01-Top!

Peak Effort

Flag Hill – Sunol Regional Wilderness
  1. Question every requirement; have the name of the person who made it.
  2. Delete any part or process you can do without. Restore 10% back later if necessary.
  3. Simplify & optimize the remaining parts/processes.
  4. Accelerate the cycle time.
  5. Automate only after doing all the above, and the bugs have been shaken out.

Elon Musk’s Business Development Algorithm

25-Trix

Mitochondria

<- 3-D drawing • microscopic photo ->

Mitochondria supply the energy in the cell.

Heart muscle cells have the most mitochondria, thousands per cell.

High-intensity interval training in aerobic exercises such as biking and walking cause cells to make more proteins for their energy-producing mitochondria, effectively stopping aging at the cellular level.

What would happen if all the mitochondria in your body released all their energy at once?

24-Mare

LUNAR DATA

Moon has Stories to Tell

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Click on the image to enlarge, look closely at the bottom; just left of center is newly named Monet’s Fault.

23-Dice

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

Ground Zeros

The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they seemed to become with it, and with themselves as well.

They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miserable with it as it grew in richness & power & beauty; for then, perhaps, it was easier for them to see that something was missing in the garden, some tree or shrub that would not grow.

When the world was in darkness & wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it.

But when the world became bright with reason & riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle’s eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn.

Well, they were going to destroy it again, were they – this garden Earth, civilized & knowing, to be torn apart again that Man might hope again in wretched darkness.

A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)