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LATimes: Joel Kotkin: Can California stop Big Tech from decamping for cheaper places?
jaymaron comments on Jan 4, 2021:
California has a tentacle tax. If you leave the state and make money later, they tax it.
They're extending the timespan to 10 years. Get out now!
If you spend more than 60 days in California, they claim you as a resident and tax you.
California has the highest state tax at 13%, and Texas has none. Tesla, Hewlett Packard,
Oracle, and Joe Rogan moved from California to Texas.
California used to export technology products, and now they export businesses and rich people.
California, Los Angeles, and San Francisco have colossal debts and they've lost their
property tax income. They will become desperate and increase taxes.
The article points out that California's energy price is twice that of Texas.
Lame! Energy begets raw materials, which beget manufactured goods, which beget
exports, which beget wealth. Your ability to generate wealth hinges on the price
of energy.
California has blackouts because they invested in solar and shunned nuclear.
Solar didn't pan out.
jaymaron comments on Jan 4, 2021:
California has a tentacle tax. If you leave the state and make money later, they tax it.
They're extending the timespan to 10 years. Get out now!
If you spend more than 60 days in California, they claim you as a resident and tax you.
California has the highest state tax at 13%, and Texas has none. Tesla, Hewlett Packard,
Oracle, and Joe Rogan moved from California to Texas.
California used to export technology products, and now they export businesses and rich people.
California, Los Angeles, and San Francisco have colossal debts and they've lost their
property tax income. They will become desperate and increase taxes.
The article points out that California's energy price is twice that of Texas.
Lame! Energy begets raw materials, which beget manufactured goods, which beget
exports, which beget wealth. Your ability to generate wealth hinges on the price
of energy.
California has blackouts because they invested in solar and shunned nuclear.
Solar didn't pan out.
MN Senator/Physician Blows Whistle: The Bizarre, Non-COVID Types of Deaths Being Blamed on COVID
...
jaymaron comments on Jan 4, 2021:
Tucker Carlson busted a New York hospital for inflating its Covid deaths, to obtain state money.
State money was tied to the number of Covid deaths that occurred at the hospital.
Turns out many of the Covid deaths were accompanied by pre-existing conditions, such as a bullet.
Using a crisis for political gain is "Political Looting". Civilization can only vanquish a crisis if people refrain from
using the crisis to loot. The chief enemies of civilization are political looters. Call them out on it.
jaymaron comments on Jan 4, 2021:
Tucker Carlson busted a New York hospital for inflating its Covid deaths, to obtain state money.
State money was tied to the number of Covid deaths that occurred at the hospital.
Turns out many of the Covid deaths were accompanied by pre-existing conditions, such as a bullet.
Using a crisis for political gain is "Political Looting". Civilization can only vanquish a crisis if people refrain from
using the crisis to loot. The chief enemies of civilization are political looters. Call them out on it.
I’ve often pondered the possibility that not only are we heading towards civil war, we're already ...
jaymaron comments on Jan 4, 2021:
Yes, education is a great place to fight locally.
The teachers unions are a mafia.
They oppose private school vouchers. In other words, they oppose fair competition.
They discriminate against good teachers that are conservatives, often
forming mobs to try to fire them. I formally level the charge that they are anti-education.
They tie pay to seniority and level of degree. Bull! The only legit pay scheme
is fair competition and student choice. Their pay scheme entrenches bad
teachers and blocks entry to new teachers. It's an unnecessary subsidy to the
teachers college industry.
Scrutiny of Jill Biden's thesis has exposed the fact that there are many teachers with an
Ed.D that suck.
To teach at public schools you need certification from a teacher's college. Bull!
Teachers unions embrace certification as a way to exclude competition, which they can't handle.
There are lots of great teachers that never attended a teacher's college.
Plus, teachers colleges suck because they're full of leftists. Why give money to these
turkeys?
In fact, if you have a REAL degree as opposed to a teacher's degree, you are likely to
be a better teacher. They make the principal's job easy. Just hire a physicist.
He can teach any science or math class. If a physicist wanted to, he could teach a
history class better than most history teachers.
Teacher's unions indoctrinate students to leftism, and they attack conservative
students. They hold leftists protests and let students out of school to
engage in leftist protests. Their goal is power, not education, and they are using
public resources to do it. This is political looting. Public school teachers should never indoctrinate. This is way way way not okay.
A smart red state would embrace vouchers and go all out in creating badass private schools.
Frustrated parents from blue states would send their kids to the red state's boarding schools.
What an industry!
A state's resources tend to get funneled into a leftist flagship university. Take that away.
build Institutes of Technology in rural territory. Leave the deadweight humanities departments
behind. We can read literature and study history on our own. Leave the tenured proessors behind.
There's no shortage of energetic young postdocs out there.
Teacher's unions oppose reopening schools. Lame. They like online teaching because they
don't have to work as hard. Lame!
There is a business called "MasteringPhysics" that offers online homework tools, and it costs
$80/student. In the old days, professors did the work of grading, and it was included in
tuition. Now, students have to pay extra for grading, and professors are doing less work. Lame!
Whenever I teach a class, MasteringPhysics calls to offer their services and I tell...
jaymaron comments on Jan 4, 2021:
Yes, education is a great place to fight locally.
The teachers unions are a mafia.
They oppose private school vouchers. In other words, they oppose fair competition.
They discriminate against good teachers that are conservatives, often
forming mobs to try to fire them. I formally level the charge that they are anti-education.
They tie pay to seniority and level of degree. Bull! The only legit pay scheme
is fair competition and student choice. Their pay scheme entrenches bad
teachers and blocks entry to new teachers. It's an unnecessary subsidy to the
teachers college industry.
Scrutiny of Jill Biden's thesis has exposed the fact that there are many teachers with an
Ed.D that suck.
To teach at public schools you need certification from a teacher's college. Bull!
Teachers unions embrace certification as a way to exclude competition, which they can't handle.
There are lots of great teachers that never attended a teacher's college.
Plus, teachers colleges suck because they're full of leftists. Why give money to these
turkeys?
In fact, if you have a REAL degree as opposed to a teacher's degree, you are likely to
be a better teacher. They make the principal's job easy. Just hire a physicist.
He can teach any science or math class. If a physicist wanted to, he could teach a
history class better than most history teachers.
Teacher's unions indoctrinate students to leftism, and they attack conservative
students. They hold leftists protests and let students out of school to
engage in leftist protests. Their goal is power, not education, and they are using
public resources to do it. This is political looting. Public school teachers should never indoctrinate. This is way way way not okay.
A smart red state would embrace vouchers and go all out in creating badass private schools.
Frustrated parents from blue states would send their kids to the red state's boarding schools.
What an industry!
A state's resources tend to get funneled into a leftist flagship university. Take that away.
build Institutes of Technology in rural territory. Leave the deadweight humanities departments
behind. We can read literature and study history on our own. Leave the tenured proessors behind.
There's no shortage of energetic young postdocs out there.
Teacher's unions oppose reopening schools. Lame. They like online teaching because they
don't have to work as hard. Lame!
There is a business called "MasteringPhysics" that offers online homework tools, and it costs
$80/student. In the old days, professors did the work of grading, and it was included in
tuition. Now, students have to pay extra for grading, and professors are doing less work. Lame!
Whenever I teach a class, MasteringPhysics calls to offer their services and I tell...
Project Veritas In Georgia!
jaymaron comments on Jan 4, 2021:
Baffling that there haven't been stings. Everyone knows democrats cheat, and they have been working to make cheating easy.
Stings should have been easy and Republicans should have set up a vast number of stings, well before the election.
What an opportunity that would have been. We need stings and scalps. We need red hands.
jaymaron comments on Jan 4, 2021:
Baffling that there haven't been stings. Everyone knows democrats cheat, and they have been working to make cheating easy.
Stings should have been easy and Republicans should have set up a vast number of stings, well before the election.
What an opportunity that would have been. We need stings and scalps. We need red hands.
Everyone is talking about Aliens lately, have you noticed that?
jaymaron comments on Jan 4, 2021:
The first alien intervention already happened and few noticed. Who saved
Earth's ass in World War 2? Hungarians! Hungarians turbocharged 20th century
physics, and such was the shock and awe that they were jestingly referred to as
"Martians". These fellows were: Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, John von Neumann,
Theodore von Karman, Paul Erdos, Eugene Wigner, Lorand Eotvos, and Cornelius
Lanczos.
The MVP of World War 2 was Szilard, who invented the nuclear bomb. The conventional war
was irrelevant. We had the trump card.
Edward Teller was the father of America's fusion bomb program. You know him as "Dr. Strangelove".
In Hungary, mathematics was as prestigious as wrestling is in the midwest.
The winners of mathematics contests were treated like celebrities. Szilard got his start
as the high school mathematics champion of Hungary.
Physics of World War 2: https://www.jaymaron.com/ww2.html
From Angels and Demons:
Catholic Cardinal : We thank The Lord for sending you to save this church.
Langdon: I don't think that the lord sent me.
Catholic Cardinal: Of course he did.
jaymaron comments on Jan 4, 2021:
The first alien intervention already happened and few noticed. Who saved
Earth's ass in World War 2? Hungarians! Hungarians turbocharged 20th century
physics, and such was the shock and awe that they were jestingly referred to as
"Martians". These fellows were: Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, John von Neumann,
Theodore von Karman, Paul Erdos, Eugene Wigner, Lorand Eotvos, and Cornelius
Lanczos.
The MVP of World War 2 was Szilard, who invented the nuclear bomb. The conventional war
was irrelevant. We had the trump card.
Edward Teller was the father of America's fusion bomb program. You know him as "Dr. Strangelove".
In Hungary, mathematics was as prestigious as wrestling is in the midwest.
The winners of mathematics contests were treated like celebrities. Szilard got his start
as the high school mathematics champion of Hungary.
Physics of World War 2: https://www.jaymaron.com/ww2.html
From Angels and Demons:
Catholic Cardinal : We thank The Lord for sending you to save this church.
Langdon: I don't think that the lord sent me.
Catholic Cardinal: Of course he did.
Everyone is talking about Aliens lately, have you noticed that?
jaymaron comments on Jan 4, 2021:
Most stars are billions of years older than the sun. Alien civilizations likely have
a head start on us by billions of years. It takes only 1 million years to cross the galaxy
with a fission or fusion drive (speed of .1 C). If the aliens wanted to be here, they would be.
There is a Star Trek episode with a Doomsday Machine that roams the galaxy destroying
planets. The aliens could do this if they wanted and we wouldn't be able to stop it.
The Doomsday Machine would have wiped us out before we got to multicellular life.
Hence one of the few things that can be said for certain about aliens is that there is
no Doomsday Machine.
Movies about aliens often feature an alien ship that crashes on the Earth.
Bull. If the aliens can build a starship then they're not going to crash.
The colonial era was different. Europe was ahead of the rest of the world but
not yet badass enough to make ships that can't be sunk by a storm, and so
the natives were often treated to a crashed European ship on their beach.
The American Indians couldn't make copper or iron. Most of their metal came from storm-destroyed Japanese ships that crashed on the coast.
I flat out disbelieve all UFO sightings. We're not going to see anything unless the
aliens want us to see it. If the UFO sighting are real then it's because the aliens
are trolling us.
Enough with the damn obelisks. I'm not impressed unless the obelisk does something cool, such as
Be a stargate.
Have a proof of the Riemann hypothesis written on it.
Be capable of igniting Jupiter into a star.
Be a hyperadvanced gamestation.
Be hooked up to the galactic movie streaming network.
Have the answer to the question of the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.
People reflexively assume that colonialism is bad. Bull. A synergistic
relationship is possible.
Number of people that 1 km^2 of land can support:
American Indians (hunter gatherers) = 1
18th Century Europeans = 10 (Agriculture and livestock)
20th Century American farmers = 50 = (Mechanization, fertilizer, genetic engineering, pesticides)
Hydroponics = 200
European agriculture expanded the carrying capacity of the land. There was
plenty of land for everyone. A mutually good deal was possible.
Many native tribes joined America in wars against more hostile Indian
tribes. You don't hear about these tribes.
When the aliens come, I'm getting on board their ship and leaving this
provincial planet. I'm going to the Galactic Institute of Technology. I'm
waving a towel around.
My hypothesis is that the aliens are here, watching us, and that they have a
Prime Directive of non-interference. They don't need to interfere because...
jaymaron comments on Jan 4, 2021:
Most stars are billions of years older than the sun. Alien civilizations likely have
a head start on us by billions of years. It takes only 1 million years to cross the galaxy
with a fission or fusion drive (speed of .1 C). If the aliens wanted to be here, they would be.
There is a Star Trek episode with a Doomsday Machine that roams the galaxy destroying
planets. The aliens could do this if they wanted and we wouldn't be able to stop it.
The Doomsday Machine would have wiped us out before we got to multicellular life.
Hence one of the few things that can be said for certain about aliens is that there is
no Doomsday Machine.
Movies about aliens often feature an alien ship that crashes on the Earth.
Bull. If the aliens can build a starship then they're not going to crash.
The colonial era was different. Europe was ahead of the rest of the world but
not yet badass enough to make ships that can't be sunk by a storm, and so
the natives were often treated to a crashed European ship on their beach.
The American Indians couldn't make copper or iron. Most of their metal came from storm-destroyed Japanese ships that crashed on the coast.
I flat out disbelieve all UFO sightings. We're not going to see anything unless the
aliens want us to see it. If the UFO sighting are real then it's because the aliens
are trolling us.
Enough with the damn obelisks. I'm not impressed unless the obelisk does something cool, such as
Be a stargate.
Have a proof of the Riemann hypothesis written on it.
Be capable of igniting Jupiter into a star.
Be a hyperadvanced gamestation.
Be hooked up to the galactic movie streaming network.
Have the answer to the question of the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.
People reflexively assume that colonialism is bad. Bull. A synergistic
relationship is possible.
Number of people that 1 km^2 of land can support:
American Indians (hunter gatherers) = 1
18th Century Europeans = 10 (Agriculture and livestock)
20th Century American farmers = 50 = (Mechanization, fertilizer, genetic engineering, pesticides)
Hydroponics = 200
European agriculture expanded the carrying capacity of the land. There was
plenty of land for everyone. A mutually good deal was possible.
Many native tribes joined America in wars against more hostile Indian
tribes. You don't hear about these tribes.
When the aliens come, I'm getting on board their ship and leaving this
provincial planet. I'm going to the Galactic Institute of Technology. I'm
waving a towel around.
My hypothesis is that the aliens are here, watching us, and that they have a
Prime Directive of non-interference. They don't need to interfere because...
I would still do it. It's so much fun! 🤣
jaymaron comments on Jan 3, 2021:
That was the sound effect for Ozzy Osbourne's "I Am Iron Man!", and for the daleks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iDoAkWT3L8
jaymaron comments on Jan 3, 2021:
That was the sound effect for Ozzy Osbourne's "I Am Iron Man!", and for the daleks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iDoAkWT3L8
[opb.
jaymaron comments on Jan 3, 2021:
America has a fine tradition of local militias. In the revolutionary war, local militias
spontaneously became the Continental Army. We didn't need a draft. We had a flood of
volunteers.
With the police being defunded, the solution is to be a member of a local militia.
jaymaron comments on Jan 3, 2021:
America has a fine tradition of local militias. In the revolutionary war, local militias
spontaneously became the Continental Army. We didn't need a draft. We had a flood of
volunteers.
With the police being defunded, the solution is to be a member of a local militia.
What did you learn in 2020?
jaymaron comments on Jan 3, 2021:
We could go Asimov-style psychohistory on this and attempt to predict the
future. Anticipation of the future is necessary for constructing policy
today. Baffling that politicians ignore the future. People with a successful
record for predicting the future should be heeded and those that don't should
be shunned.
What are the driving forces?
Excommunication: There is a set of intolerant people that socially excludes
conservatives, and this will lead to a social schism of American
society. Excommunication is a powerful weapon until the point where the
excommunicated form their own protestant church, then it's game over. The set
of excommunicators used to be small but now it's large, large enough to achieve
critical mass and to drive conservatives extinct at many institutions. The
situation is so extreme that conservatives will be forced to create their own
institutions. We will see new Institutes of Technology in red rural land.
Tax: California has the highest state tax and Texas has none. Moving vans flow from
California to Texas. California once exported technology products and they now export
businesses and rich people. In general, blue states have higher tax than red states.
Debt: Blue cities and states have vastly more debt than red cities and states. Debt plus
exodus will lead to the bankruptcy of many blue cities and states. It's as inevitable as
the collapse of the Roman Empire and of the Galactic Empire.
Party instability: What's worse than a 2 party system? A 1 party system. The
American 2 party system used to be stable because if a party went too extreme,
the voters would choose the other party, to restore balance. Such an electorate
would today vote to keep the senate republican, just to balance democrat power.
Now it's the other way around. Democrats make no attempt to appeal to
republican voters, and leftism evolves leftward, by nature. The democratic
party will escalate leftward until moderate democrats find themselves
refugees, and they will flee to the republican party. In general, the farther
you push a system from its balance point, the harder it fights back.
Once upon a time, parties didn't try to destroy each other, because
mudslinging backfired. Now it's different. The democratic party will use
their power to tilt the playing field so that republicans can never win
again. This forces the secession of red states. Secession is inevitable.
