Net Galley Challenge
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Moral sayings
Friday, October 20, 2023
Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You by Ali Abdaal
Matthew Dicks novelist and his play at Macdonalds
Enactive Mastery accounts for difference in self efficacy.
Leonardos procrastination and how ti,es can look at your varied interests as a sign of broken curriculum differently
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to Our Humanity in an Age of Social Robots
Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to Our Humanity in an Age of Social Robots
Oskar and Alma reminded me of Kroor Singh keeping his parent alive somehow.
In a place where people are anxious of the journey ahead, do you think you would prefer a person or a robot (wont show some bias that people might have) to check you in.
Now "rent a friend" movie makes sense. Inside Japan's booming rentafriend industry
Sunday, October 15, 2023
Whats happening in the cosmos
Valerian and the City of Thousand Planets
"Could this banana be an alien?". Maybe a mushroom with 50 words of vocabulary is capable of being one.
Pattern matching when there isnt one.
Imagine dusting off the golden record. If some of us went that way and treat it as a message from aliens. A message to us from us, if we all cant be on the same mailing list.
Wll it be treated like this silver box in Jamestown which was not opened, to prevent any damage that unrevealing of the schrodinger's cat box might cause. Instead it was xrayed.
United States Board on Geographic Names naming chosen from the closest post office name.
why mars rover is slow because remote control takes 40min to and fro.
Earth rise vs The Pale Blue Dot picture orchestrated by Carl Sagan.
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan
Can we guess what kind of DNA, aliens might have? How NASA is using synthetic DNA in its search for alien life - Hachimoji DNA with 8 letters instead of the 4 we are used to.
"Scientists use calculations instead of experiments when the required temperatures wuld melt or freeze the laboratory or the gas mix would poison the expirementers"
UV cleanse
"starlight serves as cosmic thermometer"
Metaphors
earth as apple and atmosphere thick as it skin
distance to the sun in cookie and galazy as football fields for scale
Europa being kneaded like bread dough with the stretching and compressing by gravity
Imagine
Aliens Wanted
1. Must be able to compute the time it needs to transition between the lowest and second lowest energy rate at which the golden record is to be played.
2. How would we be prepared to go to space? In hurry, if we had to leave like the cave dwellers, what would we take. How do astronauts prepare themselves to what they come back to and what if they cant.
3. Stowaways to one planet thinking its another.
4. Panspermia natural space explorers
5. Spilling tardigrades like some arrows of messages
JWST 334 single points of failure - find list
Space Calendar
2024 - NASA Europa Clipper Launch Oct
2027 - NASA DRAGONFLY launch to Titan
2030 - Europa Cliper reaches Jupiter moons
2031 - ESA Juice Explorer reaches Jupiter Icy Moons
2034 - Dragonfly reaches Titan
Bazaar art
Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art (Objects/Histories)
The Effort by Claire Holroyde
The Effort
Able to see how research would fit into the writing. When it is about some place where you havent been.
So many forms on ships
Now I see why the ship scenes started with a drill. Unique about it.
When is a person declared missing on a research vessel? Expecting logging into a system at required systems is one way. But its possible that someone else signs. Requiring them to come and sign at a place recorded with a video or photo is another way.
Wow, missing and unidentified go hand in hand.
If we were like this glass octopus, we could watch whats going on inside our body and fix ourselves if we wanted to.
The lost twin brother - are all secondary characters either similar or contrast to the surrounding and settings to add more depth to the situation to make it a whole, closed cosmos.
Kaikeyi: A Novel
Kaikeyi: A Novel
Intro to Indian culture and Telugu - UCDavis Freshman Seminar
Saturday, October 14, 2023
Lessons for the future
Jamestown climate change - How do our final rites look for the future generations? What about archaelogy finds? What will be our tough times similar to their starving time?
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
The Innovation Delusion










