

Something is destroyed, so people visit less often?

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Opinion writing

How to be an opinion writer

Intelligence Analysis

U.S. Foreign Service Suggested reading

Temperament theory

Delphi method of Agreed consensus

Why Can't You Just Give Me The Number?: An Executive's Guide to Using Probabilistic Thinking to Manage Risk and to Make Better Decisions by Patrick Leach

thekeypoint

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Game

Saw grown ups play with these kind of boats at a lake in the park. It made me think of how you make the large scale boating to a fun controlling game without the danger or risk.

explore.org livecams of brown bears is a similar derisked, armchair wildlife expedition or a bigsit if you will. A non interrupting way too right. Let the wildlife do its thing.

Watching the bears is fun. Sometimes you dont know what else you might see. Glorious bald eagle with its white mane, owls, a cow moose, a wolf. Wolves and brown bears have a complicated relationship. A wolf sniffs a rock sticking out of the water, not minding the bear a little far away.

Didnt realise that Alaska's sunset is late. Early morning bird chirps are so rejuvenating. The gurgling water sound is relaxing.

The Bears of Brooks Falls: Wildlife and Survival on Alaska's Brooks River

sculptor of Katmai

you probably heard of stone soup. How about rock flour that lends the blue/green/teal look to this area and Lake Louise at Banff national park in Canada?

Sunday, September 10, 2023

Zero area, set of measure zero

In the most extreme case, three points in line with one another form a triangle with zero area.

I would have thought that if you found that in the strip with two points, if the third point is on the line then since you cant draw a triangle, you just discard the points and move onto the next.

Oh wow.. imagine an infinite sided polygon whose points all fall onto a line.

They have a special name --- Degenerate polygons

Another zero instance

This portion is so tiny that it has no area, and mathematicians refer to it as a “set of measure zero.”