Ways that democrats will tilt the field:
Create new blue states, such as DC and Puerto Rico
Make it easy to cheat in elections
Censor conservatives
Destroy small businesses
Destroy the middle class
Destroy American industry by weakening America's export prowess
Excommunicate conservatives socially
Destroy the hydrocarbon energy sector, ...
jaymaron comments on Jan 3, 2021:
We could go Asimov-style psychohistory on this and attempt to predict the
future. Anticipation of the future is necessary for constructing policy
today. Baffling that politicians ignore the future. People with a successful
record for predicting the future should be heeded and those that don't should
be shunned.
What are the driving forces?
Excommunication: There is a set of intolerant people that socially excludes
conservatives, and this will lead to a social schism of American
society. Excommunication is a powerful weapon until the point where the
excommunicated form their own protestant church, then it's game over. The set
of excommunicators used to be small but now it's large, large enough to achieve
critical mass and to drive conservatives extinct at many institutions. The
situation is so extreme that conservatives will be forced to create their own
institutions. We will see new Institutes of Technology in red rural land.
Tax: California has the highest state tax and Texas has none. Moving vans flow from
California to Texas. California once exported technology products and they now export
businesses and rich people. In general, blue states have higher tax than red states.
Debt: Blue cities and states have vastly more debt than red cities and states. Debt plus
exodus will lead to the bankruptcy of many blue cities and states. It's as inevitable as
the collapse of the Roman Empire and of the Galactic Empire.
Party instability: What's worse than a 2 party system? A 1 party system. The
American 2 party system used to be stable because if a party went too extreme,
the voters would choose the other party, to restore balance. Such an electorate
would today vote to keep the senate republican, just to balance democrat power.
Now it's the other way around. Democrats make no attempt to appeal to
republican voters, and leftism evolves leftward, by nature. The democratic
party will escalate leftward until moderate democrats find themselves
refugees, and they will flee to the republican party. In general, the farther
you push a system from its balance point, the harder it fights back.
Once upon a time, parties didn't try to destroy each other, because
mudslinging backfired. Now it's different. The democratic party will use
their power to tilt the playing field so that republicans can never win
again. This forces the secession of red states. Secession is inevitable.
Ways that democrats will tilt the field:
Create new blue states, such as DC and Puerto Rico
Make it easy to cheat in elections
Censor conservatives
Destroy small businesses
Destroy the middle class
Destroy American industry by weakening America's export prowess
Excommunicate conservatives socially
Destroy the hydrocarbon energy sector, ...
UniverseToday: Steampunk satellites.
jaymaron comments on Jan 3, 2021:
Exhaust speed in km/s:
Hydrazine N2H4 = 2.2
Hydrogen peroxide O2H2 = 1.6
Kerosene + O2H2 = 3.2
Steampunk steam = 1.8
Steampunk exhaust is slower than hydrazine monopropellant, but according to
the article, it's simpler to build. For satellites, it's understandable to emphasize
reliability.
Part of the advantage of steampunk is that the rocket is lightweight, more lightweight than a monopropellant rocket. The rocket
has a mass of 1.44 kg. This improves the energy/mass of the rocket+fuel system.
Energy/mass trumps exhaust speed.
The lightweight rocket also allows it to be put on a tiny satellite.
They need to increase the temperature. Exhaust speed = V ~ T^{1/2}.
The temperature is 1075 K. Surely they can do better than that.
The future of power in space hinges on high-temperature engineering, and harnessing
nuclear power.
Rocket propellants: https://www.jaymaron.com/explosives.html
jaymaron comments on Jan 3, 2021:
Exhaust speed in km/s:
Hydrazine N2H4 = 2.2
Hydrogen peroxide O2H2 = 1.6
Kerosene + O2H2 = 3.2
Steampunk steam = 1.8
Steampunk exhaust is slower than hydrazine monopropellant, but according to
the article, it's simpler to build. For satellites, it's understandable to emphasize
reliability.
Part of the advantage of steampunk is that the rocket is lightweight, more lightweight than a monopropellant rocket. The rocket
has a mass of 1.44 kg. This improves the energy/mass of the rocket+fuel system.
Energy/mass trumps exhaust speed.
The lightweight rocket also allows it to be put on a tiny satellite.
They need to increase the temperature. Exhaust speed = V ~ T^{1/2}.
The temperature is 1075 K. Surely they can do better than that.
The future of power in space hinges on high-temperature engineering, and harnessing
nuclear power.
Rocket propellants: https://www.jaymaron.com/explosives.html
America's hospitals to publish the secret prices on more than 300 medical procedures for first time-...
jaymaron comments on Jan 3, 2021:
The ladies of "Gossip Girl" never looked at prices when they shopped.
The rest of us would like to see the price on each item.
And if you get to the cash register and they increase the price, you simply don't buy it.
You can't do that with a hospital bill because the work has already been done.
Cost bundling also has to be fought.
Universities have the same problem. Plus, the K-12 teacher's unions are a
protectionist mafia, in their opposition to private school vouchers. Vouchers
are necessary because you need consumer choice.
jaymaron comments on Jan 3, 2021:
The ladies of "Gossip Girl" never looked at prices when they shopped.
The rest of us would like to see the price on each item.
And if you get to the cash register and they increase the price, you simply don't buy it.
You can't do that with a hospital bill because the work has already been done.
Cost bundling also has to be fought.
Universities have the same problem. Plus, the K-12 teacher's unions are a
protectionist mafia, in their opposition to private school vouchers. Vouchers
are necessary because you need consumer choice.
The Iron Pyrite State
jaymaron comments on Jan 3, 2021:
California used to export technology products and now they export businesses. The governor of
Texas loves to boast about all the California businesses they poached.
California has blackouts because they invested in solar when they should have invested
in nuclear and biomass. They can't turn the power on because the power lines start fires.
They can't bury the power lines because the utilities are billions in debt.
They can't clear the forests because the state is in debt.
The amount of energy lost to California forest fires rivals the energy produced by the state's
power stations.
The transcontinental railway was completed in 1869. Today, California still doesn't have a
commuter rail line connecting LA and SF. People do it with gas-guzzling airplanes.
California has abundant water and they don't harness it because they'd rather protect the
delta smelt fish. California has great land for wine and nuts but they can't irrigate it.
California should dam the San Joaquin river and turn it into a freshwater reservoir, and then build
a monster aqueduct to move that water around the state.
California is a failed civilization.
jaymaron comments on Jan 3, 2021:
California used to export technology products and now they export businesses. The governor of
Texas loves to boast about all the California businesses they poached.
California has blackouts because they invested in solar when they should have invested
in nuclear and biomass. They can't turn the power on because the power lines start fires.
They can't bury the power lines because the utilities are billions in debt.
They can't clear the forests because the state is in debt.
The amount of energy lost to California forest fires rivals the energy produced by the state's
power stations.
The transcontinental railway was completed in 1869. Today, California still doesn't have a
commuter rail line connecting LA and SF. People do it with gas-guzzling airplanes.
California has abundant water and they don't harness it because they'd rather protect the
delta smelt fish. California has great land for wine and nuts but they can't irrigate it.
California should dam the San Joaquin river and turn it into a freshwater reservoir, and then build
a monster aqueduct to move that water around the state.
California is a failed civilization.
RedState: Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler finally speaks out against Antifa.
[redstate.com]
jaymaron comments on Jan 3, 2021:
One of the reasons Churchill became prime minister is because he foresaw Hitler's evil a decade
before everyone else.
jaymaron comments on Jan 3, 2021:
One of the reasons Churchill became prime minister is because he foresaw Hitler's evil a decade
before everyone else.
NASA’s New “Metallic Glass” Gears Can Withstand Impact, Freezing Temperatures During Lunar ...
jaymaron comments on Jan 2, 2021:
Amorphous metals are stronger than crystalline metals, and there also exist
amorphous metals that have a vastly higher value for ferromagnetism than standard metals.
This is critical for electric generators, which have a poor power/mass of 100 Watts/kg.
It will improve the power/mass.
In space, power/mass is critical. We need amorphous metal to turbocharge radioisotope
generators.
jaymaron comments on Jan 2, 2021:
Amorphous metals are stronger than crystalline metals, and there also exist
amorphous metals that have a vastly higher value for ferromagnetism than standard metals.
This is critical for electric generators, which have a poor power/mass of 100 Watts/kg.
It will improve the power/mass.
In space, power/mass is critical. We need amorphous metal to turbocharge radioisotope
generators.
[infowars.
jaymaron comments on Jan 2, 2021:
Think like the UK. They kept Europe tame by playing off European powers against each other.
The only thing holding the democratic party together is hate of conservatives. But the democratic
party is a powder keg of conflicting tribes. Light that fuse.
Once the keg goes off, moderate democrats will be refugees and they will flee to the republican party.
James Bond: The CIA really carved up this country, didn't it?"
Felix Leiter: Coming from a Brit, I take that as a compliment.
jaymaron comments on Jan 2, 2021:
Think like the UK. They kept Europe tame by playing off European powers against each other.
The only thing holding the democratic party together is hate of conservatives. But the democratic
party is a powder keg of conflicting tribes. Light that fuse.
Once the keg goes off, moderate democrats will be refugees and they will flee to the republican party.
James Bond: The CIA really carved up this country, didn't it?"
Felix Leiter: Coming from a Brit, I take that as a compliment.
Do politically aware Canadians think Canada is destroyed, or will likely be taken over by China?
jaymaron comments on Jan 2, 2021:
Analysis, anyone?
In America, rural is conservative and urban is leftist.
In Canada it appears to be the other way around. What's going on?
If Canada had a secession party, how would it go?
In America, secession would start with red states that aren't hobbled by a big blue city.
Then they steal rural land from neighboring states, leaving the cities behind. Then, form a league
with the conservative territories in Canada that seceded from Canada.
Once upon a time college football had a secession party, when the conferences realigned.
jaymaron comments on Jan 2, 2021:
Analysis, anyone?
In America, rural is conservative and urban is leftist.
In Canada it appears to be the other way around. What's going on?
If Canada had a secession party, how would it go?
In America, secession would start with red states that aren't hobbled by a big blue city.
Then they steal rural land from neighboring states, leaving the cities behind. Then, form a league
with the conservative territories in Canada that seceded from Canada.
Once upon a time college football had a secession party, when the conferences realigned.
SpaceNews: White House releases planetary protection strategy
The White House released a ...
jaymaron comments on Jan 1, 2021:
The NASA person in charge of worrying about this is called the "Planetary Protection Officer".
jaymaron comments on Jan 1, 2021:
The NASA person in charge of worrying about this is called the "Planetary Protection Officer".
StrategyPage: South Korean super subs.
jaymaron comments on Jan 1, 2021:
Thank you for all that beautiful technical detail.
Air independent propulsion is gasoline + liquid oxygen. It works great.
The range is pretty good.
If you're a defense-oriented nation like India, Japan, South Korea, and The Philippines, then
air-independent propulsion has plenty of range. The subs are never far from a refueling point.
Nuclear propulsion is great because it enables you to circumnavigate the globe many times
without refueling or surfacing, which is what America needs. But if you're a defense-minded
nation then you don't need it.
You don't even need air-independent propulsion. Lithium batteries are cheap enough that
you can have a lithium sub. Battery power is much better than gasoline power because
a gasoline generator is noisy and battery power is silent. For subs, power is important, but
stealth is even more important.
It's a law of physics that sound is more easily created and received in water than in air.
Subs are easy to detect by sound. Textbook on the physics of sound https://www.jaymaron.com/music.html
Stealth subs are important.
A lithium sub in defense mode has the luxury of being able to surface regularly to
use gasoline+air power to recharge the batteries.
The simpler the better. If I were the Prime Minister of Japan I would be hammering
lithium sub technology.
jaymaron comments on Jan 1, 2021:
Thank you for all that beautiful technical detail.
Air independent propulsion is gasoline + liquid oxygen. It works great.
The range is pretty good.
If you're a defense-oriented nation like India, Japan, South Korea, and The Philippines, then
air-independent propulsion has plenty of range. The subs are never far from a refueling point.
Nuclear propulsion is great because it enables you to circumnavigate the globe many times
without refueling or surfacing, which is what America needs. But if you're a defense-minded
nation then you don't need it.
You don't even need air-independent propulsion. Lithium batteries are cheap enough that
you can have a lithium sub. Battery power is much better than gasoline power because
a gasoline generator is noisy and battery power is silent. For subs, power is important, but
stealth is even more important.
It's a law of physics that sound is more easily created and received in water than in air.
Subs are easy to detect by sound. Textbook on the physics of sound https://www.jaymaron.com/music.html
Stealth subs are important.
A lithium sub in defense mode has the luxury of being able to surface regularly to
use gasoline+air power to recharge the batteries.
The simpler the better. If I were the Prime Minister of Japan I would be hammering
lithium sub technology.
Emotional arguments are often much more powerful than arguments based on logic and reason, largely ...
jaymaron comments on Jan 1, 2021:
Vulcan ambassador: Vulcans were once a warlike culture, even by Earth standards.
It was so bad that the only way out was to go all in on logic.
Many democrats argue by feelings. Many Republicans feel good when they listen to Trump.
Democrats should take the trouble to understand this feeling. It's a matter of sensitivity,
not right or wrong.
Ann Coulter wrote a mighty work of psychological insight called "Adios America", where she
exhibits the feelings of Red America. It's historically significant because Trump read it just
before he declared his candidacy for president. Trump had the sensitivity to know how Americans feel.
Anytime you get bullied with feelings, fight back by pointing out that sensitivity is more important than feelings.
Hillary has the sensitivity of an anvil, like when she said "why aren't I 50 points ahead", and with
the "deplorables" gaffe.
I've found as a pop scientist that logic isn't enough. Most people don't listen to logic unless
you add emotional content.
jaymaron comments on Jan 1, 2021:
Vulcan ambassador: Vulcans were once a warlike culture, even by Earth standards.
It was so bad that the only way out was to go all in on logic.
Many democrats argue by feelings. Many Republicans feel good when they listen to Trump.
Democrats should take the trouble to understand this feeling. It's a matter of sensitivity,
not right or wrong.
Ann Coulter wrote a mighty work of psychological insight called "Adios America", where she
exhibits the feelings of Red America. It's historically significant because Trump read it just
before he declared his candidacy for president. Trump had the sensitivity to know how Americans feel.
Anytime you get bullied with feelings, fight back by pointing out that sensitivity is more important than feelings.
Hillary has the sensitivity of an anvil, like when she said "why aren't I 50 points ahead", and with
the "deplorables" gaffe.
I've found as a pop scientist that logic isn't enough. Most people don't listen to logic unless
you add emotional content.
Ever wonder where politicians and media get their prediction of 12 years to stop climate change or ...
jaymaron comments on Jan 1, 2021:
Every year we are told that this is the magic year where solar cells will become economically
viable, and that the government should treat them like the messiah. This has going on for years.
Each year brings only meager solar gains, and the gains are far too feeble to impact
American power. They're saying the same thing this year, of course, but I just tabulated the
numbers for 2020 in https://www.jaymaron.com/earth.html#energy2020
up to date as of yesterday, and the harsh fact is that solar gains this year were meager.
Hold the solar advocates to this failed prediction. Do not let them squirm out of it.
California has regular blackouts because they invested in solar when they should have invested
in nuclear and biomass (clear the forests and use the energy).
The Trump energy miracle: American energy made big gains in 2017, 2018, and 2019, and
the gains were preserved in 2020, in spite of the plague. Energy is the most important
aspect of the economy, the source of wealth. Yay Trump!
jaymaron comments on Jan 1, 2021:
Every year we are told that this is the magic year where solar cells will become economically
viable, and that the government should treat them like the messiah. This has going on for years.
Each year brings only meager solar gains, and the gains are far too feeble to impact
American power. They're saying the same thing this year, of course, but I just tabulated the
numbers for 2020 in https://www.jaymaron.com/earth.html#energy2020
up to date as of yesterday, and the harsh fact is that solar gains this year were meager.
Hold the solar advocates to this failed prediction. Do not let them squirm out of it.
California has regular blackouts because they invested in solar when they should have invested
in nuclear and biomass (clear the forests and use the energy).
The Trump energy miracle: American energy made big gains in 2017, 2018, and 2019, and
the gains were preserved in 2020, in spite of the plague. Energy is the most important
aspect of the economy, the source of wealth. Yay Trump!
Anyone else hear about this one?
jaymaron comments on Dec 31, 2020:
International law is whatever Trump says it is.
The United States is the reason other countries have borders.
jaymaron comments on Dec 31, 2020:
International law is whatever Trump says it is.
The United States is the reason other countries have borders.
I'm dropping this post here because this is the largest group.
jaymaron comments on Dec 30, 2020:
World War 2 was one hell of a common experience.
And it made heroes. There were Americans who flew their aircraft over the
Japanese ships, in the face of anti-aircraft fire. Americans who paratrooped
behind enemy lines on D Day. These Americans got to walk in the parade.
What a disappointment to have battled in the jungles of Vietnam and return
to vilification. No parade.
America used to win, and it rewarded winners.
Jackson won at New Orleans and became president.
