Microsoft once announced that it noticed a user had found that roaches stopped when he used his remote, but they continued moving after some time, probably becoming used to the remote signal. This portends someone designing “cockroach controllers” that remotely run the little creatures around.
Imagine sales ads: “Tell your roaches, ‘you’re in our sights’” with our new controller. Let them know who’s boss.
How about Hasbro toys: “Let your kids get rid of any bugs! Squash them flat while you watch!”
Or jazzing out your girlfriend - get one to run by her feet when you feel ‘in a manly mood’ to do something for her.
Boring bugs could become the new fad! And where would the chemical companies be then? What better use?
David Schaedler
10/12/15
SKIN AND SLEEP
What do these two photos have in common? NOTHING, except that I seperated from a black woman and now I cannot sleep. I think it was my stupidity, Melanin colors the skin that I don’t touch now and Melatonin is the sleep (hormone) that I don’t get now. HAHA. THEY’RE DIFFERENT WORDS! I didn’t know that, now I do. Maybe knowledge does have a strong effect on sleep. I explored quite a few other realms of sleep. Thinking about it now, I’d rather sleep ... another haha. Got my laughs today.
David Schaedler
10/13/15
Tumblr, Tumblr!
@staff Does the dog have a name?
Emergency Spillway eroding, possibly near collapse. National Weather Service issues Evacuation Warnings. ABC News10 5:00-6:00 pm PST. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Oroville, Palermo, Gridley residents please, GET OUT! Evacuation Center in the Chico Fairgrounds. DS 2/12/17
Additional Rains expected in 3 days. DS 2/12/17 7:00 pm PST. 8:00 pm. Chico Fairgrounds Full. Do not go there. I didn’t get the name of the church to be diverted to. See following posts. New10. Sacramento’s channel 3 News has news reports on this. Butte county residents call 211 for information. DS 2/12/17 Evacuation Orders lifted in Oroville Dam area. Residents pack for home. How much will repairs to both spillway's cost? White House pays attention to results. DS 2/14/17 5:00 pm PST.
The damage to the Oroville Dam Spillway is DANGEROUS. 185,000 cubic feet/s of Feather River water is coming into Lake Oroville and only 41,000 CFS is going out. The emergency 2nd Spillway may have to be used before morning, to avoid dam overflow. We need that water, and Oroville, including the dam.
David Schaedler 2/9/17 7:10 pm PST.
The 10th - the dam is 96.7% full, 5’ from the top. The broken spillway does not carry water along it all the way, the water is diverted outward about ½ way down. DS 2/10/17 Late 2/10/17 The dam is now 98.8% full. With so much rainwater entering, the damaged spillway can only remove much less than that. The rains have ceased today, but forecasts indicate more. How full can it get? ABC News 6:35 pm PST. 46 of 48 of Sacramento’s Weir’s are open. Overflow water is pouring through now. Dry, but more rain is expected. D. Schaedler 2/10/17 2/12/17 Oroville Reservoir overflows Dam. Emergency spillway in use. How long will this go on? DS 8:00 am PST.
. Oroville Dam water releases to be reduced today. Outflow reduced to zero. This will allow crews to work at the foot of the dam for debris removal. ABC10 News, 4:40 am PST.
The work is a necessary and required repair that Oroville Dam needs due to the tremendous rains recently experienced. The bottom of the spillway needs this from the previously large water releases due to the recent rains.
David Schaedler 2/27/17
World Problems?
As the previous blog mentioned, there are places and things out there that are not contained or looked after, either due to size and/or outside of one country’s realm of control. That blog mentioned that, even though the World’s oceans cover 72 million square miles, it not on it’s own, it has troubles no one nation can deal with. The United Nations has responsibility for “relations and commerce” rules between many nations; it took that over from “the League of Nations” after WW2, that didn’t redirect troubles then. Another hot spot is Antarctica, which no Nation has permanent settlements on, but there are stations at differing locations there. Space is no one’s property, but “The Big Three”, the US, Russia and China have put space vehicles on the Moon, a quarter of a million miles away. Does this mean these countries “control space”? No, it just means they reach farther than others, sooner. No, the things no nation has bearing over is right in front of our collective faces. During the USA’s 1969 Apollo program to the moon, and when at the Moon, it was remarked that the Earth looked like “a pale blue marble” and was “very small”. The World is growing smaller every day.
