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This is a follow on from my previous post  The Plan . Preamble These posts are me sharing my internal voyage of discovery regarding facts about the universe and physics. They are not a description of reality. My thoughts lead to conclusions that disagree with agreed scientific facts (hopefully, where I know this, I make this plain), and therefore a lot of what I say here is almost certainly incorrect. You probably shouldn't read this blog, and you should double check anything I say before repeating it to anyone else. Also I'm very lazy and like to shorten words or phrases that I'm going to by typing a lot as acronyms. I indicate this by putting the acronym in brackets after the first mention, from then on I will probably just use the acronym. E.g. Rather than typing black hole(BH) multiple times I'll just put BH (or I might type it out in full for no reason). I'm also going down a few rabbit hole diversions, so I'll highlight them in light blue so you ca...

This is a story about physics, a slightly hostile alien race, and a really big black hole. But really its not a story at all but a bunch of questions. Questions I'm hoping someone cleverer and more learned than I can answer. If you think you have the answers please post them below. The story starts with an alien race, a type 3 on the Kardashev scale. This particular alien race happens to have a presence in our galaxy and the story starts as they become aware of our existence. Their astronomers detect our planet and our existence on it, probably by the effect we have had on our atmosphere, but maybe also by our radio emissions. Once detected they go into full scale investigation and determine we will eventually become a threat to them if left unchecked. Reports are written by their scientists and handed up to their governing structure. Estimates of how long before we start to expand outward into other star systems and how long before we, or our AI, start to turn the entire gal...

From:  Samuel Price To:  Ben Redknap <benr@ASA.Org.UK> Sent:  Sunday, 3 March 2019, 00:16:56 GMT Subject:  Re: Your ASA reference A19-561662 Toyota Please could you reconsider the case, I believe you are missing the point I address some of you comments in-line below but also consider this: It is scientifically possible to produce petrol from the products contained in the exhaust of a vehicle. To do so would require specialised equipment and energy, but theoretically I could build a car that took energy, say from a generator attached to the wheels that was powered by the act of braking, and use that to create a small amount of petrol from exhaust gases that I had stored from previously driving. You are saying that it would be fine for me to market this vehicle as "self fuelling" because my contraption puts fuel back in the tank when I brake? I think this would be very misleading to the general public because in reality all I've done is u...

Ben Redknap  <benr@ASA.Org.UK> To: 27 Feb at 09:21 Dear Mr Price Thank you for contacting us about the   Toyota ad and for your patience whilst we have been considering your complaint. We asked the  ASA Council  to make a decision on a similar issue to the one you have raised, however after careful consideration, they decided that no further action should be taken. The Issue(s) Seven members of the public objected to five online ads: Three complainants believed the claims, “self charging” in ads A, C, D and E were misleading, because they implied the car was electric and, therefore, environmentally friendly. One complainant believed the claim, “self charging” in ad B was misleading, as it implied that the car could take itself to a charging station. Three complainants believed the claims “self charging” in ads B and E were misleading, because the “charge” came from petrol. One complainant believed th...

TLDR: Starlink is super awesome, will result in mega mega joy joy for all internet users, but also faces some hard issues to get approved by governments. Introduction If you don't know what Starlink is,  Wikipedia  has a pretty good explanation. But I want to focus on some major 'pros' vs other current internet choices and what I think could be a big problem. Starlink is a peer to peer satellite based internet service. Each user has a 'ground station' that uplinks to the satellite (SL) network. The SL network routes the data across itself rather than the ground and only goes back to earth for the final leg of the journey. If you were communicating with another SL customer this would mean the data would never go over any earth based wires. Pros Latency The SL network, being in space, can reduce the hops required to route your data. Each router that your data has to pass through introduces a little bit of lag. Therefore less hops = less lag. ...

Why? I wanted to model how to fire something at the earth-moon L1 Lagrange point and have it enter a stable earth orbit. Also for fun. Goals: Use high school maths plugged into C# with some kind of UI that lets me specify a speed, angle, and height to fire a projectile to be caught by the moons gravity and dragged into a stable earth orbit. Add frictional simulation to model the effects of the earths atmosphere. Planned steps: Create a Newtonian calculator that returns gravitic forces given object of specified mass and distance. Use temporary unit tests to verify outputs. Create a vector calculator that can calculate a final vector given a number of input vectors. Use temporary unit tests to verify outputs. Create models to represent bodies including vectors and influences. Create a UI and controller classes that can specify bodies and vectors Create a calculator class that loops through the specified bodies and calculates new positions given the starting vectors...

Today I received the following message from Lyndall, the social media manager at Riversimple . I wanted to post their message in full and write a proper response which is below. Their message: Dear Sam, I manage the social media for Riversimple. We love the fact our channels are full of passionate dialogue; but are finding the persistence and volume of your posts hard to understand. I can tell you from a personal and professional perspective that I know the following about Riversimple: it was founded by someone who puts the environment first – all choices on powertrain made are guided by this, not to mention the business model and governance structure. The whole team are guided by the cornerstone of the business: “Mobility with zero cost to the planet.” Riversimple are not against measures to get people walking and cycling more; they aren’t anti people owning BEVs if they wish to. There is no campaign to derail these options. The path to a sustainable future is not an eith...