Teddy Roosevelt won in Cuba and became president.
Jefferson doubled the size of the United States with the Louisiana Purchase.
Polk doubled it again, by conquering Mexico.
George Washington won the Revolutionary War and became president.
Ulysses Grant won the Civil War and became president.
Reagan and Bush I vanquished the Soviet Empire.
Jimmy Carter contributed to American military might by creating the Navy's
nuclear propulsion program. Jimmy is chiefly known as a peanut farmer but he is
also a badass nuclear physicist. Wars are won by physicists. Read the biography of
Szilard.
Dwight Eisenhower was the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe for World War 2, and he won,
and he subsequently became president.
Gerald Ford fought in World War 2. Also of significance is that he was a starter
on the Michigan national champion football team.
Richard Nixon was tapped by the Republican party because of his heroism in
World War 2.
Franklin Roosevelt applied to serve in the military and was rejected. Alas. But he
has the distinction of winning World War 2, and he did it while sitting in a
wheelchair. Like Bran the Broken. Bet you can name a large number of generals
from World War 2. That's because we won.
James Madison, while president, went out into the field and personally commanded the
troops in the War of 1812.
John Kennedy earned a Purple Heart in World War 2. Also, during the Cuban Missile Crisis,
he stared down the Soviets.
John McCain courageously flew his aircraft over the target in Vietnam.
Some made it back home with their aircraft, and some didn't. They are all
heroes. One of these heroes is John McCain. Another is Bush II.
Abraham Lincoln Lincoln won the Civil War, and it happened because of his
skill in harnessing new war technology, such as the rifled bullet, the auto reloading
rifle, the rail system, and the telegraph. Lincoln spent hours every day in the telegraph office personally directing the war.
Lincoln was a formidable wrestler. The left likes to rewrite history. I can
too. As far as I'm concerned, Lincoln was *actually* a Vampire Hunter.
Jesus there are a lot of badass military American presidents. I haven't even gotten to
William Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin ...
jaymaron comments on Dec 30, 2020:
World War 2 was one hell of a common experience.
And it made heroes. There were Americans who flew their aircraft over the
Japanese ships, in the face of anti-aircraft fire. Americans who paratrooped
behind enemy lines on D Day. These Americans got to walk in the parade.
What a disappointment to have battled in the jungles of Vietnam and return
to vilification. No parade.
America used to win, and it rewarded winners.
Jackson won at New Orleans and became president.
Teddy Roosevelt won in Cuba and became president.
Jefferson doubled the size of the United States with the Louisiana Purchase.
Polk doubled it again, by conquering Mexico.
George Washington won the Revolutionary War and became president.
Ulysses Grant won the Civil War and became president.
Reagan and Bush I vanquished the Soviet Empire.
Jimmy Carter contributed to American military might by creating the Navy's
nuclear propulsion program. Jimmy is chiefly known as a peanut farmer but he is
also a badass nuclear physicist. Wars are won by physicists. Read the biography of
Szilard.
Dwight Eisenhower was the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe for World War 2, and he won,
and he subsequently became president.
Gerald Ford fought in World War 2. Also of significance is that he was a starter
on the Michigan national champion football team.
Richard Nixon was tapped by the Republican party because of his heroism in
World War 2.
Franklin Roosevelt applied to serve in the military and was rejected. Alas. But he
has the distinction of winning World War 2, and he did it while sitting in a
wheelchair. Like Bran the Broken. Bet you can name a large number of generals
from World War 2. That's because we won.
James Madison, while president, went out into the field and personally commanded the
troops in the War of 1812.
John Kennedy earned a Purple Heart in World War 2. Also, during the Cuban Missile Crisis,
he stared down the Soviets.
John McCain courageously flew his aircraft over the target in Vietnam.
Some made it back home with their aircraft, and some didn't. They are all
heroes. One of these heroes is John McCain. Another is Bush II.
Abraham Lincoln Lincoln won the Civil War, and it happened because of his
skill in harnessing new war technology, such as the rifled bullet, the auto reloading
rifle, the rail system, and the telegraph. Lincoln spent hours every day in the telegraph office personally directing the war.
Lincoln was a formidable wrestler. The left likes to rewrite history. I can
too. As far as I'm concerned, Lincoln was *actually* a Vampire Hunter.
Jesus there are a lot of badass military American presidents. I haven't even gotten to
William Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin ...
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The new green proposal that could make your home unsellable
jaymaron comments on Dec 30, 2020:
Let's make a list of nice things that the government won't let us have.
Plastic straws
Windows
High-pressure shower heads
Christmas
Incandescent light bulbs
Statues
Gasoline powered cars
Natural gas heating
Restaurants
Gyms
Bear wrestling
Texting while walking (Hawaii, New Jersey)
Dueling (West Virginia)
Vampires (Louisiana)
Drunken mining (Wyoming)
Can anyone think of more?
jaymaron comments on Dec 30, 2020:
Let's make a list of nice things that the government won't let us have.
Plastic straws
Windows
High-pressure shower heads
Christmas
Incandescent light bulbs
Statues
Gasoline powered cars
Natural gas heating
Restaurants
Gyms
Bear wrestling
Texting while walking (Hawaii, New Jersey)
Dueling (West Virginia)
Vampires (Louisiana)
Drunken mining (Wyoming)
Can anyone think of more?
I felt the tremors myself, but I'm about 200 km away from epicentar of new Earthquake in Croatia, so...
jaymaron comments on Dec 29, 2020:
Thank you for the detailed report.
Croatia is not traditionally earthquake prone.
jaymaron.com/disaster.html https://www.jaymaron.com/disaster.html
jaymaron comments on Dec 29, 2020:
Thank you for the detailed report.
Croatia is not traditionally earthquake prone.
jaymaron.com/disaster.html https://www.jaymaron.com/disaster.html
WarOnTheRocks: BRAHMAPUTRA: A CONFLICT-PRONE RIVER TAKES A STEP BACKWARDS
China's latest ...
jaymaron comments on Dec 27, 2020:
Yes, this is a powderkeg. China has water in the south and not the north, and they're building canals
to move water north. They're likely already secretly siphoning the Bhramaputra.
https://www.jaymaron.com/river.html
jaymaron comments on Dec 27, 2020:
Yes, this is a powderkeg. China has water in the south and not the north, and they're building canals
to move water north. They're likely already secretly siphoning the Bhramaputra.
https://www.jaymaron.com/river.html
Warning: your food supply will soon be controlled
You can actually grow seeds and grains of ...
jaymaron comments on Dec 27, 2020:
Trump rolled back regulations on shower heads and he loves to talk about it.
"I have a great head of hair and I need a lot of water".
The regulations force shower heads to be low pressure. So of course you spend more time
in the shower.
Any government that that restricts water is a failure.
The Obama "Waters of the United States" act was a debacle. It prevented farmers from building a
pond for their livestock to drink from, and it prevented them from doing landscape engineering.
Even the livestock is thirsty under democrat rule.
jaymaron comments on Dec 27, 2020:
Trump rolled back regulations on shower heads and he loves to talk about it.
"I have a great head of hair and I need a lot of water".
The regulations force shower heads to be low pressure. So of course you spend more time
in the shower.
Any government that that restricts water is a failure.
The Obama "Waters of the United States" act was a debacle. It prevented farmers from building a
pond for their livestock to drink from, and it prevented them from doing landscape engineering.
Even the livestock is thirsty under democrat rule.
Do you think Democrats are more of a feminine mindset and Republicans are more of a masculine ...
jaymaron comments on Dec 27, 2020:
Once upon a time, it was a virtue to not whine. People who whined too much
were looked down upon. If someone was whining all you had to do was say "don't be such a whiner"
and he would shut up. Nobody wanted to be a whiner.
Now, whining is seen as a virtue. For people like that, there's no way to get through to them.
You call them a whiner and they take it as a compliment.
jaymaron comments on Dec 27, 2020:
Once upon a time, it was a virtue to not whine. People who whined too much
were looked down upon. If someone was whining all you had to do was say "don't be such a whiner"
and he would shut up. Nobody wanted to be a whiner.
Now, whining is seen as a virtue. For people like that, there's no way to get through to them.
You call them a whiner and they take it as a compliment.
Warning: your food supply will soon be controlled
You can actually grow seeds and grains of ...
jaymaron comments on Dec 26, 2020:
A study was made of the cost inputs for crops, comparing Iowa and Brazil.
Iowans pay bigly money for seeds because of seed patents.
The Brazilians genetically engineered their own seed,s customized for their climate, and they
pay far less for seeds.
In Iowa, half the cost is from land. In Brazil it's much less.
America is the king of fertilizer and pesticides.
Iowans pay for water and Brazilians don't.
Article: https://www.jaymaron.com/earth.html#soy
jaymaron comments on Dec 26, 2020:
A study was made of the cost inputs for crops, comparing Iowa and Brazil.
Iowans pay bigly money for seeds because of seed patents.
The Brazilians genetically engineered their own seed,s customized for their climate, and they
pay far less for seeds.
In Iowa, half the cost is from land. In Brazil it's much less.
America is the king of fertilizer and pesticides.
Iowans pay for water and Brazilians don't.
Article: https://www.jaymaron.com/earth.html#soy
The new food laws which have been imposed in China are draconian, almost prisoner-based and ...
jaymaron comments on Dec 26, 2020:
China doesn't have enough water to support its people agriculturally. The rest of the world does.
There's no excuse for hunger in China.
The ban on Australian food hurts Chinese peasants. Why is the CCP doing it?
To hurt Australia. They sacrifice their peasants to hurt others. Jerks.
Call that out. The world is awakening to the fact that the CCP are jerks and decoupling their economies
from China.
Investigative journalists busted American politicians for violating their own lockdown orders.
Let's see some videos of CCP members eating gluttonously.
This page shows how to win a trade war with China. https://www.jaymaron.com/america.html
We have the cards to win. No excuse for not winning.
jaymaron comments on Dec 26, 2020:
China doesn't have enough water to support its people agriculturally. The rest of the world does.
There's no excuse for hunger in China.
The ban on Australian food hurts Chinese peasants. Why is the CCP doing it?
To hurt Australia. They sacrifice their peasants to hurt others. Jerks.
Call that out. The world is awakening to the fact that the CCP are jerks and decoupling their economies
from China.
Investigative journalists busted American politicians for violating their own lockdown orders.
Let's see some videos of CCP members eating gluttonously.
This page shows how to win a trade war with China. https://www.jaymaron.com/america.html
We have the cards to win. No excuse for not winning.
Spectrum: Nuclear powered rockets get a second look for interplanetary travel.
jaymaron comments on Dec 25, 2020:
Fission thermal rockets are the way to go. Baffling that we don't already have them.
The higher the temperature of the reactor, the faster the exhaust speed, and the article
discusses the challenges of high-temperature engineering. High-temperature
engineering is important for many other applications, such as radioisotope thermoelectric
generators.
Hydrogen+Oxygen exhaust speed = 4.4 km/s
Fission thermal hydrogen exhaust speed = 13 km/s.
Fission thermal rockets have a larger exhaust speed than chemical rockets but a smaller power/mass, too low to harness the Oberth maneuver. The Oberth maneuver is important for moving between planets, and only chemical rockets can do it. We need both chemical and fission thermal rockets.
Fission thermal rockets: https://www.jaymaron.com/astronautics.html
jaymaron comments on Dec 25, 2020:
Fission thermal rockets are the way to go. Baffling that we don't already have them.
The higher the temperature of the reactor, the faster the exhaust speed, and the article
discusses the challenges of high-temperature engineering. High-temperature
engineering is important for many other applications, such as radioisotope thermoelectric
generators.
Hydrogen+Oxygen exhaust speed = 4.4 km/s
Fission thermal hydrogen exhaust speed = 13 km/s.
Fission thermal rockets have a larger exhaust speed than chemical rockets but a smaller power/mass, too low to harness the Oberth maneuver. The Oberth maneuver is important for moving between planets, and only chemical rockets can do it. We need both chemical and fission thermal rockets.
Fission thermal rockets: https://www.jaymaron.com/astronautics.html
With the new space age well underway, Russia tests anti satellite weaponry.
jaymaron comments on Dec 25, 2020:
Given that we can flood space with vast numbers of microsatellites, it's hard to see how
they can shoot them down fast enough.
Space Force: https://www.jaymaron.com/astronautics.html
jaymaron comments on Dec 25, 2020:
Given that we can flood space with vast numbers of microsatellites, it's hard to see how
they can shoot them down fast enough.
Space Force: https://www.jaymaron.com/astronautics.html
James Webb Telescope.
jaymaron comments on Dec 25, 2020:
We so need a bigger space telescope.
Additionally, the Webb is an infrared telescope, and we don't presently have an operating
infrared telescope. Infrared telescopes have to be cold and they inevitably run out of coolant.
I think our first move should be to establish a manned base station at L2 and assemble telescopes
on site. It's easy to align mirror segments in space and there's no limit to the size. Having humans on hand
to do the assembly eliminates the complexity.
Using lunar iron you can construct a colossal radio telescope.
To build a base at L2, use lunar ice, which can be rocket fuel, radiation shielding, and life support.
Bigelow space modules are huge and lightweight, much better than the space station.
Roadmap: https://www.jaymaron.com/astronautics.html#mission
Telescopes: https://www.jaymaron.com/telescopes.html
jaymaron comments on Dec 25, 2020:
We so need a bigger space telescope.
Additionally, the Webb is an infrared telescope, and we don't presently have an operating
infrared telescope. Infrared telescopes have to be cold and they inevitably run out of coolant.
I think our first move should be to establish a manned base station at L2 and assemble telescopes
on site. It's easy to align mirror segments in space and there's no limit to the size. Having humans on hand
to do the assembly eliminates the complexity.
Using lunar iron you can construct a colossal radio telescope.
To build a base at L2, use lunar ice, which can be rocket fuel, radiation shielding, and life support.
Bigelow space modules are huge and lightweight, much better than the space station.
Roadmap: https://www.jaymaron.com/astronautics.html#mission
Telescopes: https://www.jaymaron.com/telescopes.html
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jaymaron comments on Dec 24, 2020:
There is a college contest in applied mathematics called the "Mathematical
Contest in Modeling" (MCM). It's about how to use mathematics to solve
real-world problems. Every politician should have an applied mathematician on
staff. Shame anyone who doesn't.
Gingrich: American politicians tend to be lawyers or businessmen. Chinese
politicians tend to be scientists or engineers.
Scoooooooooooooooooop!
Over the last decade the MCM has been dominated by Chinese teams. Did anybody
know that? Clearly they understand the importance of applied
mathematics, and American politicians whiffed.
Look at the plot of mining dominance. China dominates the production of most elements, and this didn't happen by accident. They're up to something. By the way, they do it by stealing American technology and then
burning coal to smelt the metal. Jerks.
Article on mining dominance: https://www.jaymaron.com/mining.html
There are 2 good rare Earth element mines in the world: The Mountain Pass mine in California and the
Bayan Obo mine in China. Mountain Pass once dominated world production and now they are bankrupt, and
China dominates rare Earths. Why? Because there are no environmental constraints at the Bayan Obo mine.
If you care about the Earth, point the finger at the Bayan Obo mine.
China dominates the production of goose down. This is important because goose down far outperforms
synthetic fill. Turns out they do it by the inhumane practice of live plucking. Article: https://www.jaymaron.com/ecology.html#down
It's a certainty that every badass American university research group has a CCP spy embedded in it.
The story is personal to me. At U. Wisconsin I was on the MCM team and we
kicked ass. We achieved a rank of Meritorious.
Once upon a time I spent a year feeding ducks and geese at the pond in Central Park.
https://www.jaymaron.com/duckgoose.html
I am angry over Chinese live plucking.
jaymaron comments on Dec 24, 2020:
There is a college contest in applied mathematics called the "Mathematical
Contest in Modeling" (MCM). It's about how to use mathematics to solve
real-world problems. Every politician should have an applied mathematician on
staff. Shame anyone who doesn't.
Gingrich: American politicians tend to be lawyers or businessmen. Chinese
politicians tend to be scientists or engineers.
Scoooooooooooooooooop!
Over the last decade the MCM has been dominated by Chinese teams. Did anybody
know that? Clearly they understand the importance of applied
mathematics, and American politicians whiffed.
Look at the plot of mining dominance. China dominates the production of most elements, and this didn't happen by accident. They're up to something. By the way, they do it by stealing American technology and then
burning coal to smelt the metal. Jerks.
Article on mining dominance: https://www.jaymaron.com/mining.html
There are 2 good rare Earth element mines in the world: The Mountain Pass mine in California and the
Bayan Obo mine in China. Mountain Pass once dominated world production and now they are bankrupt, and
China dominates rare Earths. Why? Because there are no environmental constraints at the Bayan Obo mine.
If you care about the Earth, point the finger at the Bayan Obo mine.
China dominates the production of goose down. This is important because goose down far outperforms
synthetic fill. Turns out they do it by the inhumane practice of live plucking. Article: https://www.jaymaron.com/ecology.html#down
It's a certainty that every badass American university research group has a CCP spy embedded in it.
The story is personal to me. At U. Wisconsin I was on the MCM team and we
kicked ass. We achieved a rank of Meritorious.