Since Guglielmo Marconi invented the first working wireless radio in 1894, we “have come a long way” from dots and dashes to Broadcast Radio to Television to the the Internet, completed in under 100 years. Not much later, the world is in our pockets, with instant visual communication on opposite sides of the Earth for those that own or can reach a computer with the Internet, and it is ubiquitous.
There is person to person visual communication, broadcasting by individual to groups - text, audio or video, stock markets, consumer companies in one country selling to peoples in a country thousands of miles away or next door, library borrowing of ancient texts by other libraries, schooling from Institutions to third world countries, monitoring by security services of all types and more. The Internet has a place in the world of communication, alongside radio, the telephone and television. Even though it can emulate those electronics, a simple radio or cell phone is cheaper and easier to use than a computer with a connection, and a television has timely broadcasting networks that computers with internet connections follow. The computer/internet has a place of it’s own. What will happen from this result?
The World
10 years after Marconi invented radio and connected all the world, WW1 began, then about 10 years (1918) to the Stock Market collapsing after stock prices plummeted. The “Great Depression” that followed lasted 10 years, preceding WW2, and about 10 years after that the Korean War - ended - in a ‘stalemate’, still going on. The “Cold War” began with Sputnik about 10 years later, which ended when America landed on the Moon in 1969 - about 10 years later. Interestingly, “the Internet” could be said to have begun in late 1970’s and early 1980’s, ten years after the Moon landing. The USSR broke up anywhere from 1992 to 1995 becoming “Russia”, and 2001 is a memory. Were we expecting 'something’ in 2000? Don’t forget 2006-8 was a World economic problem we pulled out of, slowly, to be sure; and by 2010 we were well 'back on our way’ to economic recovery. Marconi, what did you do? :-)
The generation retiring at this time is much larger size than the following one, from “the Baby Boom”, making financial recovery seemingly hard. They know what to do, but are not working to do it. And 2010 is about 10 years after 2000, another 'expectation’. What will happen 10 years after that? Wait another 5.75 years.
Sources: Wikipedia
DS
The ISS is over Arizona, travelling at 4.76 m/s, heading North, now! 8:45 am PST, 4/25/17.
Trump, he was a “showboat” and a “grandstander”.
President Trump, “Was he incompetent?”
David Schaedler 5/10/17, 5:39 pm PST.
Thanks.
December 8, 2013
Imagine above … the “Life Cycle of a Star”. It grows from gravity-fed interstellar matter until it glows, … then explodes to life! Some billions of years later, in burning out, begins to collapse, becoming smaller and smaller, massivity decreasing toward a single point, nuclear reactions ocurring for heavier ad heavier elements, ‘growing’ smaller and smaller. Soon mass will (may) become so compact, so small, as to draw in - even light! This occurs in the instant less than - a second! More mass at a point means more gravity by that point; What happened to ”E=Mc^2” ?! Inward implosions inflame interior recesses never yet seen, and the black hole, the dark star, forms. Stop. We are watching the event occur - in our time! - of a black hole forming.
What happens? At the ‘event horizon” we are watching at a safe distance in space-time, the ”dark star’s once-insides” turns black, reflecting, releasing, no more light energy, no more normal ”star-stuff”. Outside, light rushes away and escapes ultimate destruction, of crushingly into itself, informing the remaining universe of a star’s final furies. ”Gravity pulls material inward, gas pressure pushes outward”.
Basically, with these words, a black hole has formed.
Past the event horizon, no more light, or even possibly energy, escapes, and we no longer can tell, visually, virtually that anything is there. Nothing. But now, new rules. What happens when atomic and nuclear structure breaks apart?
It’s been said, similar to chemical reactions, some parts of those ”atom’s inside’s” slip away, when confronted with stronger energies, some other’s join up. Billions and billions of atoms, trillions more ‘re-actions’ until the ”Singularity” point in our space-time has been reached. More ”new rules”.
What happens to all that matter and energy that once was? All that massive, trillion-ton star mass … vanishing? What happens? Aside from - the fantastic flash of final flame that can be seen across a galaxy - nothing?
Nothing but the usual goings on of a trillion-ton ”gas mass”. With the incredible ”forms in space, forms of space and time”, the billions, the trillions! of reactions, … the energy … where does it go? Energy IS matter, matter, energy. Relentless energy, and … dark matter production, is there ‘nothing’ else? What ARE the ”new Dark Matter rules”? Do we have ”Dark Matter” with so much open and released energy?
DS