Hideyuki Nakayama's glass globe doorknob was made in 2010. It was conceived to refract the scene on the other side of the door in its depths without using cameras, giving a preview of the next room before turning the knob
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Read the comments. They are fantastic.
According to an index developed in 2015, Earth is not the most habitable planet found yet.
Kepler-442b, a rocky near-Earth-sized exoplanet that is 1206 light-years away from Earth, has a rating of 0.836. On the other hand, Earth has a rating of 0.829.
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Some thoughts about the theory of relativity…
Electricity moves differently in a vacuum or with altered gravity. Does that mean that time is different or does it mean that how we measure time is different?
You could make the argument that a person on Earth shows a different time than someone in space simply because electricity works differently in space but the same measurement of time has passed for both individuals.
The only thing that changes is “how” I measure the time difference. That is why I believe the theory of relativity is incorrect.
If electricity moves at the speed of light and electricity moves differently in a void does that question what the speed of light actually is? To me, that means the speed of light is variable. Or, the way you are measuring is changing.
To me, if I travel away from the Earth at the speed of light and then return, I will have aged exactly the same as if I had stayed on Earth. Time may have been measured differently in space but my constant of measure is the Earth.
It is a theory that is extremely clear to me for some reason. I’ve always said that you cannot arm chair quarterback the universe from your chair on Earth.
I think the theory of relativity will be debunked when we start seriously traveling among the stars.
Today’s random thought is about Dark Matter.
As I was sitting here at my desk thinking about all of the things that we are so close to achieving as far as space exploration, I had a wandering thought.
Actually, it was more like a question.
Why do we waste so much time trying to understand something that we made up to explain something that really doesn’t need explaining?
There is air. There is space.
Can we move it along, please?
There are infinitely many more things out there that need to be analyzed, probed, and then probed again.
We are wasting so much precious time on something that may or may not exist. Some people will devote their whole lives to this and to me, that is such a waste. A waste of someone’s life.
I personally believe that if it wasn’t for all of these “side projects” we would probably already have a colony on the moon and also on Mars.
Can you imagine what the world would be like if all of the scientists were focused on achieving one goal. The could all have their roles to play but what if they were all driven towards a common goal?
Wouldn’t that be cool?
Interesting article this morning about a simulation that shows how long the Earth has before we are no longer able to breath on it.
To find that tipping point, the researchers created a simulation of Earth that factored in variables that described the climate as well as geological and biological processes, and most importantly, the activity of the sun. The researchers then ran their simulation to see how the Earth fared far into the future.
The most important take away here is that they are pointing to the sun as being the cause of the loss of oxygen and less towards global warming.
The simulation showed that as the sun grew hotter, 1 billion years from now, releasing more energy, carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s atmosphere will begin to drop due to the gas absorbing the heat and breaking down. The ozone layer would also be burned away. Then, as carbon dioxide levels fall, plant life will begin to suffer, resulting in reduced production of oxygen. Over a period of just 10,000, years, CO2 levels will drop so much that plant life would go extinct. Without plant life, land- and sea-dwelling creatures would soon go extinct, as well, due to the lack of a breathable atmosphere. Meanwhile, the simulation also showed increasing levels of methane entering the atmosphere, speeding the demise of creatures needing oxygen to breathe. The result, according to the simulation, would be a planet without life, save for tiny anaerobic creatures such as bacteria—conditions very similar to Earth prior to the evolution of plants and animals.
100% agree with this. This is one of the rare times that you’ll see scientists factor in the sun to determine environmental issues. Something we have absolutely no control over.
I think that any scientist working on the climate has preconceived notions. We may call that an agenda but I don’t think I’d go quite that far.
Climate warming or Global Warming is a dynamic issue for two reasons.
The planet’s weather system is dynamic. That means that it may be warm during the 1970s in summer time but much colder in the 2000s. What most reports leave out is the fact that while some place in the world is getting warmer there is also a place that is getting much colder. One pole is losing ice. Well, the other pole is gaining it.
Water levels rising is temporary and wouldn’t be the first time.
My personal feeling on these matters is that as humans, we have a complete misunderstanding of a much bigger picture that scientists simply cannot get their head around.
Why I wrote the article is here.
This story caught my attention for a very specific reason.
Arrogance.
We haven’t seen nor are we able to see anything beyond a mere fraction of the universe. For someone to think that they can “map the universe” is probably one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard.
The scientist clearly has no idea of scope. This is the same situation as “you don’t know what you don’t know.”
We literally have no idea how big the universe actually is because we are severely limited by our ability to view everything from this spinning ball we all inhabit.
You can’t map something you can’t see.
I’m not even sure we can map our own galaxy very accurately. I’m sure mis-applying Einstein’s theory of relativity doesn’t help matters either.
It would be interesting to get a chance to see where we are scientifically 1000 years from now. If we survive as a species that is.
I think the odds are against us. As long as we keep killing each other aliens will probably stay away and we’ll just end up killing ourselves off.
We’re probably not the first civilization that did it and I’m sure we won’t be the last.
Series:Undying Mercenaries, Book 22
Author: B.V. Larson