Once upon a time I spent a year feeding ducks and geese at the pond in Central Park.
https://www.jaymaron.com/duckgoose.html
I am angry over Chinese live plucking.
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jaymaron comments on Dec 24, 2020:
Paraphrasing the Great Wizard Gingrich:
To battle the Chinese you need to understand the game of Go. Go is about patience and territory.
For example, for every island the Chinese create in the South Pacific Sea, create 5 of your own islands closer
to China than that island.
The Chinese Communist Party forbids foreign ownership of any Chinese corporation, or of Chinese land. Chinese are forbidden from investing in foreign stocks. They are required to invest in the Chinese Stock Market. If I were president I would
confiscate every Chinese corporation in the U.S., and I would confiscate every piece of land in America owned by any entity connected to the Chinese Communist Party.
We just learned that the CCP has spies emBedded with most democrat politicians, such as Agent Bang Bang with Congressman Swallwell, and the Chinese spy that was Senator Feinstein's driver for 20 years. Gingrich gave an anecdote describing how the ballboy for the Minnesota Gophers football team proved to be a Chinese spy. Faked poor English. In fact spoke perfect English and understood everything everyone was saying.
If you analyze the source of ownership of American land you will find that lots of it traces back to the CCP.
They've been planning this for decades.
The CCP has been planning mining dominance for decades, and you will find that much of the American land owned by the CCP has rich ore. Article: https://www.jaymaron.com/mining.html
jaymaron comments on Dec 24, 2020:
Paraphrasing the Great Wizard Gingrich:
To battle the Chinese you need to understand the game of Go. Go is about patience and territory.
For example, for every island the Chinese create in the South Pacific Sea, create 5 of your own islands closer
to China than that island.
The Chinese Communist Party forbids foreign ownership of any Chinese corporation, or of Chinese land. Chinese are forbidden from investing in foreign stocks. They are required to invest in the Chinese Stock Market. If I were president I would
confiscate every Chinese corporation in the U.S., and I would confiscate every piece of land in America owned by any entity connected to the Chinese Communist Party.
We just learned that the CCP has spies emBedded with most democrat politicians, such as Agent Bang Bang with Congressman Swallwell, and the Chinese spy that was Senator Feinstein's driver for 20 years. Gingrich gave an anecdote describing how the ballboy for the Minnesota Gophers football team proved to be a Chinese spy. Faked poor English. In fact spoke perfect English and understood everything everyone was saying.
If you analyze the source of ownership of American land you will find that lots of it traces back to the CCP.
They've been planning this for decades.
The CCP has been planning mining dominance for decades, and you will find that much of the American land owned by the CCP has rich ore. Article: https://www.jaymaron.com/mining.html
Mosquitoes – The Deadliest Creature on Earth, or A New Eugenic Tool?
jaymaron comments on Dec 24, 2020:
We have a device that can recognize mosquitoes and zap them with a laser.
Vaporizes the wings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKm8FolQ7jw
Plant plants that yield nuts instead of berries, because birds can get the nuts and insects can't.
Nut trees: https://www.jaymaron.com/ecology.html#nuttree
jaymaron comments on Dec 24, 2020:
We have a device that can recognize mosquitoes and zap them with a laser.
Vaporizes the wings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKm8FolQ7jw
Plant plants that yield nuts instead of berries, because birds can get the nuts and insects can't.
Nut trees: https://www.jaymaron.com/ecology.html#nuttree
Rand Paul Releases ‘Festivus’ List of Grievances Detailing $54B in Government Waste
Sen.
jaymaron comments on Dec 24, 2020:
Tucker Carlson pointed out a scandal where New York state lawmakers were busted for using New York's
plague relief money for pork. Actual pork, as in food. They held a pork roast feast.
The salaries of New York state government officials increased.
jaymaron comments on Dec 24, 2020:
Tucker Carlson pointed out a scandal where New York state lawmakers were busted for using New York's
plague relief money for pork. Actual pork, as in food. They held a pork roast feast.
The salaries of New York state government officials increased.
Tucker: The left wants a whole new dictionary
[youtu.be]
jaymaron comments on Dec 24, 2020:
In general, society will schism. Most leftists don't like to socialize with conservatives and so society will
schism socially. The Carlson segment suggests that language will schism.
A boycott war will cause economic schism.
Bankruptcies of democrat cities and states will force political schism and secession.
Half of America will go forward believing that democrats stole the 2020 election, and
the other half feels that the election was fair. That rift will never go away. It will become like
a religious schism, with each side believing in their history.
"Low man on the totem pole" is banned. I like that phrase. Not giving it up.
In Asimov's "Foundation", the Foundation gave up on the galactic empire and let it collapse and worked
toward building a better empire.
Back in the day, if you were obsessed with regional identity you were called "provincial". Fine word to
bring back.
Also on last night's show, Carlson said: (paraphrasing): California used to export
technological products. Now it exports businesses.
jaymaron comments on Dec 24, 2020:
In general, society will schism. Most leftists don't like to socialize with conservatives and so society will
schism socially. The Carlson segment suggests that language will schism.
A boycott war will cause economic schism.
Bankruptcies of democrat cities and states will force political schism and secession.
Half of America will go forward believing that democrats stole the 2020 election, and
the other half feels that the election was fair. That rift will never go away. It will become like
a religious schism, with each side believing in their history.
"Low man on the totem pole" is banned. I like that phrase. Not giving it up.
In Asimov's "Foundation", the Foundation gave up on the galactic empire and let it collapse and worked
toward building a better empire.
Back in the day, if you were obsessed with regional identity you were called "provincial". Fine word to
bring back.
Also on last night's show, Carlson said: (paraphrasing): California used to export
technological products. Now it exports businesses.
Rand Paul Releases ‘Festivus’ List of Grievances Detailing $54B in Government Waste
Sen.
jaymaron comments on Dec 24, 2020:
Once upon a time, Senator Proxmire was handing out "Golden Fleece" awards to shame
the biggest government boondoggles. Good to see that Senator Paul is calling out boondoggles.
jaymaron comments on Dec 24, 2020:
Once upon a time, Senator Proxmire was handing out "Golden Fleece" awards to shame
the biggest government boondoggles. Good to see that Senator Paul is calling out boondoggles.
[notrickszone.
jaymaron comments on Dec 24, 2020:
No pity. We can easily create new land faster than we lose it, and the new land is high-value
beachfront property. Even if the sea level weren't rising, everyone should be fortifying their beaches
with dredgers.
The world has created 25000 km^2 of land and lost 53000 km^2 to sea level rise.
Let's catch up!
Land creation: https://www.jaymaron.com/earth.html#dredge
jaymaron comments on Dec 24, 2020:
No pity. We can easily create new land faster than we lose it, and the new land is high-value
beachfront property. Even if the sea level weren't rising, everyone should be fortifying their beaches
with dredgers.
The world has created 25000 km^2 of land and lost 53000 km^2 to sea level rise.
Let's catch up!
Land creation: https://www.jaymaron.com/earth.html#dredge
The Great Awakening TV: NURSE THROWN OUT OF CITY COUNCIL MEETING FOR TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT ...
jaymaron comments on Dec 23, 2020:
What an opportunity!
For the next town hall meeting, send 100 nurses. Let some of them be secretly MMA badasses and
have them defend to the max, to force security to use egregious force, and then take offense
at the egregious force. That's the tactic that leftist protesters use.
This is a theme in California. Some conservative reporters attempted to attend a San Francisco
public city council meeting and were thrown out. They described the proceedings as like
a bunch of brat kids from Lord of the Flies. Let's expose the childishness of Democrat city council meetings.
Democrats are "outrage apartheidists". To a democrat, only democrat outrage matters.
Use the dark side of the force. Conservatives should use outrage.
jaymaron comments on Dec 23, 2020:
What an opportunity!
For the next town hall meeting, send 100 nurses. Let some of them be secretly MMA badasses and
have them defend to the max, to force security to use egregious force, and then take offense
at the egregious force. That's the tactic that leftist protesters use.
This is a theme in California. Some conservative reporters attempted to attend a San Francisco
public city council meeting and were thrown out. They described the proceedings as like
a bunch of brat kids from Lord of the Flies. Let's expose the childishness of Democrat city council meetings.
Democrats are "outrage apartheidists". To a democrat, only democrat outrage matters.
Use the dark side of the force. Conservatives should use outrage.
WATCH: 2 Year Old Child KICKED off Airline For Not Wearing a MASK.
[youtube.com]
jaymaron comments on Dec 23, 2020:
The most worrying thing is that the video was censored.
This means that big tech can censor anything. There is no limit.
They will censor even petty stuff like this.
The censorship was covered on Tucker Carlson.
jaymaron comments on Dec 23, 2020:
The most worrying thing is that the video was censored.
This means that big tech can censor anything. There is no limit.
They will censor even petty stuff like this.
The censorship was covered on Tucker Carlson.
Remember this; inflation is taxation without legislation.
jaymaron comments on Dec 22, 2020:
Using a disaster to impose partisanship is political looting. Call them out on it.
And if you can't stop it, you might as well loot as much for your own party as you can.
The only way to stop Democrat pork is deterrent. Push for maximal Republican pork until they
cave.
There is a shameful lack of creativity among politicians.
Not only should they be helping Americans, they should be creative.
Money gifts beget inflation. Uncreative. Find ways other than money.
America has abundant natural resources. Open them up to Americans.
Once upon a time we had land rushes. We had land and we gave it to Americans in a
way that promoted a middle class. Land is a fine way to build a middle class.
There is abundant federal and state land.
Energy is wealth. There is a tight correlation between a nation's power production and its
GDP. See the plot. https://www.jaymaron.com/earth.html
America has abundant energy reserves. Open them up. Let it rip. Drill baby
drill! The goal of a politician is to create jobs, and energy creates jobs.
Specifically, energy begets raw materials, which beget manufactured goods, which beget
exports, which beget wealth. Baffling that Democrats hate energy.
Not only do you want to maximize energy, you also want to minimize the price of energy.
The way to do this is to maximize energy, from all sources.
Nuclear reactors are cheap. It's a mature technology.
At present they're artificially expensive because of senseless regulations.
If the regulations were reformed, nuclear reactors would be cheap. And safe.
Nuclear engineers have made big gains in safety technology that they haven't been able
to implement because it's impossible to get a license to build a nuclear reactor.
This is my turf. I'm a nuclear physicist. In college I received a scholarship from the
Institute of Nuclear Power Organizations. Textbook on nuclear engineering:
https://www.jaymaron.com/nuclear.html
A nuclear reactor can do many cool things, most of which are not presently harnessed.
For example they can:
Produce electricity.
Produce heat for the chemical industry.
Heat buildings and rugby fields with discard heat.
Create valuable elements and isotopes by transmutation.
Extract valuable elements from spent fuel, such as rhodium and palladium.
Extract radioisotopes from spent fuel, which can be made into nuclear batteries.
These include strontium-90 and caesium-137.
Serve as a neutron source for scientific research.
Neutralize radioactive waste with discard neutrons.
America and Canada have vast land that is cold. A nuclear reactor can turn tundra into
rainforest. It can carve out a piece of tropical climate in North Canada.
Build a reactor and you can shovel in cheap uranium fuel and extract bigly
power, for ...
jaymaron comments on Dec 22, 2020:
Using a disaster to impose partisanship is political looting. Call them out on it.
And if you can't stop it, you might as well loot as much for your own party as you can.
The only way to stop Democrat pork is deterrent. Push for maximal Republican pork until they
cave.
There is a shameful lack of creativity among politicians.
Not only should they be helping Americans, they should be creative.
Money gifts beget inflation. Uncreative. Find ways other than money.
America has abundant natural resources. Open them up to Americans.
Once upon a time we had land rushes. We had land and we gave it to Americans in a
way that promoted a middle class. Land is a fine way to build a middle class.
There is abundant federal and state land.
Energy is wealth. There is a tight correlation between a nation's power production and its
GDP. See the plot. https://www.jaymaron.com/earth.html
America has abundant energy reserves. Open them up. Let it rip. Drill baby
drill! The goal of a politician is to create jobs, and energy creates jobs.
Specifically, energy begets raw materials, which beget manufactured goods, which beget
exports, which beget wealth. Baffling that Democrats hate energy.
Not only do you want to maximize energy, you also want to minimize the price of energy.
The way to do this is to maximize energy, from all sources.
Nuclear reactors are cheap. It's a mature technology.
At present they're artificially expensive because of senseless regulations.
If the regulations were reformed, nuclear reactors would be cheap. And safe.
Nuclear engineers have made big gains in safety technology that they haven't been able
to implement because it's impossible to get a license to build a nuclear reactor.
This is my turf. I'm a nuclear physicist. In college I received a scholarship from the
Institute of Nuclear Power Organizations. Textbook on nuclear engineering:
https://www.jaymaron.com/nuclear.html
A nuclear reactor can do many cool things, most of which are not presently harnessed.
For example they can:
Produce electricity.
Produce heat for the chemical industry.
Heat buildings and rugby fields with discard heat.
Create valuable elements and isotopes by transmutation.
Extract valuable elements from spent fuel, such as rhodium and palladium.
Extract radioisotopes from spent fuel, which can be made into nuclear batteries.
These include strontium-90 and caesium-137.
Serve as a neutron source for scientific research.
Neutralize radioactive waste with discard neutrons.
America and Canada have vast land that is cold. A nuclear reactor can turn tundra into
rainforest. It can carve out a piece of tropical climate in North Canada.
Build a reactor and you can shovel in cheap uranium fuel and extract bigly
power, for ...
Are we witnessing the beginning of the end for FOX News?
[redstate.com]
jaymaron comments on Dec 22, 2020:
Not worried about Fox. Carlson and Hannity are speaking their minds, hence they must have Fox's support.
In a recent speech Trump praised Newsmax, OANN, Carlson, Hannity, Ingraham, Gutfeld, and Watters.
Even if Fox falls, new networks will emerge. Trump created a hungry MAGA audience.
Last Saturday's Gutfeld show had a discussion of the possibility of Trump creating a TV show.
Perhaps he'll make a show called "The Candidate".
You need both fact shows and analysis shows. Carlson and Hannity are analysts. But they say so.
They disparage people who claim to be factual but are actually commentators. They disparage people who
claim to be neutral but are not. Carlson and Hannity declare themselves to be conservative.
List of conservative news sites and personalities: https://www.jaymaron.com/anchor.html
Carlson is the ratings king, and Fox far outweighs MSNBC and CNN.
jaymaron comments on Dec 22, 2020:
Not worried about Fox. Carlson and Hannity are speaking their minds, hence they must have Fox's support.
In a recent speech Trump praised Newsmax, OANN, Carlson, Hannity, Ingraham, Gutfeld, and Watters.
Even if Fox falls, new networks will emerge. Trump created a hungry MAGA audience.
Last Saturday's Gutfeld show had a discussion of the possibility of Trump creating a TV show.
Perhaps he'll make a show called "The Candidate".
You need both fact shows and analysis shows. Carlson and Hannity are analysts. But they say so.
They disparage people who claim to be factual but are actually commentators. They disparage people who
claim to be neutral but are not. Carlson and Hannity declare themselves to be conservative.
List of conservative news sites and personalities: https://www.jaymaron.com/anchor.html
Carlson is the ratings king, and Fox far outweighs MSNBC and CNN.
New heights in absurdity for 2020:
Members of the US Space Force will now be called ...
jaymaron comments on Dec 22, 2020:
The NASA person who is in charge of defending the Earth from things like alien microbes is called the
Planetary Protection Officer.
Love the Star Trek style logo.
Instead of the G20, which contains some jerks, why not create a group of
synergistic nations and call it the United Federation of Nations. Make it cool so that everyone will want
to join.
I see people hating the Space Force because Trump created it. They're saying it's a boondoggle.
Wars are won by physicists. To say that we don't need a space force is like saying in 1939 that we don't
need aircraft and aircraft carriers.
Textbook on astronautics. https://www.jaymaron.com/astronautics.html
jaymaron comments on Dec 22, 2020:
The NASA person who is in charge of defending the Earth from things like alien microbes is called the
Planetary Protection Officer.
Love the Star Trek style logo.
Instead of the G20, which contains some jerks, why not create a group of
synergistic nations and call it the United Federation of Nations. Make it cool so that everyone will want
to join.
I see people hating the Space Force because Trump created it. They're saying it's a boondoggle.
Wars are won by physicists. To say that we don't need a space force is like saying in 1939 that we don't
need aircraft and aircraft carriers.
Textbook on astronautics. https://www.jaymaron.com/astronautics.html
Perfect Timing | WuFlu Mutates & Becomes "70% More Contagious".
[youtube.com]
jaymaron comments on Dec 21, 2020:
China could genetically engineer a mutated wuflu and release it, and claim that the mutation was natural.
They COULD do this.
It has been proven that that they are malicious.
There for they DID do this.
It's not a mutation. It's a piece of genetic engineering by the CCP.
They had this planned all along. First release a virus that's maximally contagious, to cripple
the world's economy, and then release genetically-engineered mutations.
jaymaron comments on Dec 21, 2020:
China could genetically engineer a mutated wuflu and release it, and claim that the mutation was natural.
They COULD do this.
It has been proven that that they are malicious.
There for they DID do this.
