Mechazilla catching Starship 5
It took less than 7 minutes to blow everyone’s mind. Courtesy of NASASpceflight on YouTube.
Category: science
yellow noise
oil on canvas 20”x16” I was listening to this while I painted. Unsupervised learning model, a data-first, dynamic yada yada. Iterative sampling and probability assignments in n-dimensional, with checks for … Continue reading yellow noise
Retro-fitting coal plants with Carnot heat engines
Clean coal tech, probably. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352152X23026361?via%3Dihub costs The advantage to this design is the use of bedrock as a storage system, and the verticality of air cycling.
Bananas in science dump
Lots of papers. Lots of mind. Little time. Less rhyme. Arapaima.
Twenty questions veers suddenly into
According to a rumor yet to be confirmed by the current affairs desk at TMZ, the buzz at Bistro Sgreen is that fiftystatebanana is working on a new painting. That’s … Continue reading Twenty questions veers suddenly into
Squishy Ball Collisions, Lumpy Flow of Mud, Soft Robotics, Ploppy Goo Squirts, and Things You Can Visualize with Combinations of Neural Networks and Computer Vision
RESEARCH STATEMENTChenfanfu Jiang, November 4, 2020 Just an interesting science read. Cheers. If not broke, then go deeper. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-0716-0826-5
Mach 7
How fast is Mach 7? 7,608.5958 ft/sec 1.44102193 miles/sec 2.319099997 km/s 2.37168138e-4 parsecs/century and stuff MACH 7 is approximately 1% of the speed of the solar system in its galactic orbit … Continue reading Mach 7
Catching Uneven Bananas
This is how it started. Pay walled, but looks nice. Don’t be poor. This explains how to build motion dictionaries, kinematic chains, and other control structures to catch flying bananas. … Continue reading Catching Uneven Bananas
Heavens to Murgatroyd, Evenbananas!
I was going to share this a couple of weeks ago, but I picked up a teaching gig, so I needed to prepare for the role. I am not able … Continue reading Heavens to Murgatroyd, Evenbananas!
dearMoon Project
I applied to fly with Yusaka Maezawa and the crew members aboard Starship in 2023 through the dearMoon project. This mission will happen following many planned and successful Starship orbits … Continue reading dearMoon Project
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
When chasing your dream becomes something more. So much danger in this clip. I feel like I have reached shitpost clairvoyance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Brasseur I was banned from /r/WallStreetBets for three days … Continue reading The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
Science Fortnite: Long Reads on 5 Topics: Particle Physics (with Banana Scale Segue EDITED), Dust, Leptins, Blockchain, and Navigation
I decided to export a public version of what constitutes about 25% of my journal activity. I let this ride along for about a month. Then I dropped it off … Continue reading Science Fortnite: Long Reads on 5 Topics: Particle Physics (with Banana Scale Segue EDITED), Dust, Leptins, Blockchain, and Navigation
Fifty State Banana 