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Month: October 2013
The Rope
Concept Space
Know those vague media-marketing-consultant-collective businesses that never explain what they actually do? This is all of them.
A good OHNY haul
ohny.org was productive this weekend. 1) sound lab at arup engineering, where they can recreate sounds from arbitrary built and imaginary spaces, 2) brooklyn army terminal, massive wwii era warehouse, 3) old croton aqueduct, gave rise to chase bank and kept nyc from running out of water, 4) FDR house in manhattan, where he recovered from polio and put together plans for the new deal, 5) old TWA terminal at JFK, it is hard to imagine a more james bond airport.













Horror Movie Daycare
daycare is the worst
Largest structure
There is a structure that spans ~33% of the universe, 4b light years.
2021-01-17: Things get much bigger still at a size of 10B LY
Simulation Hypothesis
1D carbon
with a tensile strength of 300 gigapascal, this material is 5x stronger than what is deemed necessary for a space elevator. leave in some safety margin and you can still build a much less massive space elevator (once you synthesize 100Ks of km of this stuff, of course)
Automatic 3d extrusion
Amazing ui
Spätzle
Cross cultural understandings