It's not a mutation. It's a piece of genetic engineering by the CCP.
They had this planned all along. First release a virus that's maximally contagious, to cripple
the world's economy, and then release genetically-engineered mutations.
Parts of China reportedly experiencing worsening electricity shortages amid coal ban
A bitter CCP...
jaymaron comments on Dec 21, 2020:
China burns half the world's coal.
China coal production = 3523 Bkg/year
India coal production = 716 Bkg/year (2nd place)
World coal production = 7727 Bkg/year
Even though China far leads world coal production, they are the 3rd largest importer of coal.
China dominates world metal production and they do it with coal. Jerks. They steal steelmaking technology
and then they flagrantly burn coal to produce steel. This is "conflict steel".
China dominates world element production not just by mass but also by comprehensiveness.
They dominate production of MOST elements. See the plot. That doesn't happen by accident.
Clearly they're up to something.
China leads CO2 production and they have a horrible value for energy/carbon, and the reason for the horrible value is coal. Coal has the worst possible energy/carbon, half that of natural gas.
China is overwhelmed with smog. Their economy is founded on coal and burning more coal costs them smog.
They tied themselves into a knot.
The terms of the Paris Accord is that developed nations have to reduce carbon and developing nations get
to splurge on carbon. The Paris Accord should be called the Beijing Accord.
In fact, America has a great value for energy/carbon. See the plot. We should virtue signal. We did our part.
Rest of world? Ball in your court, not ours.
Once upon a time, rare Earth elements were dominated by America, by the Mountain Pass mine
in California. Then the Chinese Bayan Obo mine was discovered and China took over the world
rare Earth market. How? Both mines have great ore. The Californian mine is hindered by regulations and the Bayan Obo mine isn't.
If I were president I would issue an executive order. The Mountain Pass mine will be
operated at maximum capacity, because WW3 hinges on it.
An unreported story is the degree of pollution occurring at the Bayan Obo mine. Unleash the investigative journalists! This is the scoop! Shame on journalists that whiffed on this.
Speaking of jerks, China leads the world in the production of goose down. Turns out the
down was painfully plucked from live geese. This is "conflict down".
Ikea heroically did an investigation and revealed the live-plucking at Chinese goose
farms, and courageously canceled their contracts with Chinese goose down producers.
Article on goose down: https://www.jaymaron.com/ecology.html#down
Textbook on world coal mining and metal production: https://www.jaymaron.com/mining.html
Textbook on world energy: https://www.jaymaron.com/energy.html
jaymaron comments on Dec 21, 2020:
China burns half the world's coal.
China coal production = 3523 Bkg/year
India coal production = 716 Bkg/year (2nd place)
World coal production = 7727 Bkg/year
Even though China far leads world coal production, they are the 3rd largest importer of coal.
China dominates world metal production and they do it with coal. Jerks. They steal steelmaking technology
and then they flagrantly burn coal to produce steel. This is "conflict steel".
China dominates world element production not just by mass but also by comprehensiveness.
They dominate production of MOST elements. See the plot. That doesn't happen by accident.
Clearly they're up to something.
China leads CO2 production and they have a horrible value for energy/carbon, and the reason for the horrible value is coal. Coal has the worst possible energy/carbon, half that of natural gas.
China is overwhelmed with smog. Their economy is founded on coal and burning more coal costs them smog.
They tied themselves into a knot.
The terms of the Paris Accord is that developed nations have to reduce carbon and developing nations get
to splurge on carbon. The Paris Accord should be called the Beijing Accord.
In fact, America has a great value for energy/carbon. See the plot. We should virtue signal. We did our part.
Rest of world? Ball in your court, not ours.
Once upon a time, rare Earth elements were dominated by America, by the Mountain Pass mine
in California. Then the Chinese Bayan Obo mine was discovered and China took over the world
rare Earth market. How? Both mines have great ore. The Californian mine is hindered by regulations and the Bayan Obo mine isn't.
If I were president I would issue an executive order. The Mountain Pass mine will be
operated at maximum capacity, because WW3 hinges on it.
An unreported story is the degree of pollution occurring at the Bayan Obo mine. Unleash the investigative journalists! This is the scoop! Shame on journalists that whiffed on this.
Speaking of jerks, China leads the world in the production of goose down. Turns out the
down was painfully plucked from live geese. This is "conflict down".
Ikea heroically did an investigation and revealed the live-plucking at Chinese goose
farms, and courageously canceled their contracts with Chinese goose down producers.
Article on goose down: https://www.jaymaron.com/ecology.html#down
Textbook on world coal mining and metal production: https://www.jaymaron.com/mining.html
Textbook on world energy: https://www.jaymaron.com/energy.html
It’s time to move to Brazil
[twitter.com]
jaymaron comments on Dec 21, 2020:
I am a culture snob. Quality of culture matters.
Japan produces awesome film and TV. I like it better than Hollywood.
Japan also has deep sports culture, especially MMA, sumo, and rugby.
Two epic fights of MMA history were Japan vs. Brazil.
Masahiko Kimura vs. Helio Gracie, year 1951.
Kazushi Sakuraba v Royce Gracie, year 2000.
Japan is polite and values social charm. Japan also has great food.
In 1905, Japan defeated the Russian Navy, and they've proven themselves badass innovators in
technology ever since.
Japan invented judo and ground fighting and taught it to Brazil, and then together
they brought it to the world. Timeline of kung fu: https://www.jaymaron.com/shaolin.html#kungfu
India has great music, food, and film, and they have 23 Institutes of Technology.
Scotland and Ireland have fine whiskey and fine drinking companions.
Australia has vast rural land.
Maori warriors are renowned for politeness. In the Avengers, the character Korg is modeled
after the Maori.
In America, the superpowers of wrestling are Iowa and Oklahoma. Wrestling is a Midwest thing.
jaymaron comments on Dec 21, 2020:
I am a culture snob. Quality of culture matters.
Japan produces awesome film and TV. I like it better than Hollywood.
Japan also has deep sports culture, especially MMA, sumo, and rugby.
Two epic fights of MMA history were Japan vs. Brazil.
Masahiko Kimura vs. Helio Gracie, year 1951.
Kazushi Sakuraba v Royce Gracie, year 2000.
Japan is polite and values social charm. Japan also has great food.
In 1905, Japan defeated the Russian Navy, and they've proven themselves badass innovators in
technology ever since.
Japan invented judo and ground fighting and taught it to Brazil, and then together
they brought it to the world. Timeline of kung fu: https://www.jaymaron.com/shaolin.html#kungfu
India has great music, food, and film, and they have 23 Institutes of Technology.
Scotland and Ireland have fine whiskey and fine drinking companions.
Australia has vast rural land.
Maori warriors are renowned for politeness. In the Avengers, the character Korg is modeled
after the Maori.
In America, the superpowers of wrestling are Iowa and Oklahoma. Wrestling is a Midwest thing.
A little excessive (See photo) my girls were raised a slight bit harder, sure tea parties with tiny ...
jaymaron comments on Dec 21, 2020:
Before long there will be autonomous baby carriages that follow you around without you have to push them.
Now that everyone's seen baby Yoda's carriage, they're going to happen in real life.
There is a Terry Pratchet novel featuring a piece of sentient luggage that follows
its owner around. Even defends itself.
Give the baby a smooth ride. Use big wheels with air cushioning, and have a suspension
system.
Most strollers have small hard wheels.
jaymaron comments on Dec 21, 2020:
Before long there will be autonomous baby carriages that follow you around without you have to push them.
Now that everyone's seen baby Yoda's carriage, they're going to happen in real life.
There is a Terry Pratchet novel featuring a piece of sentient luggage that follows
its owner around. Even defends itself.
Give the baby a smooth ride. Use big wheels with air cushioning, and have a suspension
system.
Most strollers have small hard wheels.
Blue Origin Wins NASA Contract for Future Space Missions [interestingengineering.com]
jaymaron comments on Dec 21, 2020:
SpaceX pioneered the methane engine, which gives a better exhaust speed than kerosene.
Blue Origin now has a methane engine.
Quite a few science fiction novels involve space wars between billionaires.
Baffled that the billionaires haven't realized that there's trillions in platinum group metals in metal
asteroids.
Asteroid mining: https://www.jaymaron.com/asteroidmining.html
jaymaron comments on Dec 21, 2020:
SpaceX pioneered the methane engine, which gives a better exhaust speed than kerosene.
Blue Origin now has a methane engine.
Quite a few science fiction novels involve space wars between billionaires.
Baffled that the billionaires haven't realized that there's trillions in platinum group metals in metal
asteroids.
Asteroid mining: https://www.jaymaron.com/asteroidmining.html
Doing a Google search "intellectual dark web" no longer returns this sight [slug.
jaymaron comments on Dec 21, 2020:
Fine topic, neutral search engines. Suggestions? You also don't want the engine to log your data. I'm using duckduckgo.
Google censored Breitbart completely. Even a search with the exact title of a Breitbart article yields no results. Then the censored articles pointing this out.
If you search for "George Washington" the item at the top of the list is someone different from the 1st president of the United States. There is no logical reason for that.
I like the fact that idw.community is heavily moderated. You need quality control and
spam defense.
There's something to be said for making the Intellectual Dark Web hard to find.
Makes it cooler. Who is John Galt?
jaymaron comments on Dec 21, 2020:
Fine topic, neutral search engines. Suggestions? You also don't want the engine to log your data. I'm using duckduckgo.
Google censored Breitbart completely. Even a search with the exact title of a Breitbart article yields no results. Then the censored articles pointing this out.
If you search for "George Washington" the item at the top of the list is someone different from the 1st president of the United States. There is no logical reason for that.
I like the fact that idw.community is heavily moderated. You need quality control and
spam defense.
There's something to be said for making the Intellectual Dark Web hard to find.
Makes it cooler. Who is John Galt?
For any of those familiar with the classic PC game Deus Ex, this is similar to the Thermoptic Camo ...
jaymaron comments on Dec 21, 2020:
Vanta black is a black material that holds the record for smallest reflectivity.
It's built from carbon nanotubes.
jaymaron comments on Dec 21, 2020:
Vanta black is a black material that holds the record for smallest reflectivity.
It's built from carbon nanotubes.
It’s time to move to Brazil
[twitter.com]
jaymaron comments on Dec 21, 2020:
Fine question, what country to move to?
Or within America, where to move?
Brazil has infinite sun, water, and hydrocarbons.
They will be the next superpower.
They are superpowers of biofuel and soy.
Venezuela also has these advantages and is not a superpower. Venezuela produces no oil
and they are starving.
I'm considering Japan, India, Fiji, and Australia. Australia went conservative.
Japan has a conservative supermajority. India is well aware of the danger of China and they
are dis-entangling their economy from China. Fiji has rugby and it has the best universities
among the Pacific islands. New Zealand, alas, is ranked the most liberal nation in the world.
Hungary is stoutly
Montana is unique in that it is stoutly red and also surrounded by stoutly red states.
Moving van data:
jaymaron comments on Dec 21, 2020:
Fine question, what country to move to?
Or within America, where to move?
Brazil has infinite sun, water, and hydrocarbons.
They will be the next superpower.
They are superpowers of biofuel and soy.
Venezuela also has these advantages and is not a superpower. Venezuela produces no oil
and they are starving.
I'm considering Japan, India, Fiji, and Australia. Australia went conservative.
Japan has a conservative supermajority. India is well aware of the danger of China and they
are dis-entangling their economy from China. Fiji has rugby and it has the best universities
among the Pacific islands. New Zealand, alas, is ranked the most liberal nation in the world.
Hungary is stoutly
Montana is unique in that it is stoutly red and also surrounded by stoutly red states.
Moving van data:
Breitbart: Director of "Guardians of the Galaxy" throws a temper tantrum when VP Pence announces ...
jaymaron comments on Dec 20, 2020:
Love the Star Trek style logo.
I see lots of democrats saying that the Space Force is a boondoggle, jealous that Trump created it.
To say that we don't need a Space Force is like saying in 1941 that we don't need aircraft and aircraft
carriers.
jaymaron comments on Dec 20, 2020:
Love the Star Trek style logo.
I see lots of democrats saying that the Space Force is a boondoggle, jealous that Trump created it.
To say that we don't need a Space Force is like saying in 1941 that we don't need aircraft and aircraft
carriers.
I have a classification system for disasters and preparedness.
jaymaron comments on Dec 20, 2020:
I love Tracycoyle's disaster scale. It takes into account damage magnitude.
Among the things democrats want to spend money on, how many are
natural disaster defenses? Ever hear a politician talk about natural disaster
defense?
I teach physics classes and a question I put on the final is:
Suppose you're a candidate for president and you have to give a speech on
your plan for natural disaster defense. What is your speech? Include as much
physics content as you can.
A question we could debate is: How would you rank the possible natural disasters
in terms of worry factor? My nominations for the top tier are:
Tsunamis. They only happen the Pacific because they're generated by
megathrust earthquakes, earthquakes arising from plate overlaps.
Megathrust earthquakes don't happen in the Atlantic because the Atlantic is expanding.
A megathrust earthquake tsunami is capable of destroying every city on the
Pacific coast.
An asteroid hitting an ocean generates a tsumani far larger than a megathrust tsunami.
Whatever ocean it hits, every city on the coast of every ocean gets destroyed.
This is the scenario in the Niven+Pournelle novel "Lucifer's Hammer". Amusingly, physicists
emerge as supreme.
Plate overlaps produce volcano chains, such as the Cascade mountains in Washington
and the islands of Japan. The Cascades produce frequent volcanoes, such as Mount Saint
Helens.
The San Andreas fault is waaaaaaay overdue for an quake. I can't believe San
Francisco is still above sea level. That quake *will* happen, and San Francisco
has no plan. They can't even stop forest fires.
Forest fires are always happening, and the states getting their butts kicked by
fires are California, Oregon, and Washington.
A loss of power is a disaster. California has blackouts because it doesn't have enough
power. It can't turn on the power because the power lines cause forest fires.
It can't bury the power lines because the utilities are billions in debt.
They eschewed nuclear power in favor of solar, which failed to come to fruition.
What is the root cause of this disaster? Leftism.
If you're on the Atlantic coast you are guaranteed hits from hurricanes. There is
no excuse for not withstanding an hurricane.
You have to know what disasters to ignore, so you can focus on the important
ones. A tornado wind is twice the speed of a hurricane wind and 4 times the
wind pressure. You can design buildings to withstand hurricanes but not
tornadoes. Hurricanes are large and frequent and so buildings better be able
to handle a maximal hurricane. But you needn't try to defend against a tornado
because they're small. Take the hit and rebuild. Have a collective tornado
defense society to help anyone that gets hit.
Plagues have destroyed ...
jaymaron comments on Dec 20, 2020:
I love Tracycoyle's disaster scale. It takes into account damage magnitude.
Among the things democrats want to spend money on, how many are
natural disaster defenses? Ever hear a politician talk about natural disaster
defense?
I teach physics classes and a question I put on the final is:
Suppose you're a candidate for president and you have to give a speech on
your plan for natural disaster defense. What is your speech? Include as much
physics content as you can.
A question we could debate is: How would you rank the possible natural disasters
in terms of worry factor? My nominations for the top tier are:
Tsunamis. They only happen the Pacific because they're generated by
megathrust earthquakes, earthquakes arising from plate overlaps.
Megathrust earthquakes don't happen in the Atlantic because the Atlantic is expanding.
A megathrust earthquake tsunami is capable of destroying every city on the
Pacific coast.
An asteroid hitting an ocean generates a tsumani far larger than a megathrust tsunami.
Whatever ocean it hits, every city on the coast of every ocean gets destroyed.
This is the scenario in the Niven+Pournelle novel "Lucifer's Hammer". Amusingly, physicists
emerge as supreme.
Plate overlaps produce volcano chains, such as the Cascade mountains in Washington
and the islands of Japan. The Cascades produce frequent volcanoes, such as Mount Saint
Helens.
The San Andreas fault is waaaaaaay overdue for an quake. I can't believe San
Francisco is still above sea level. That quake *will* happen, and San Francisco
has no plan. They can't even stop forest fires.
Forest fires are always happening, and the states getting their butts kicked by
fires are California, Oregon, and Washington.
A loss of power is a disaster. California has blackouts because it doesn't have enough
power. It can't turn on the power because the power lines cause forest fires.
It can't bury the power lines because the utilities are billions in debt.
They eschewed nuclear power in favor of solar, which failed to come to fruition.
What is the root cause of this disaster? Leftism.
If you're on the Atlantic coast you are guaranteed hits from hurricanes. There is
no excuse for not withstanding an hurricane.
You have to know what disasters to ignore, so you can focus on the important
ones. A tornado wind is twice the speed of a hurricane wind and 4 times the
wind pressure. You can design buildings to withstand hurricanes but not
tornadoes. Hurricanes are large and frequent and so buildings better be able
to handle a maximal hurricane. But you needn't try to defend against a tornado
because they're small. Take the hit and rebuild. Have a collective tornado
defense society to help anyone that gets hit.
Plagues have destroyed ...
Canada plans to pressure Biden to join a push banning all new gasoline powered cars within 20 years.
jaymaron comments on Dec 20, 2020:
Electric vehicles are for cities and gasoline vehicles are for freeways. Range
decreases with speed squared (law of air drag). Battery vehicles have poor range at freeway speed.
