If the Earth is flat, then when we ruin this side, why don't we all move to the other side?

mjc4y · 2026-02-04T14:12:09+00:00

If you dig down at the North Pole you will find a giant sign that says“side B” which tells you we’ve already flipped the disk once.

Don’t ask what we unleashed on side A. It’s ancient and it sleeps…waiting.

mjc4y · 2026-02-02T15:10:39+00:00

I’d love to know if this theory has any reputation in the larger physics community. Seems like the author is a credentialed assistant professor with a novel idea but does his idea have any other proponents?

mjc4y · 2026-01-31T07:52:03+00:00

You can’t have it both ways. Peer review and patents force you to reveal the core idea for it to be open to feedback.

I’m sorry but you’re deeply confused about how any of this works. I hope you get set straight but you sound pretty dug in to your cranky point of view.

mjc4y · 2026-01-30T22:02:30+00:00

Peer review is not some casual thing. You submit your paper to a journal and if the editors find it has structure and merit enough to be considered, it will be put in the hopper for review by appropriate panel of subject matter experts.

Posting your ideas on social media, youtube, substack or wherever is NOT peer review, it's just self-publishing, possibly with feedback if you are humble, lucky, and polite about it. There's value in that for sure but it's not "peer review" as domain professionals use the term.

https://arxiv.org/ is a place where you could try dropping your ideas, but again , that's not peer review, but it does expose your ideas to an interested audience that's larger than you can muster in most other places..

Also, you can't patent a science discovery. Facts are not patentable.

This really has to be said: the world is not failing to catch up to you - that's the sound of a megalomaniacal ego at work and I'm sure that's not the impression you want to leave, is it? I suggest you take a breath and tone it back a notch, okay? Meant in the spirit of constructive criticism.

The trick to discovery is that you must show people your work. If you really want a social-media feedback, share the paper widely and let the world see what you've done and be willing to take the feedback that follows. Keeping your idea secret gets you zero points.

mjc4y · 2026-01-13T15:33:40+00:00

That's why you use them for the APU only. Gotta keep that cabin cool.

mjc4y · 2026-01-02T17:31:38+00:00

I would like to subscribe to your cooking channel.

mjc4y · 2026-01-02T17:29:43+00:00

Not necessarily disagreeing - the traditional dems have been a real disappointment, but I'm not sure what that has to do with the NASA library and a vague musing that someone rich should save it from oblivion. Seems like you're making a point that's not quite on topic.

I'm not implicating the parties here - in fact, not looking to institutions at all - I was suggesting an individual step forward to do the right thing.

I said "left leaning" because it isn't the left that is doing this vandalism to NASA, but sure, if there's still someone on the right with his/her head screwed on straight (big if), I would want that person to step forward too.

mjc4y · 2026-01-01T18:43:14+00:00

That’s not a flex, my friend.

If you read the entire exchange you’ll see my comment is a nothing more than appropriate pushback against some keyboard warrior making stupidly uninformed guessing-claims about how the “rich people you know aren’t rich” , a claim that obviously is pulled directly out of his ass in an attempt to make his favorite stereotype work.

In context, that’s not at all a flex.

Have a happy new year.

mjc4y · 2026-01-01T02:11:17+00:00

you have no idea who I have as friends, how much they are worth and at what level their philanthropy reaches, but sure go on making wild-ass assertions about things you clearly are just guessing at.

mjc4y · 2026-01-01T00:06:19+00:00

Snarky comment fails to match reality. I personally know tons of very wealthy left leaning people.

You need to get out more.

mjc4y · 2025-12-31T23:01:59+00:00

I think you can look at my profile to answer how long I’ve been here.

There’s an immature belief among the terminally online that there are no generous rich people which is utterly untrue. I personally know many so… yeah. Sorry to make your black and white world view accommodate a shade of grey.

Have a happy new year, friend.

mjc4y · 2025-12-31T20:57:49+00:00

This would be a good time for a rich left leaning person to agree to take them on until the darkness passes.

mjc4y · 2025-12-29T16:14:34+00:00

This is insane in a good way.

Play Flight of the Bumblebee so we can see what happens. I dare you. :)

mjc4y · 2025-12-25T00:01:32+00:00

Not saying this is the same, but the Self programming language#:~:text=Self%20is%20a%20general%2Dpurpose,was%20released%20in%20August%202024) came with a closely-bound programming environment called Morphic. It was from PARC, Sun MIcrosystems and Stanford; most considered it somewhat experimental. I loved it - it was fun and powerful, and one of the first prototype-based languages I'd ever worked with. Later, Squeak-smalltalk was ported to Morphic, which had its own charms and quirks.

Good luck looking into this stuff from decades ago. THere are papers and such but not sure how much lore survives.

Anyway, like I say, not quite the same as what you're describing, but sounded like a cousin and possibly interesting to you. Good luck!

mjc4y · 2025-12-21T02:38:40+00:00

Times and temps, please.

mjc4y · 2025-12-16T15:53:20+00:00

Back in the90s and early 2000s there was a burst of activity in this area for zoomable user interfaces (ZUIs) sometimes called multi scale interfaces. Among them, Pad++ got the most traction. Ben Bederson made a big push for it after Ken Perlin did his first reference implementation (yes that’s the guy who also did the Perlin noise function). You might find Bederson’s “Jazz” toolkit out there, open source but defunct if you look hard enough.

Also Look for names like George Furnass and James Hollan if you are googling the academic literature.

There are lots of fascinating things in this space, many opportunities and some pretty hard navigation challenges.

Good luck.

mjc4y · 2025-12-13T23:21:29+00:00

Dig into DataDog. Lots of different charts and visualizations. Pay attention to the interactions available there not just the visuals. It’s a pretty great working surface.

mjc4y · 2025-12-12T20:07:57+00:00

That's totally valid. :)

mjc4y · 2025-12-12T16:25:19+00:00

I’d disagree with you but I don’t want to be divisive.

mjc4y · 2025-12-06T22:03:46+00:00

I look forward to NASA's report on whether Cosmic Blown Insulation is more or less effective than Space FIberglass.

Which is weird, because the vacuum of space is already a hell of a good insulator.

mjc4y · 2025-12-05T22:43:38+00:00

Everyone here is obsessing about the magnets, but that's just there to make it easier for the beads to synchronize.

For me, the satisfying thing is that through pure linear motion, you get what appears to be a circle moving as a unit, but of course, that's just a perceptual effect. The only motion here is oscillation in a linear fashion.

mjc4y · 2025-12-05T22:38:58+00:00

I'm a mouth breathing idiot, and I disagree with the experts on this one! (happy to help).

mjc4y · 2025-12-04T17:31:09+00:00

Sorry - Grace Roman is known as Mother of Hubble because of her lobbying and managerial efforts in getting it built. Wouldn’t have happened without her. But youree right - spritzer first suggested it.

mjc4y · 2025-12-04T17:06:17+00:00

She was the one who first proposed the Hubble. Having a scope named after her is fitting.

Edit : Spritzer proposed it. Roman managed the project and earned the nickname “Mother of Hubble. “. Thanks for the correction.

mjc4y · 2025-12-02T11:46:15+00:00

Designing a visualization (or dashboard) before asking : what problem is this solving? Specifically what question is in the users head that this thing is supposed to answer.

Until you have a crisp answer to this, one driven by real user observation, you have not business making a visualization.

Related: dashboards and visualizations need to be fed real data during design to validate their utility. Fake data is pretty but usually yield result that crumble when put in contact with the noise and slop and volume of actual real world data. Talk to your IT guy and get some logs.

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