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June 5, 2021 Archives
Saturday, June 5, 2021
CONTEXT: Ben-Hurley-Davidson
CONTINUITY: SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy Orbital Test Animation
CONTEXT: Seth Shostak—Alien Hunter
Here is my review of Dr Shostak's book, Confessions of an Alien Hunter.
TRACKING WITH CLOSEUPS: Two Papers “Proved” This Surface Couldn’t Exist—Then It Was Constructed
Here is background on the Barth sextic, and a deeper dive by John Baez. A 1997 proof showed that no sextic can have more than the 65 double points of Barth's construction.