A mid-sized car at 75 MPH (35 m/s) consumes 50 kWatts.
An expensive battery has an energy of 200 MJoules, which means a driving time of
67 minutes and a range of 140 km. Lame.
When you see ranges quoted for EVs, they are not for freeway speed.
If you drive on the freeway you are taxing the battery by demanding high power, and by
frequent recharges. A battery can be recharged at most 1000 times.
If you have to recharge every hour and drive 8 hours a day, the battery lasts 125 days.
Remember that the battery is half the cost of an EV.
Think of the environmental impact of all those batteries. All that cobalt mining.
EVs are for cities.
Electric vehicles comprehensively outperform gasoline vehicles. They're more
powerful, cheaper, simpler, quieter, and flexible. Gasoline vehicles come
with baggage like gears, powertrains, combustion, flywheels, mufflers, etc.
none of which are present in electric vehicles.
Electric cars can have an independent motor on each wheel (individual wheel drive)
and computer-controlled suspension, opening new avenues of performance.
High-performance manufacturers such as Porsche are embracing electric vehicles. The next
generation of supercars will be electric.
A critical feature of electric motors is quietness, which is especially important for
light electric vehicles. Light gasoline-powered vehicles are loud and there's no way to make them
quiet. This is important for the health of cities.
There is a myth that public transportation is better than private transportation.
Bull. Its better if everyone has a compact EV than to have public transportation. Calculations in the
textbook.
Cities are poorly planned. Travel time could be reduced by designing new cities from scratch.
Textbook on electric vehicles and supercars: https://www.jaymaron.com/vehicle.html
This is a physics matter. Politicians should have a physicist on staff.
jaymaron comments on Dec 20, 2020:
Electric vehicles are for cities and gasoline vehicles are for freeways. Range
decreases with speed squared (law of air drag). Battery vehicles have poor range at freeway speed.
A mid-sized car at 75 MPH (35 m/s) consumes 50 kWatts.
An expensive battery has an energy of 200 MJoules, which means a driving time of
67 minutes and a range of 140 km. Lame.
When you see ranges quoted for EVs, they are not for freeway speed.
If you drive on the freeway you are taxing the battery by demanding high power, and by
frequent recharges. A battery can be recharged at most 1000 times.
If you have to recharge every hour and drive 8 hours a day, the battery lasts 125 days.
Remember that the battery is half the cost of an EV.
Think of the environmental impact of all those batteries. All that cobalt mining.
EVs are for cities.
Electric vehicles comprehensively outperform gasoline vehicles. They're more
powerful, cheaper, simpler, quieter, and flexible. Gasoline vehicles come
with baggage like gears, powertrains, combustion, flywheels, mufflers, etc.
none of which are present in electric vehicles.
Electric cars can have an independent motor on each wheel (individual wheel drive)
and computer-controlled suspension, opening new avenues of performance.
High-performance manufacturers such as Porsche are embracing electric vehicles. The next
generation of supercars will be electric.
A critical feature of electric motors is quietness, which is especially important for
light electric vehicles. Light gasoline-powered vehicles are loud and there's no way to make them
quiet. This is important for the health of cities.
There is a myth that public transportation is better than private transportation.
Bull. Its better if everyone has a compact EV than to have public transportation. Calculations in the
textbook.
Cities are poorly planned. Travel time could be reduced by designing new cities from scratch.
Textbook on electric vehicles and supercars: https://www.jaymaron.com/vehicle.html
This is a physics matter. Politicians should have a physicist on staff.
A Current Happening
December 18, 2020.
jaymaron comments on Dec 19, 2020:
Can you expand on politics in Alberta?
jaymaron comments on Dec 19, 2020:
Can you expand on politics in Alberta?
Found this comment in FB and thought of the IDW Community.
jaymaron comments on Dec 19, 2020:
Yes, wind and solar have feeble capacity, and the magnitudes need to be appreciated.
You want as much energy as possible, to make energy cheaper. Hence you need to maximize
all forms of energy. Also, each form has its own unique role. You need methane for heating and for
hydrogen production. You need coal for metal smelting. You need oil for vehicle fuel.
Hydro cannot expand. All hydro worth harnessing has been harnessed. The energy forms capable
of bigly expansion are nuclear and biomass. Wind and solar are not yet there. If they were, people would
be build it, and they aren't. This hard fact needs attention.
Textbook on the energy economy: https://www.jaymaron.com/earth.html
What is the energy situation in Canada?
jaymaron comments on Dec 19, 2020:
Yes, wind and solar have feeble capacity, and the magnitudes need to be appreciated.
You want as much energy as possible, to make energy cheaper. Hence you need to maximize
all forms of energy. Also, each form has its own unique role. You need methane for heating and for
hydrogen production. You need coal for metal smelting. You need oil for vehicle fuel.
Hydro cannot expand. All hydro worth harnessing has been harnessed. The energy forms capable
of bigly expansion are nuclear and biomass. Wind and solar are not yet there. If they were, people would
be build it, and they aren't. This hard fact needs attention.
Textbook on the energy economy: https://www.jaymaron.com/earth.html
What is the energy situation in Canada?
[sharylattkisson.
jaymaron comments on Dec 19, 2020:
Otherwise known as Agent Bang Bang.
jaymaron comments on Dec 19, 2020:
Otherwise known as Agent Bang Bang.
Breitbart: India alarmed by PLA road building in their disputed border region.
jaymaron comments on Dec 19, 2020:
In the football film "Any Given Sunday", Coach Pacino warns that you can't yield even an inch.
They'll seize the inch and take an additional yard.
India needs to draw a hard line in the sand, down to the inch.
China takes every inch it can get.
jaymaron comments on Dec 19, 2020:
In the football film "Any Given Sunday", Coach Pacino warns that you can't yield even an inch.
They'll seize the inch and take an additional yard.
India needs to draw a hard line in the sand, down to the inch.
China takes every inch it can get.
Breitbart: India alarmed by PLA road building in their disputed border region.
jaymaron comments on Dec 19, 2020:
To paraphrase Gingrich:
To fight China you have to understand the game of Go. For every island they create in the sea, build
5 of your own islands, closer to China than that island.
India should build up its border to the max.
jaymaron comments on Dec 19, 2020:
To paraphrase Gingrich:
To fight China you have to understand the game of Go. For every island they create in the sea, build
5 of your own islands, closer to China than that island.
India should build up its border to the max.
Tucker Carlson Sounded An Alarm About 2024!! Inflation.
jaymaron comments on Dec 19, 2020:
This is a great reason for red states to secede. Leave the blue states with the debt.
Once upon a time The Union was a cool club. Texas fought bravely for independence from Mexico and then joined The Union. There are several states that joined the union on the condition that the union
take on the state's debt. Now the situation has reversed and it's better for states to not be
in The Union.
Puerto Rico has crippling debt. They cannot secede. This is not widely reported. The leftist government
in Puerto Rico took on heavy debt knowing that the United States is pledged to take responsibility for
that debt. What did they accomplish with all that spending? Not hurricane defenses, apparently. Puerto Rican
politicians should be shamed for their debt.
There are several states with crippling debt, the most prominent being Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, and New Jersey. See the plot. They're spatially contiguous. That's a hot potato nobody wants.
The cities with the most debt are New York City, Honolulu, Philadelphia, and Honolulu.
https://www.jaymaron.com/civilwar.html
jaymaron comments on Dec 19, 2020:
This is a great reason for red states to secede. Leave the blue states with the debt.
Once upon a time The Union was a cool club. Texas fought bravely for independence from Mexico and then joined The Union. There are several states that joined the union on the condition that the union
take on the state's debt. Now the situation has reversed and it's better for states to not be
in The Union.
Puerto Rico has crippling debt. They cannot secede. This is not widely reported. The leftist government
in Puerto Rico took on heavy debt knowing that the United States is pledged to take responsibility for
that debt. What did they accomplish with all that spending? Not hurricane defenses, apparently. Puerto Rican
politicians should be shamed for their debt.
There are several states with crippling debt, the most prominent being Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, and New Jersey. See the plot. They're spatially contiguous. That's a hot potato nobody wants.
The cities with the most debt are New York City, Honolulu, Philadelphia, and Honolulu.
https://www.jaymaron.com/civilwar.html
Are Catholics Morally Obliged to Vote?
jaymaron comments on Dec 19, 2020:
Democrats are morally obligated to vote even after death.
jaymaron comments on Dec 19, 2020:
Democrats are morally obligated to vote even after death.
From Powerline's (Paul Mirengoff)
> If Jill Biden hadn’t insisted on being called “Dr.
jaymaron comments on Dec 19, 2020:
Joe Biden: Hunter is the smartest person I know.
Tucker Carlson: Biden doesn't know any smart people.
Leftist commentator: The attack on Jill's thesis is misogynistic.
Tucker Carlson: We attack Joe more than Jill. It's clear that Jill is smarter than Joe.
Let's dredge up a large set of education theses and subject them
to critical analysis, especially theses from prestigious schools.
Let's have a full audit of the field of education.
Let's subject teachers to standardized tests. Let's compare the public and private schools.
Teachers don't want to be recorded because they're afraid people will see that they
suck.
jaymaron comments on Dec 19, 2020:
Joe Biden: Hunter is the smartest person I know.
Tucker Carlson: Biden doesn't know any smart people.
Leftist commentator: The attack on Jill's thesis is misogynistic.
Tucker Carlson: We attack Joe more than Jill. It's clear that Jill is smarter than Joe.
Let's dredge up a large set of education theses and subject them
to critical analysis, especially theses from prestigious schools.
Let's have a full audit of the field of education.
Let's subject teachers to standardized tests. Let's compare the public and private schools.
Teachers don't want to be recorded because they're afraid people will see that they
suck.
No casinos for you!
[futurity.org]
We are all immigrants here in North America.
jaymaron comments on Dec 18, 2020:
Being in America, the land of liberty, and
Having autonomous territory within America. Even better.
The Indians have it good!
The modern leftist autonomous zones are failures.
Number of people that 1 km^2 of land can support:
Indians (hunter gatherers) 1
18th Century Europeans 10 Agriculture and livestock
20th Century American farmers 50 Mechanization, genetic engineering, pesticides
Hydroponics 200
People reflexively assume colonialism is a bad thing. It can be a good thing. A good deal was possible.
European agriculture expanded the carrying capacity of the land. There was plenty of land for everyone.
Many native tribes joined America in wars against more hostile Indian tribes. You don't hear about these tribes.
When the aliens come, I'm getting on board their ship and leaving this provincial planet.
I'm going to the Galactic Institute of Technology.
I'm waving a towel around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-evIyrrjTTY
jaymaron comments on Dec 18, 2020:
Being in America, the land of liberty, and
Having autonomous territory within America. Even better.
The Indians have it good!
The modern leftist autonomous zones are failures.
Number of people that 1 km^2 of land can support:
Indians (hunter gatherers) 1
18th Century Europeans 10 Agriculture and livestock
20th Century American farmers 50 Mechanization, genetic engineering, pesticides
Hydroponics 200
People reflexively assume colonialism is a bad thing. It can be a good thing. A good deal was possible.
European agriculture expanded the carrying capacity of the land. There was plenty of land for everyone.
Many native tribes joined America in wars against more hostile Indian tribes. You don't hear about these tribes.
When the aliens come, I'm getting on board their ship and leaving this provincial planet.
I'm going to the Galactic Institute of Technology.
I'm waving a towel around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-evIyrrjTTY
So many things are a cycle... Where are we on this cycle?
jaymaron comments on Dec 18, 2020:
Haha France is on its 5th republic. The USA is still on its first.
Duration of the republic:
Ancient Rome 483 BC509-BC27. Ended when Octavian became emperor
Sparta 409 BC770-BC362. Began with Lycurgus' constitution
Ended with the battle of Mantinea
England 300 Begins in 1721 when Walpole becomes de-facto prime minister
America 232 Begins with Washington's presidency in 1789. Ongoing, but not for long.
Athens 173 BC510-BC338 Began with the constitution of Cleisthenes.
Ended with the battle of Chaeronea
Italy 75 1946-
Japan 74 1947-
Spain 43 Began in 1978 when King Juan Carlos instituted a transition to a republic
France Rep #1 13 1792-1804. Began with the French revolution
Ended when Napoleon became emperor
Poland 2 1791-1793. Began with a constitution inspired by America's constitution.
Ended when Poland was conquered. Alas
History of democracy: https://www.jaymaron.com/history.html
jaymaron comments on Dec 18, 2020:
Haha France is on its 5th republic. The USA is still on its first.
Duration of the republic:
Ancient Rome 483 BC509-BC27. Ended when Octavian became emperor
Sparta 409 BC770-BC362. Began with Lycurgus' constitution
Ended with the battle of Mantinea
England 300 Begins in 1721 when Walpole becomes de-facto prime minister
America 232 Begins with Washington's presidency in 1789. Ongoing, but not for long.
Athens 173 BC510-BC338 Began with the constitution of Cleisthenes.
Ended with the battle of Chaeronea
Italy 75 1946-
Japan 74 1947-
Spain 43 Began in 1978 when King Juan Carlos instituted a transition to a republic
France Rep #1 13 1792-1804. Began with the French revolution
Ended when Napoleon became emperor
Poland 2 1791-1793. Began with a constitution inspired by America's constitution.
Ended when Poland was conquered. Alas
History of democracy: https://www.jaymaron.com/history.html
NASA’s New “Metallic Glass” Gears Can Withstand Impact, Freezing Temperatures During Lunar ...
jaymaron comments on Dec 18, 2020:
The article doesn't say what metallic glass is.
Metallic glass is amorphous metal. Almost all metals are crystalline. Amorphous is a lack of crystalline
structure.
Crystalline structures tend to have grain boundaries between subcrystals, and these are the weak points in a
metal. This is where brittleness comes from. An amorphous metal doesn't have grain boundaries.
Y = Young's modulus = Force / Strain. In other words, stiffness.
S = Maximum strain before breaking. In other words, flexibility.
E = Maximum energy/mass that the material can withstand before breaking
= .5 Y S^2
E is what counts, and S contributes to E more strongly than Y. An amorphous metal has a higher value for S than a crystalline metal.
Textbook on metallurgy: https://www.jaymaron.com/materials.html
Amorphous metals: https://www.jaymaron.com/materials.html#amorphous
For space, we need to expand the science of low-termperature metals and high-temperature metals.
The efficiency of an electrical generator increases with temperature.
jaymaron comments on Dec 18, 2020:
The article doesn't say what metallic glass is.
Metallic glass is amorphous metal. Almost all metals are crystalline. Amorphous is a lack of crystalline
structure.
Crystalline structures tend to have grain boundaries between subcrystals, and these are the weak points in a
metal. This is where brittleness comes from. An amorphous metal doesn't have grain boundaries.
Y = Young's modulus = Force / Strain. In other words, stiffness.
S = Maximum strain before breaking. In other words, flexibility.
E = Maximum energy/mass that the material can withstand before breaking
= .5 Y S^2
E is what counts, and S contributes to E more strongly than Y. An amorphous metal has a higher value for S than a crystalline metal.
Textbook on metallurgy: https://www.jaymaron.com/materials.html
Amorphous metals: https://www.jaymaron.com/materials.html#amorphous
For space, we need to expand the science of low-termperature metals and high-temperature metals.
The efficiency of an electrical generator increases with temperature.
From Powerline's (Paul Mirengoff)
> If Jill Biden hadn’t insisted on being called “Dr.
jaymaron comments on Dec 18, 2020:
Not all Doctors are created equal.
A science degree is far more powerful than an education degree, and
the scientist is likely a better teacher. You do not need to get an education degree
to be a good teacher. Schools should hire people with
real degrees.
This is part of the war between public and private education.
Public schools require an education degree, which I feel is bull. It's a subsidy
for the academic industry. And teacher's colleges are unfun because they're full of leftists.
Teacher's unions want to decide pay by seniority and by degree. Bull. Especially since
an Ed.D is weak. Teacher pay should be decided by parents, made possible by
private schools and vouchers.
A physics degree trumps the degree of any other science. If you are a physicist then you
know the other sciences, and the reverse is not necessarily true.
In the world of engineering, nuclear engineers are at the top.
Let's use this incident to highlight the weakness of Ed.D degrees.
Shell that thesis.
jaymaron comments on Dec 18, 2020:
Not all Doctors are created equal.
A science degree is far more powerful than an education degree, and
the scientist is likely a better teacher. You do not need to get an education degree
to be a good teacher. Schools should hire people with
real degrees.
This is part of the war between public and private education.
Public schools require an education degree, which I feel is bull. It's a subsidy
for the academic industry. And teacher's colleges are unfun because they're full of leftists.
Teacher's unions want to decide pay by seniority and by degree. Bull. Especially since
an Ed.D is weak. Teacher pay should be decided by parents, made possible by
private schools and vouchers.
A physics degree trumps the degree of any other science. If you are a physicist then you
know the other sciences, and the reverse is not necessarily true.
In the world of engineering, nuclear engineers are at the top.
Let's use this incident to highlight the weakness of Ed.D degrees.
Shell that thesis.
