Category Archives: Development
03-Cast
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What does it mean?
Found this diagram in some library book.
Re: “termite castle” culture – Swarms of termites build castle-like structures without supervision or a centralized plan. Working independently without communication or a leader, they proceed using environmental cues.
Back in 2012, as we drove south on the Mulligan Hwy in Australia and got down on the valley floor, we must have passed thousands of little termite castles.
Unfortunately, my environmental cues were not strong enough to make me stop the car and take a picture of any of those many interesting insect homes. Not one closeup photo; sad.
Mulligan Highway
Everlasting Impressions of Australia
16 photos · 11 views
27-Dart
Outer Space
What you can do or think you can do, begin it.
For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
GOETHE (Mehr Licht!)
18-Lift
Propulsion
If you’ve never seen a SpaceX rocket take off, now is the time.
Hobbes describes life as “nasty, brutish, and short”.
Keltner believes evolution has given Homo sapiens emotions like gratitude, joy, amusement, and compassion.
Mark Leviton Thomas [Sun Magazine – September]
02-Bump
Do a search on Google and you’ll find that MMXXII.com‘s place on page 6 is preceeded by MMXXII.io on page 3.
For a “big picture” view of what the metaverse has in mind, take a look at A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959).
Thomas Hobbes’s describes life as “nasty, brutish, and short,” Keltner believes evolution has given Homo sapiens emotions like gratitude, joy, amusement, and compassion because they help us survive and build cooperative, ethical societies.
Dacher Keltner on the Science of Awe by Mark Leviton
04-Anur
To the Moon
Korea Aerospace Research Institute of South Korea is exploring the moon with Danuri.
This Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter is tasked with surveying lunar resources such as water ice, uranium, helium-3, silicon, and aluminium, and will produce a topographic map to help select future lunar landing sites.
Mission is scheduled to be launched today, 4 August 2022, on a Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
rocketlaunch.live <- look for video from 2022
11-Redi
Architecture
02-Comm
Gathering
There are so many high-tech specialists in Silicon Valley that few speak the same language.
- Ideas
- Events
- People
You can call this the common room.