TED: SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes - Gwynne Shotwell
Chris Anderson talking with SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell about BFR etc.
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Chris Anderson talking with SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell about BFR etc.
Amazing how persistence of vision causes our brains to insist that this has to be the same object moving/changing shape, as we never evolved to consider rapid switching of images to even be a possibility...
An amazing pandigital approximation to e that is correct to 18457734525360901453873570 decimal digits found by R. Sabey in 2004.
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1945026/an-amazing-approximation-of-e
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMo7jUs0GMs
Very neat demo of org-mode code blocks.
"We want a temporary use permit for the clock, eventually -- 10,000-year temporary use permit."!
https://en.tiny.ted.com/talks/stewart_brand_on_the_long_now
Not long now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjofYotlaY0
Some good stuff in this: tele-presence and the usefulness of not fully autonomous robots.
This thing was epic!
Amazing Apollo hardware.
Feynman discusses three equivalent representations of the theory of gravity.
Equivalent representations of physical theories drive the plot in Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life (made into the movie Arrival) (Fermat's principle of least time in that instance).
Chris Anderson interviews Linus Torvalds and they discuss Linux, Git and Open Source software.
Towering up above a forest near Moscow is the strange configuration of tubes that were once used as a shockingly powerful lightning machine.
via jwz
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/abandoned-marx-generator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istra_High_Voltage_Research_Center
https://www.rt.com/news/181748-tesla-marx-generator-lightning/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_generator
A zoo in Ontario, Canada has found that elephants have fun playing in the snow. Cheetahs, on the other hand, aren't so excited.
Fascinating look at the similarities and differences between the wealthiest and poorest people around the world.
Even more cold-war craziness.
A pretty amazing spacecraft, especially the auto-pilot and reusable Energia rockets.
"Problems are inevitable. Problems are solvable. Solutions create new problems."
Intro/basic refresher video from Antranik that passed through my feeds.
TED talk on some pretty neat autonomous aircraft delivering medical supplies in East Africa.
TED talk from 2010.
TED talk from 2011.
2010 TED talk.
"The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader."