==== August 2020 ==== Reading [[reading:if_then]]. Reaching for contemporary fiction as antidote to Fred Hoyle. --- //[[rob@annable.co.uk|Rob Annable]] 2020/08/05 22:55// ---- [[reading:the_end_of_everything]] - excellent cosmology audiobook. [[:de_sitter_space]] needs more exploration. Thunderstorm teases us then rumbles on. Desperate for a cool breeze. Mars notes needed : [[research:interplanetary]] --- //[[rob@annable.co.uk|Rob Annable]] 2020/08/11 20:56// ---- {{:storm.jpg?600&direct}} --- //[[rob@annable.co.uk|Rob Annable]] 2020/08/11 22:05// ---- Listening to the [[https://www.interplanetary.org.uk/post/195-jack-van-loon-artificial-gravity|Interplanetary Podcast]] episode on ethics and gravity - feels like one of the most important episodes for some time. Work place ethics arguably untenable without some recognition of health impacts and economic arguments compelling. [[:inflatable_habs]] such as Bigelow avoiding this topic? Why not address both? Note to re-examine Good Year project. --- //[[rob@annable.co.uk|Rob Annable]] 2020/08/12 17:33// ---- Travelling through the [[:peak_district]] listening to [[reading:the_end_of_everything]] and attempting to understand heat death and vacuum decay. Quality of writing evidenced by the fact that I can just about follow it. Particle physics [[:standard_model]] and Cosmological [[:concordance_model]] //slightly// better understood. [[research:artificial_gravity]] paper showing real promise. Digital [[research:materials]] needs further examination and experiment as [[:rammed_earth]] concept. Sunflowers of epic proportions at home must surely be [[:aquaponic]] related thanks to pond irrigation? --- //[[:rob_annable]] 2020/08/15 21:26// ---- Realising 1971 brought Blue by Joni Mitchell and Tapestry by Carole King. Joplin's Pearl too. [[research:artificial_gravity]] paper on basketball free throws and Coriolis effect enlightening. Orientation cues, curved floors, vertical movement perpendicular to Coriolis. Reading [[reading:The Child Garden]] --- //[[:rob_annable]] 2020/08/19 21:32// ---- [[research:materials:aircrete]] and [[research:hyposubjects]] --- //[[:rob_annable]] 2020/08/21 11:34// ---- Damson tree harvest to share with the neighbourhood. Time I made an effort with [[:Damson_jam]] instead of just giving away everything? {{:journal:damson.jpg?direct&400|}} --- //[[:rob_annable]] 2020/08/22 13:27// ---- Parts ordered for [[making:very slow movie player]]. Wondering how orientation in [[research:artificial_gravity|artificial gravity]] can learn from [[research:Galina_Balashova]]. --- //[[:Rob Annable]] 2020/08/24 19:13// ---- [[research:Galina_Balashova|Balashova]] text inspiring reading on Soviet housing. Alternatively, [[research:Scandinavian housing]] research from same period could be interesting. Ordered copy of [[Settling the World]] : https://www.waterstones.com/book/settling-the-world/m-john-harrison/jennifer-hodgson/9781912697281. ---- Had the pleasure of taking part in [[Interplanetary Podcast]] episode 200, where we discussed 'Oumuamua and the debate about whether it could be alien tech, as well as supernova traces deposited on the surface of the earth. A fact or fiction quiz foxed me, discovering that if you attempted to reach Proxima Centauri with chemical propulsion you'd need fuel tanks the size of the observable universe.... https://www.interplanetary.org.uk/post/200-spodcast-200 --- //[[:Rob Annable]] 2020/08/28 20:27//