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Sunday, December 13, 2020
TRACKING WITH CLOSEUPS: World Economic Forum: Welcome to 2030, Serf
From the 2016 document “8 predictions for the world in 2030”, well before anybody had heard of COVID-19. This is where the oligarchs are taking us with their “Great Reset”. Here are the bullet (ahem) points.
- All products will have become services.
- There is a global price on carbon.
- US dominance is over. We have a handful of global powers.
- Farewell hospital, hello home-spital.
- We are eating much less meat.
- Today’s Syrian refugees, 2030’s CEOs.
- The values that built the West will have been tested to breaking point.
- “By the 2030s, we'll be ready to move humans toward the Red Planet.”
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CONTEXT: Barotropic Global Ocean Tides
Continents interrupt the flow of tidal bulges, causing water to “slosh” in the oceans, resulting in complex timing and amplitude of tides.
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TRACKING WITH CLOSEUPS: French Solar Road a Total Failure
First French solar road completely broken after 3yrs
— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) December 13, 2020
Cost $5.2m, produced ½ the power bc rotting leaves
In total, produced 270,000 kWh, worth $13,000 (at wholesale €40/MWh)
Would have paid for itself after just 400 yearshttps://t.co/Nn3hJmfabbhttps://t.co/Eol4ACANl5
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12:10
CONTEXT: The Closest Stars
I've just put up my latest map: The Closest Stars. This (so far as I know) shows every confirmed star, brown dwarf and planet within 10 parsecs. If anything is missing or incorrect, I'd like to know! The zoomable version is here: https://t.co/4aDmxYhcY4 pic.twitter.com/NoOxiP4OZA
— Galaxy Map (@galaxy_map) December 12, 2020
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CONTINUITY: Spaceships, then and Now
John Polgreen illustration for 1959's Space Flight – The Coming Exploration of the Universe, but Lester del Rey. A children's book, but if you could somehow turn 1959 into an image, this would have to be in the running. pic.twitter.com/n9Lm4enjOB
— Paul Drye (@paul_drye) December 12, 2020
Not all that different from Starship, at first glance, although the stage allocation is different. And who imagined everything being reusable?
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