Who is real news you can trust REAL News
Breitbart [breitbart.
jaymaron comments on Dec 17, 2020:
In a recent speech Trump praised Newsmax and OANN.
Please let's have a Trump Time show on some conservative TV network.
Trump also praised Carlson, Hannity, Watters, and Ingraham, and Pirro.
Even if Fox sells out, I feel confident that there will always be conservative networks out there.
jaymaron comments on Dec 17, 2020:
In a recent speech Trump praised Newsmax and OANN.
Please let's have a Trump Time show on some conservative TV network.
Trump also praised Carlson, Hannity, Watters, and Ingraham, and Pirro.
Even if Fox sells out, I feel confident that there will always be conservative networks out there.
StrategyPage: Chinese launcher reliability.
jaymaron comments on Dec 17, 2020:
America should be obsessed with expanding its launch capacity.
Launch capacity will be one of the most important factors in the future.
In WW2 what mattered was bomber capacity. In the Civil War it was rail capacity.
In the 18th century naval wars it was about how much spice you could move, and England moved
far more spice than the Dutch East India Company. The DEIC went bankrupt.
Shipping is now so cheap that moving stuff around on the Earth is no longer a factor.
SpaceX made an important contribution to ground launch by developing the Raptor methane engine.
The engine also has mighty power/mass. Power/mass is no longer an issue for rockets.
Exhaust speed in km/s:
Hydrogen+oxygen 4.4
Methane+oxygen 3.7
Kerosene+oxygen 3.3
Solid fuel 2.5
Almost all ground launch is done with kerosene or solid fuel. Hydrogen+oxygen can't be used
for the first stage because the density is too low.
The true future of launch is air launch. Launch a rocket with a ramjet at Mach .9.
Stratolaunch is building a launch aircraft.
Even better would be to design a Mach 5 ramjet for launch.
In km/s,
Equator .45
Commercial aircraft .27
Ramjet 1.5
Minimum for orbit 7.9
https://www.jaymaron.com/astronautics.html
jaymaron comments on Dec 17, 2020:
America should be obsessed with expanding its launch capacity.
Launch capacity will be one of the most important factors in the future.
In WW2 what mattered was bomber capacity. In the Civil War it was rail capacity.
In the 18th century naval wars it was about how much spice you could move, and England moved
far more spice than the Dutch East India Company. The DEIC went bankrupt.
Shipping is now so cheap that moving stuff around on the Earth is no longer a factor.
SpaceX made an important contribution to ground launch by developing the Raptor methane engine.
The engine also has mighty power/mass. Power/mass is no longer an issue for rockets.
Exhaust speed in km/s:
Hydrogen+oxygen 4.4
Methane+oxygen 3.7
Kerosene+oxygen 3.3
Solid fuel 2.5
Almost all ground launch is done with kerosene or solid fuel. Hydrogen+oxygen can't be used
for the first stage because the density is too low.
The true future of launch is air launch. Launch a rocket with a ramjet at Mach .9.
Stratolaunch is building a launch aircraft.
Even better would be to design a Mach 5 ramjet for launch.
In km/s,
Equator .45
Commercial aircraft .27
Ramjet 1.5
Minimum for orbit 7.9
https://www.jaymaron.com/astronautics.html
Many countries and private companies have ambitious plans to explore or mine the Moon.
jaymaron comments on Dec 17, 2020:
The two best platinum mines are metal asteroid craters, the Sudbury mine in Canada and the
Vrodefort mine in South Africa. We should look for metal asteroid craters on the moon.
A football-sized metal asteroid has 1 billion dollars worth of platinum. We should also be prospecting
near Earth asteroids for metal.
https://www.jaymaron.com/asteroidmining.html
You can use lunar ice for rocket fuel, life support, and radiation shielding.
Ice can be split into hydrogen+oxygen.
Article on lunar ice. jaymaron.com/astronautics.html#lunarice
jaymaron comments on Dec 17, 2020:
The two best platinum mines are metal asteroid craters, the Sudbury mine in Canada and the
Vrodefort mine in South Africa. We should look for metal asteroid craters on the moon.
A football-sized metal asteroid has 1 billion dollars worth of platinum. We should also be prospecting
near Earth asteroids for metal.
https://www.jaymaron.com/asteroidmining.html
You can use lunar ice for rocket fuel, life support, and radiation shielding.
Ice can be split into hydrogen+oxygen.
Article on lunar ice. jaymaron.com/astronautics.html#lunarice
About to gorge or be gorged upon
jaymaron comments on Dec 17, 2020:
The way to connect with animals is with food. Include them in the thanksgiving dinner.
Give them fine food, the same food we're eating. Stuff them until they're full and they pass out in a food coma.
Yay thanksgiving! Feast!
Once upon a time a wild cat was hanging out on my balcony. I gave it turkey and she ate
well more than a pound.
Ducks in a food coma. https://www.jaymaron.com/duckgoose.html
The world of wild cats. https://www.jaymaron.com/cat.html
Science of birdseed, feedstock, and fertilizer. https://www.jaymaron.com/ecology.html
jaymaron comments on Dec 17, 2020:
The way to connect with animals is with food. Include them in the thanksgiving dinner.
Give them fine food, the same food we're eating. Stuff them until they're full and they pass out in a food coma.
Yay thanksgiving! Feast!
Once upon a time a wild cat was hanging out on my balcony. I gave it turkey and she ate
well more than a pound.
Ducks in a food coma. https://www.jaymaron.com/duckgoose.html
The world of wild cats. https://www.jaymaron.com/cat.html
Science of birdseed, feedstock, and fertilizer. https://www.jaymaron.com/ecology.html
CCP has already won WW3
Read the link below and then ask yourself these questions.
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Great soundbite, that WW3 has already happened, and we already lost.
Great proof! Those bullet points are specific!
Leonard Cohen:
Everybody knows the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows good guys lost
Everybody knows fight was fixed
The poor stay poor. The rich get rich.
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Great soundbite, that WW3 has already happened, and we already lost.
Great proof! Those bullet points are specific!
Leonard Cohen:
Everybody knows the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows good guys lost
Everybody knows fight was fixed
The poor stay poor. The rich get rich.
What are your thoughts on getting groups of people who hold our beliefs together under one ...
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Fascinating balance of forces.
On the one hand, you want to maximize individual liberty and minimize government.
On the other hand, during war, you need a dictator. Central power is necessary for winning a war. Lincoln took control of the rail and telegraph systems during the civil war. The South failed to coordinate their industries with the war.
Ancient Rome had a badass constitution. Most offices were for 1 year and couldn't be repeated. Plenty of checks on
power. Modern governments should study it.
In Ancient Rome, invaders defeated the Roman army and were about to conquer Rome. The Roman
Senate went to Cincinnatus's farm and appointed Cincinnatus dictator. Cincinnatus used his dictator powers to marshall an army and he vanquished the invaders. He then resigned the dictatorship a mere 15 days after
being appointed and returned to his farm.
Sometimes you need a dictator. Appoint the right person. Appoint someone who will retire gracefully.
This page is a tribute to people who held power and retired gracefully. https://www.jaymaron.com/badass.html
America's Cincinnatus is Washington.
Upon retirement, Carter farmed.
Bill and Hillary didn't. In addition to the constitutional amendment limiting presidents to 2 terms,
there should be an amendment that requires retired presidents to farm.
Reagan retired to his ranch.
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Fascinating balance of forces.
On the one hand, you want to maximize individual liberty and minimize government.
On the other hand, during war, you need a dictator. Central power is necessary for winning a war. Lincoln took control of the rail and telegraph systems during the civil war. The South failed to coordinate their industries with the war.
Ancient Rome had a badass constitution. Most offices were for 1 year and couldn't be repeated. Plenty of checks on
power. Modern governments should study it.
In Ancient Rome, invaders defeated the Roman army and were about to conquer Rome. The Roman
Senate went to Cincinnatus's farm and appointed Cincinnatus dictator. Cincinnatus used his dictator powers to marshall an army and he vanquished the invaders. He then resigned the dictatorship a mere 15 days after
being appointed and returned to his farm.
Sometimes you need a dictator. Appoint the right person. Appoint someone who will retire gracefully.
This page is a tribute to people who held power and retired gracefully. https://www.jaymaron.com/badass.html
America's Cincinnatus is Washington.
Upon retirement, Carter farmed.
Bill and Hillary didn't. In addition to the constitutional amendment limiting presidents to 2 terms,
there should be an amendment that requires retired presidents to farm.
Reagan retired to his ranch.
Do you have a garden?
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Having a garden should be a point of virtue signaling, according to leftist logic.
Love Notbada6's rebelliousness.
Leftists love to boast about planting trees. It's not about planting trees, it's about what kind of tree to plant,,
where to plant it, and how to fertilize it.
Plant nut trees to help the birds. Plant nitrogen-fixing trees to help out the other plants.
Plant trees close to water. Trees need lots of water.
You want to help the largest trees because they already have a large carbon-capture factory in
place. Fertilize big trees.
Plant trees with taproots rather than flatroots. Flatroots can destroy buildings. Taproots can get to the
water table.
Textbook on ecology, fertilizer,, and trees: https://www.jaymaron.com/ecology.html#nuttree
Bafflingly, people often have both a front yard and a back yard. Minimize the front yard and maximize the
back yard, and plant hedges to keep the back yard out of sight. It would be hilarious if a conservative billionaire hero stepped in and moved the house up to the street so that the back yard can expand.
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Having a garden should be a point of virtue signaling, according to leftist logic.
Love Notbada6's rebelliousness.
Leftists love to boast about planting trees. It's not about planting trees, it's about what kind of tree to plant,,
where to plant it, and how to fertilize it.
Plant nut trees to help the birds. Plant nitrogen-fixing trees to help out the other plants.
Plant trees close to water. Trees need lots of water.
You want to help the largest trees because they already have a large carbon-capture factory in
place. Fertilize big trees.
Plant trees with taproots rather than flatroots. Flatroots can destroy buildings. Taproots can get to the
water table.
Textbook on ecology, fertilizer,, and trees: https://www.jaymaron.com/ecology.html#nuttree
Bafflingly, people often have both a front yard and a back yard. Minimize the front yard and maximize the
back yard, and plant hedges to keep the back yard out of sight. It would be hilarious if a conservative billionaire hero stepped in and moved the house up to the street so that the back yard can expand.
Have any of you been to your city council meetings to address your mayor and city administrator?
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Great idea. Get involved. Conservative reporters tried to attend San Francisco public city council meetings and were thrown out. They described the meetings as a bunch of bickering children from Lord of the Flies,, and if
people could see them, they would be horrified.
People are obsessed with national politics. Let's put energy into local politics. Either run or local office
or get involved with watchdog organizations. Caucus vigorously.
Rally baby rally!
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Great idea. Get involved. Conservative reporters tried to attend San Francisco public city council meetings and were thrown out. They described the meetings as a bunch of bickering children from Lord of the Flies,, and if
people could see them, they would be horrified.
People are obsessed with national politics. Let's put energy into local politics. Either run or local office
or get involved with watchdog organizations. Caucus vigorously.
Rally baby rally!
Kelly's Heroes Ambush scene, Tons of fun with MP-40s' Thompsons and Browning M 1917's
[youtube.com]
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Politicians want to subvert the 2nd amendment with things like clip size limits.
What's the point of having guns if the villains have better guns?
If a gunfight occurs, the goal is to win, not to virtue signal. Alternatively,
scare the villains off. What does it take to win? This is a physics question.
In a gunfight people tend to duck for cover. The handgun with the biggest bullet is the
Smith & Wesson 50 magnum. It makes cover irrelevant.
Ammunition is important in a gunfight. You want the luxury of being able to
blow ammunition. Have a 22 caliber gun with a maximal clip so you can
intimidate the villains into running away. Have a vest full of clips.
Have a compact 22 that you can draw fast.
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Politicians want to subvert the 2nd amendment with things like clip size limits.
What's the point of having guns if the villains have better guns?
If a gunfight occurs, the goal is to win, not to virtue signal. Alternatively,
scare the villains off. What does it take to win? This is a physics question.
In a gunfight people tend to duck for cover. The handgun with the biggest bullet is the
Smith & Wesson 50 magnum. It makes cover irrelevant.
Ammunition is important in a gunfight. You want the luxury of being able to
blow ammunition. Have a 22 caliber gun with a maximal clip so you can
intimidate the villains into running away. Have a vest full of clips.
Have a compact 22 that you can draw fast.
Why we have to be vigilant.
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Something that's real is that Trump bombastically won the first Republican primary debate while
standing in front of Reagan's Air Force 1, at the Reagan Library.
Hardly anyone was on the web in 1988. People rarely talked about politics then. They were more likely to
be occupied with passing cracked games around.
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Something that's real is that Trump bombastically won the first Republican primary debate while
standing in front of Reagan's Air Force 1, at the Reagan Library.
Hardly anyone was on the web in 1988. People rarely talked about politics then. They were more likely to
be occupied with passing cracked games around.
Wealthy Taxpayers Are Fleeing These States in Droves | Cato Institute
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
The moving truck companies did a good deed and tabulated state moving data. People are
moving to Arkansas, Arizona, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, N. Carolina, and S. Carolina.
People are moving away from California, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
More plots in https://www.jaymaron.com/america.html
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
The moving truck companies did a good deed and tabulated state moving data. People are
moving to Arkansas, Arizona, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, N. Carolina, and S. Carolina.
People are moving away from California, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
More plots in https://www.jaymaron.com/america.html
Socialism 101
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Venezuela has vast oil reserves and is not presently producing oil.
Venezuela is in a rainforest and has a river twice the size of the Mississippi and they don't have enough food.
Venezuela has infinite sun.
Venezuela should be a superpower. Brazil also has these advantages and they're harnessing them.
Brazil is the world's largest producer of bioethanol. Brazil is the 2nd largest producer of soy, behind only the
USA.
Energy: https://www.jaymaron.com/mining.html
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Venezuela has vast oil reserves and is not presently producing oil.
Venezuela is in a rainforest and has a river twice the size of the Mississippi and they don't have enough food.
Venezuela has infinite sun.
Venezuela should be a superpower. Brazil also has these advantages and they're harnessing them.
Brazil is the world's largest producer of bioethanol. Brazil is the 2nd largest producer of soy, behind only the
USA.
Energy: https://www.jaymaron.com/mining.html
Paradigm Shift on the Right?
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Before declaring his candidacy, Trump read Coulter's book "Adios America".
Palin had a similar spirit but didn't have the game to deliver it.
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Before declaring his candidacy, Trump read Coulter's book "Adios America".
Palin had a similar spirit but didn't have the game to deliver it.
Klueless Kampy Kamala is at it again. She is so far out of her depth its laughable!
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Teacher pay should be decided by parents. Have private schools, school choice, and vouchers so that
you can use can transfer money that the government would have spent on a public school to a private
school of your choice.
Public school unions are trying to separate pay from performance. They do it with seniority and number of
degrees.
A physics PhD is far more powerful than an education EdD. You don't need a degree from a teacher's
college to be a good teacher. Better to have a science PhD.
Abolish the requirement that public school teachers have to have a degree from a teacher's college.
Teacher's colleges are a mafia, and they're unfun because they're full of leftists.
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Teacher pay should be decided by parents. Have private schools, school choice, and vouchers so that
you can use can transfer money that the government would have spent on a public school to a private
school of your choice.
Public school unions are trying to separate pay from performance. They do it with seniority and number of
degrees.
A physics PhD is far more powerful than an education EdD. You don't need a degree from a teacher's
college to be a good teacher. Better to have a science PhD.
Abolish the requirement that public school teachers have to have a degree from a teacher's college.
Teacher's colleges are a mafia, and they're unfun because they're full of leftists.
Ebola Stricken Illegals from Congo Rushing into the US With Rolls of Hundred Dollar Bills
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
This was the subject of the Clancy novel "Executive Orders", where a hostile nation attacks
America with ebola and the president has to decide the level of quarantine. The situation is different
from covid plague because ebola has a far higher death rate.
The novel uses the same premise as the TV show "Designated Survivor", where a cabinet official
becomes president by freakish circumstances.
https://www.jaymaron.com/exhibit.html
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
This was the subject of the Clancy novel "Executive Orders", where a hostile nation attacks
America with ebola and the president has to decide the level of quarantine. The situation is different
from covid plague because ebola has a far higher death rate.
The novel uses the same premise as the TV show "Designated Survivor", where a cabinet official
becomes president by freakish circumstances.
https://www.jaymaron.com/exhibit.html
Here’s the latest woke idiocy from the west - the Vancouver Canuck’s orca whale logo has been ...
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
The Chief of the Seminoles said (paraphrasing):
The Seminoles are proud to be associated with Florida State.
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
The Chief of the Seminoles said (paraphrasing):
The Seminoles are proud to be associated with Florida State.
Rules for Radicals: What Constitutional Conservatives Should Know About Saul Alinsky - YouTube
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
I like Yiannopoulos' books, which have Rules for Trolling Radicals.
The Rules for Radicals work well as weapons against radicals.
This is typical of leftist thought. It doesn't survive the mirror test. It makes no attempt to avoid
hypocrisy.
Ayn Rand delivered a warning about people like Alinsky early on, with her character "Toohey"
in Atlas Shrugged.
