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Solar eruption photo overload
Solar eruption and “Black Swan” event photo overload: this is an encore layout collage of our earlier glitch variations (and original) giant sun prominent post on IG. This giant prominence erupted from the sun on Aug 31, 2012, sending a shockwave towards Earth that could have caused some very serious problems. You can read more about the Sun in our earlier posts on theories of harnessing energy from the sun apply to civilizations (including human civilizations) as well as how giant solar shockwaves pose a threat to Earth (1859 Carrington event – Wikipedia). Our earlier blog post also talked about how the Chinese have nearly 3,000 years of recorded solar observations, which comes in handy. Post and some comments below may be synced from our original Instagram version. Instagram likes: (more…)… Read the restGaia Hypothesis or Big Data in SciFi continued.
We’ve had fun looking at the impact of science on science and tech. With the recent passing of a very popular science fiction actor, we thought this was a good time to look at big data in science fiction. Originally published on our IG feed, this is part of a series on the data science in science fiction. We’ll start with the Gaia Hypothesis (Wikipedia). As it’s name implies, it’s actually not fiction, but a hypothesis that has not been proven. It might someday be regarded as science fact. (But at the moment close enough to science fiction for government work.) According to the hypothesis, Earth’s biosphere and other processes form a network of feedback loops that keep Earth in a homeostasis. In some interpretations, Earth is almost a conscious or intelligent entity, acting to remove irritants (humans?) that threaten homeostasis. However, the stabilization or intelligent behavior emerges out of the concerted effort of all of Earth’s organisms and geochemical processes, unconsciously working together.… Read the restVirtual reality testing: virtual fashion shoot of 3D object
Today, we’re doing a glamorous virtual fashion fashion shoot of the caveman co-designed object we created yesterday on Shapeways. This is virtual reality testing. This is the future. VR testing is a perfect compliment with 3D printing, because it provides a means to test physical objects before they are even created. In yesterday’s photo post, we created a caveman-designed (or co-designed) object available on Shapeways that we created in homage to the maker movement. (It was a popular monochrome photo from earlier in our photo stream: our blog post on the 11,000 year-old woolly mammoth cave drawing. We converted it into a keychain holder. It truly was caveman design.) So, to do this properly, we need to have a virtual fashion shoot of this object which does not yet exist. (But likely will eventually exist when someone orders it on-demand.) This is futuristic concept of virtual reality testing. Since keychains are hard to model, we temporarily made this into a necklace pedant, hanging from our virtual model’s (not included) glowing yellow pearls (or whatever those things are that we made that don’t fit into the theme of the rest of the outfit.)… Read the restSelf-replicating 3D printer: von Neumann machines on Mars?
Is this self-replicating 3D printer a von Neumann machine that will someday go to Mars? Yesterday, we experimented with our idea of Instagram to 3D printed jewelry for the more popular monochrome photos in our feed. The technology worked at some level (we have jewelry on Shapeways now, based on a previous IG photo post). But it took too long and too many artistic decisions to get it there. It wasn’t quite blinking lights automatic the way our earlier virtual fashion shoot could be. So this is a good time to step back and explain what 3D printing is or can become, for those we are less familiar with it. This is Mandel, a version of RepRap. RepRap is an open source hardware project to build a fully self-replicating 3D printer. That’s right, a 3D printer that can print a copy of itself. We’ve discussed the concept of self-replicating machines previously in posts on cellular automata.… Read the restRecent Posts
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