Neil Armstrong’s Insight
A month before Neil Armstrong’s infamous Apollo 11 flight, he, at the request of Life Magazine, reflected on the meaning of the soon-to-be moon landing.
Category: Science
Ears, eyes & mind can be easily influenced
If you listen to the above video, then begin to focus on each line of text for several seconds, you can easily convince yourself that they are indeed saying what’s printed on the screen. It appears that our ears, can be easily influenced. But, what about our eyes…
A Warning from Trees: Miyake Events
14,300 years ago, a pine forest in France bore witness to an event that has never been experienced in modern times: a bombardment of solar particles so fierce that it would likely knock out all communications satellites and fry power grids across the globe if it were to happen today. While we often point to the Carrington Event of 1859, (that knocked out all telegraph communications around the world), as a worst-case scenario, for solar storms, the 774-75 AD storm was at least 10 times stronger.
AI Hallucinations
AI is still in its infancy, so yes, you’d expect to run into some incongruencies and inaccuracies, however, you may not realize, but AI is known to hallucinate. In other words, it makes up things that do not exist. The following is a case in point.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Playlist
Today I am sharing my current Neil deGrasse Tyson “shorts” playlist from YouTube. Within it are his commentaries on everything from Newton to neutrinos and everything in between. While heavily science driven (well, of course), Neil often comments on everyday …
The Djinn Particle
In case you needed some food for thought this morning, take this into consideration. But wait, better get another cup of coffee first. We’re about the get “heady”! We’re talking about the blending of quantum physics, mysticism, and metaphysics. “Quantum metaphysics”?????