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
I like Yiannopoulos' books, which have Rules for Trolling Radicals.
The Rules for Radicals work well as weapons against radicals.
This is typical of leftist thought. It doesn't survive the mirror test. It makes no attempt to avoid
hypocrisy.
Ayn Rand delivered a warning about people like Alinsky early on, with her character "Toohey"
in Atlas Shrugged.
This is an example of critic being deemed hate speech.
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
What's the point of having a gun if the villains have better guns? If a gunfight occurs, the goal is to
win, or scare the villains off. What does it take to win? This is a physics question.
In a gunfight people tend to duck for cover. The handgun with the biggest bullet is the
Smith & Wesson 50 magnum. It makes cover irrelevant.
Ammunition is important in a gunfight. You want the luxury of being able to blow ammunition. Have a 22 caliber gun with a maximal clip so you can intimidate the villains into running away. Have a vest full of clips.
Textbook on guns.
https://www.jaymaron.com/gun.html
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
What's the point of having a gun if the villains have better guns? If a gunfight occurs, the goal is to
win, or scare the villains off. What does it take to win? This is a physics question.
In a gunfight people tend to duck for cover. The handgun with the biggest bullet is the
Smith & Wesson 50 magnum. It makes cover irrelevant.
Ammunition is important in a gunfight. You want the luxury of being able to blow ammunition. Have a 22 caliber gun with a maximal clip so you can intimidate the villains into running away. Have a vest full of clips.
Textbook on guns.
https://www.jaymaron.com/gun.html
Question: "President Trump's action to tell the Ukrainian government that if they want U.
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
If the American government is handing out contracts to American corporations, quid pro quo is bad.
If America is helping other nations, there dadgum better be quid pro quo. America first!
Rep. Brooks: “There better be an expectation, for example, that military equipment we give the Ukraine is going to be used to fight the Russians. Another quid pro quo is that we have an expectation that Ukraine is not going to give that military equipment to any of our enemies like al Qaeda, the Islamic State, or what have you. If we give food, we expect that food aid to go to starving people. We don’t expect it to be sold on the black market for the profits of somebody who is going to be engaged in corrupt activities.
"So there is always a quid pro quo, or there should be, if we’re going to engage in responsible government,” Brooks continued. “That brings us to the question of whether Trump stepped across the line in requesting that Ukraine conduct an investigation into possible corruption. Absolutely Ukraine should investigate possible corruption. And we should not give any country aid that might be diverted because the entity that is getting that money is corrupt, and people are lining their pockets instead of using that money or assets of the United States of America for the purposes intended. In this instance, we have a treaty between the United States of America and the Ukraine that was signed by President Bill Clinton that obligates both Ukraine and the United States of America, and our respective governments to ferret out corruption."
"The president should be making anti-corruption efforts a part of any foreign aid transaction with any country on earth"
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/10/25/rep-brooks-when-the-u-s-govt-gives-another-country-something-there-better-dadgum-well-be-a-quid-pro-quo/
Quid pro Joe
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
If the American government is handing out contracts to American corporations, quid pro quo is bad.
If America is helping other nations, there dadgum better be quid pro quo. America first!
Rep. Brooks: “There better be an expectation, for example, that military equipment we give the Ukraine is going to be used to fight the Russians. Another quid pro quo is that we have an expectation that Ukraine is not going to give that military equipment to any of our enemies like al Qaeda, the Islamic State, or what have you. If we give food, we expect that food aid to go to starving people. We don’t expect it to be sold on the black market for the profits of somebody who is going to be engaged in corrupt activities.
"So there is always a quid pro quo, or there should be, if we’re going to engage in responsible government,” Brooks continued. “That brings us to the question of whether Trump stepped across the line in requesting that Ukraine conduct an investigation into possible corruption. Absolutely Ukraine should investigate possible corruption. And we should not give any country aid that might be diverted because the entity that is getting that money is corrupt, and people are lining their pockets instead of using that money or assets of the United States of America for the purposes intended. In this instance, we have a treaty between the United States of America and the Ukraine that was signed by President Bill Clinton that obligates both Ukraine and the United States of America, and our respective governments to ferret out corruption."
"The president should be making anti-corruption efforts a part of any foreign aid transaction with any country on earth"
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/10/25/rep-brooks-when-the-u-s-govt-gives-another-country-something-there-better-dadgum-well-be-a-quid-pro-quo/
Quid pro Joe
Peter Sellers doing accents and talking Dr.
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Dr. Strangelove is based on Dr. Edward Teller, the monster badass physicist that was the driver behind
the development of America's nuclear weapons.
There are many interviews of Teller on youtube where he discusses other physicists, and it's a
valuable resource for American history in that era. Especially watch the video where he discusses Szilard.
Peter Sellers singing an opera aria as a drunk Roman emperor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83ByBV9NDaE
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Dr. Strangelove is based on Dr. Edward Teller, the monster badass physicist that was the driver behind
the development of America's nuclear weapons.
There are many interviews of Teller on youtube where he discusses other physicists, and it's a
valuable resource for American history in that era. Especially watch the video where he discusses Szilard.
Peter Sellers singing an opera aria as a drunk Roman emperor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83ByBV9NDaE
Well, it's time to kick some ass, Bruce Lee Style
[youtube.com]
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Chuck doesn't do push ups. He does Earth downs.
Chuck does a roundhouse kick by holding out his foot and spinning the Earth.
The International Astronomy Union has designated the Earth-Chuck system as a double planet.
When Chuck fights with the Avengers he is known as "Demin man".
Iron Man's suit is constructed with an iron-denim alloy designed by Chuck.
All geodesics end at Chuck's foot.
Chuck follows the "Principle of most action".
Science-themed Chuck facts: https://www.jaymaron.com/chuck.html
I reference this fight heavily in my Shaolin textbook. https://www.jaymaron.com/shaolin.html
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Chuck doesn't do push ups. He does Earth downs.
Chuck does a roundhouse kick by holding out his foot and spinning the Earth.
The International Astronomy Union has designated the Earth-Chuck system as a double planet.
When Chuck fights with the Avengers he is known as "Demin man".
Iron Man's suit is constructed with an iron-denim alloy designed by Chuck.
All geodesics end at Chuck's foot.
Chuck follows the "Principle of most action".
Science-themed Chuck facts: https://www.jaymaron.com/chuck.html
I reference this fight heavily in my Shaolin textbook. https://www.jaymaron.com/shaolin.html
Kelly's Heroes Ambush scene, Tons of fun with MP-40s' Thompsons and Browning M 1917's
[youtube.com]
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Gun textbook. https://www.jaymaron.com/gun.html
jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:
Gun textbook. https://www.jaymaron.com/gun.html
6.
jaymaron comments on Dec 15, 2020:
The sun is dimming. https://www.jaymaron.com/earth.html#sun
Solar intensity has a big effect on climate. The "Medieval warming period", centered around the 12th century, was caused by an increase in solar intensity and it gave rise to the age of Vikings.
jaymaron comments on Dec 15, 2020:
The sun is dimming. https://www.jaymaron.com/earth.html#sun
Solar intensity has a big effect on climate. The "Medieval warming period", centered around the 12th century, was caused by an increase in solar intensity and it gave rise to the age of Vikings.
First looks at Hayabusa 2's asteroid samples
[bbc.co.uk]
jaymaron comments on Dec 15, 2020:
We should be prospecting metal asteroids, by crashing impactors into them and taking spectra.
We should also be looking for metal asteroid impacts on the moon.
A football stadium sized asteroid has a billion dollars of platinum group metals.
https://www.jaymaron.com/asteroidmining.html
jaymaron comments on Dec 15, 2020:
We should be prospecting metal asteroids, by crashing impactors into them and taking spectra.
We should also be looking for metal asteroid impacts on the moon.
A football stadium sized asteroid has a billion dollars of platinum group metals.
https://www.jaymaron.com/asteroidmining.html
The Future of Water Due to Global Overpopulation and Colonizing Saturn’s Moon Titan – Tony Odarg...
jaymaron comments on Dec 15, 2020:
Rivers: https://www.jaymaron.com/river.html
Groundwater: https://www.jaymaron.com/earth.html#groundwater
There is plenty of water and sun. The limiting factor is fertilizer.
jaymaron comments on Dec 15, 2020:
Rivers: https://www.jaymaron.com/river.html
Groundwater: https://www.jaymaron.com/earth.html#groundwater
There is plenty of water and sun. The limiting factor is fertilizer.
"Flynn Just The Start—Trump Can Hit Back At The Ruling Class By Pardoning Stockman, Snowden, And ...
jaymaron comments on Dec 14, 2020:
Brilliant suggestion. Strategic genius. And give Assange a budget and a team to help him.
For a recipient of secrets you need someone that is trustworthy, and Assange has proven he is trustworthy.
This is a rare quality among people.
jaymaron comments on Dec 14, 2020:
Brilliant suggestion. Strategic genius. And give Assange a budget and a team to help him.
For a recipient of secrets you need someone that is trustworthy, and Assange has proven he is trustworthy.
This is a rare quality among people.
I find it amazing that so many people still think Barack Hussein Obama was great president.
jaymaron comments on Dec 14, 2020:
No objective ranking is possible. Treat it like sports conferences.
Let the republican conference rank the republican presidents and let the democrat conference rank
democrat presidents, and print the rankings separately.
A thick-headed democrat thinks of Trump as a bad president. A wise democrat asks: how do republicans rank Trump? Oh, they rank him high? I need to be sensitive and understand why. Maybe I can improve the democrat party with this wisdom.
If you rank Trump as bad, it's equivalent to saying you're an extremist partisan. Call them out on it.
When they raise, raise them back.
A bigot thinks: "my party yay, your party boo!". A great statesman improves his party and expels the jerks.
The democrat party has no mechanism for expelling jerks.
President rankings and American election history: https://www.jaymaron.com/election.html
Trump is objectively universally acknowledged as the president that is the best golfer,
by Golf Digest and Bleacher Report. https://www.jaymaron.com/golf.html
Lots of people bash Trump over athleticism. Fact is he's an athletic icon. Best golfing president, created 17
golf courses (which create high-paying jobs and attract rich spenders), owned a professional football
team, sued and defeated the NFL over collusion, and is in the WWE hall of fame.
Yes, Trump is in the WWE hall of fame.
That means he has respect.
Love the Trump WWE memes.
jaymaron comments on Dec 14, 2020:
No objective ranking is possible. Treat it like sports conferences.
Let the republican conference rank the republican presidents and let the democrat conference rank
democrat presidents, and print the rankings separately.
A thick-headed democrat thinks of Trump as a bad president. A wise democrat asks: how do republicans rank Trump? Oh, they rank him high? I need to be sensitive and understand why. Maybe I can improve the democrat party with this wisdom.
If you rank Trump as bad, it's equivalent to saying you're an extremist partisan. Call them out on it.
When they raise, raise them back.
A bigot thinks: "my party yay, your party boo!". A great statesman improves his party and expels the jerks.
The democrat party has no mechanism for expelling jerks.
President rankings and American election history: https://www.jaymaron.com/election.html
Trump is objectively universally acknowledged as the president that is the best golfer,
by Golf Digest and Bleacher Report. https://www.jaymaron.com/golf.html
Lots of people bash Trump over athleticism. Fact is he's an athletic icon. Best golfing president, created 17
golf courses (which create high-paying jobs and attract rich spenders), owned a professional football
team, sued and defeated the NFL over collusion, and is in the WWE hall of fame.
Yes, Trump is in the WWE hall of fame.
That means he has respect.
Love the Trump WWE memes.
Yeah, but, Sadly Ken lost his pecker in the G,I,Joe wars during the seventies
jaymaron comments on Dec 14, 2020:
Old-school ads were cooler than modern progressive ads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGMI_mWmb7g
jaymaron comments on Dec 14, 2020:
Old-school ads were cooler than modern progressive ads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGMI_mWmb7g
“Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come...
jaymaron comments on Dec 14, 2020:
In the Neil Stephenson novel "Snowcrash", Enzo, the mafia boss (who is one of the good guys) says:
Emphasize personal relationships. That's how you escape the trap of self-perpetuating ideology.
On the one hand, one could describe oneself as a "conservative". Pretty good ideology, but it's still an ideology.
Or one could say: The founding fathers were cool. I study them and hope to be as cool as them.
The teacher is more important than the teaching. The soul of knowledge rests in the brains that hold it.
jaymaron comments on Dec 14, 2020:
In the Neil Stephenson novel "Snowcrash", Enzo, the mafia boss (who is one of the good guys) says:
Emphasize personal relationships. That's how you escape the trap of self-perpetuating ideology.
On the one hand, one could describe oneself as a "conservative". Pretty good ideology, but it's still an ideology.
Or one could say: The founding fathers were cool. I study them and hope to be as cool as them.
The teacher is more important than the teaching. The soul of knowledge rests in the brains that hold it.
“Modern liberalism suffers unresolved contradictions.
jaymaron comments on Dec 14, 2020:
We need concrete definitions. For conservatism I propose:
Minimalist government.
Favor local government over national government.
Maximimize separation of powers within government.
A natural corollary is social liberalism (individual liberty). It's built into the definition of conservatism.
Liberal is hard to define because there are 2 independent axes:
Political liberal (big government) and social liberal (individual liberty).
Modern demoocrats are politically liberal and socially conservative. They
abdicated social liberalism.
Republicans have always been politically conservative and now they've embraced
social liberalism.
Iron law of oligarchy: Societies evolve toward greater oligarchy.
Corporations love to merge. It's a form of collusion and price fixing. A
conservative politician recognizes that you need to continuously break up
corporations to counter the natural merger tendency. Republicans should be
doing this and aren't. Government also evolves toward centralism and you have to continuously
re-divide it.
Love Krunoslav's line: "That is why you only have one communist revolution."
jaymaron comments on Dec 14, 2020:
We need concrete definitions. For conservatism I propose:
Minimalist government.
Favor local government over national government.
Maximimize separation of powers within government.
A natural corollary is social liberalism (individual liberty). It's built into the definition of conservatism.
Liberal is hard to define because there are 2 independent axes:
Political liberal (big government) and social liberal (individual liberty).
Modern demoocrats are politically liberal and socially conservative. They
abdicated social liberalism.
Republicans have always been politically conservative and now they've embraced
social liberalism.
Iron law of oligarchy: Societies evolve toward greater oligarchy.
Corporations love to merge. It's a form of collusion and price fixing. A
conservative politician recognizes that you need to continuously break up
corporations to counter the natural merger tendency. Republicans should be
doing this and aren't. Government also evolves toward centralism and you have to continuously
re-divide it.
Love Krunoslav's line: "That is why you only have one communist revolution."
“History moves in cycles.
jaymaron comments on Dec 14, 2020:
https://www.jaymaron.com/meme.html
jaymaron comments on Dec 14, 2020:
https://www.jaymaron.com/meme.html
TownHall: Rep.
jaymaron comments on Dec 13, 2020:
Let's put that in skywriting. "Tlaib's district is the 3rd poorest in the country." Whose fault is that?
For the districts that are successful and carrying weight, why not appreciate? Why not ask how they did it?
jaymaron comments on Dec 13, 2020:
Let's put that in skywriting. "Tlaib's district is the 3rd poorest in the country." Whose fault is that?
For the districts that are successful and carrying weight, why not appreciate? Why not ask how they did it?
Protestors Demand Seattle Weed Store Hand over 15% of Profits | Seattle Real Estate Podcast.
jaymaron comments on Dec 13, 2020:
Anytime anyone makes money, the government finds a way to skim.
They're skimming Amazon in New York with a 3 dollar package tax.
In fact everyone will try to skim. Gangs, protesters, etc.
Now that looting is normalized and there are no criminal penalties, it's easy
to destroy a story, creating a fertile environment for gangs, and it makes it easy
for them to demand protection money.
A mafia-based society has potentially less skimming than a government-based
society. The mafia respects that if you overskim, the business fails. And if
you pay the mafia for "protection", they actually protect you, and they're good
at it. They're not going to let a rival gang skim you (or loot). Never forget
that the world is full of skim gangs and the only defense is to form your own
gang.
A fine concept from American history is the "local militia". In the revolutionary war,
people volunteered and had their own rifles. Even rich people volunteered. When there's
something strange in the neighborhood, who you gonna call? The cops won't come. Be a member
of the local militia.
jaymaron comments on Dec 13, 2020:
Anytime anyone makes money, the government finds a way to skim.
They're skimming Amazon in New York with a 3 dollar package tax.
In fact everyone will try to skim. Gangs, protesters, etc.
Now that looting is normalized and there are no criminal penalties, it's easy
to destroy a story, creating a fertile environment for gangs, and it makes it easy
for them to demand protection money.
A mafia-based society has potentially less skimming than a government-based
society. The mafia respects that if you overskim, the business fails. And if
you pay the mafia for "protection", they actually protect you, and they're good
at it. They're not going to let a rival gang skim you (or loot). Never forget
that the world is full of skim gangs and the only defense is to form your own
gang.
A fine concept from American history is the "local militia". In the revolutionary war,
people volunteered and had their own rifles. Even rich people volunteered. When there's
something strange in the neighborhood, who you gonna call? The cops won't come. Be a member
of the local militia.
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