Yesterday morning, I was checking out the Texas electrical grid (ERCOT), to see if the previous night’s snowfall was going to cause problems. Sally T. Intern braves the 1/4″ of snow this morning to get to her paying job. Her hard-currency income is essential for the day-to-day operational expenses of WLBOTT. The grid looks like […]
Category: TechnoBLOTT
All WLBOTT employees (paid and unpaid) will be required to participate in a data logging experiment. Employees will wear a variety of data logging sensors for a 72 hour period. We will be measuring: Please note that this will be an international effort. [ed. note: although we are careful to only include family-friendly content, and […]
The Lunar Oxygen Viability Experiment NASA didn’t just let WLBOTT walk in the front door! We went thru a rigorous vetting process (similar to GQP cabinet position appointments). The goal is to create an oxygen-rich atmosphere with an air pressure similar to that at the top of Mt. Everest. How Much Oxygen is Required? As Elder G cheerfully suggests: […]
NASA graciously invited WLBOTT R&D to present our concept for pressurizing and oxygenating the moon. The Visualization In a nutshell, we hope to pressurize the moon to facilitate human colonies and get rid of those pesky micrometeorites. The Pitch Dr. Zenith A. Fluster, representing the Oblivitronix (details here) division, gave an impassioned presentation, unaware that […]
LOX of L.O.V.E. The Lunar Oxygen Viability Experiment Today WLBOTT embarks on a bold new initiative: LOX of L.O.V.E. In partnership with NASA, we commit to generating an oxygen-rich atmosphere on the moon. Although there are enormous technical challenges, the concept is deceptively simple. The moon’s “soil,” or lunar regolith, is rich in oxygen-bearing minerals. […]
A WLBOTT RESEARCH PROPOSAL [Thanks to UC#1 for his research proposal] One of the great unsolved mysteries of life is, “How can I watch the missing ‘Dr Who’ episodes?” Extensive research has been done in BBC archival sites, personal collections and homes of known hoarders, but many of the early episodes remain lost to the […]
Today we go down the Periodic Table rabbit hole. Many of today’s screen shots are from the excellent web site Periodic Tables.com Human Abundance What exactly are you full of? https://periodictable.com/Properties/A/HumanAbundance.html Q: Did you hear about the boy that ate uranium?A: He got an atomic ache. Notice how uranium is present in the human body. […]
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two pioneers of artificial intelligence — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionizing the way we work and live but also creates new threats for humanity. Hinton, who is known as the godfather of […]
Good morning, WLBOTT World! The word for today is transformation—a fitting theme for personal growth, just like our WLBOTT blog. – Elder G Yesterday’s BLOTT featured the small, self-contained 1MW personal fusion generator (P-FuG). But how do we get from our current state of engineering to the P-FuG? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_value_theorem In a nutshell, the Intermediate Value […]
A Morning Greeting from Elder G It does sound like a lovely day. How about metanoia for today’s word? It means a profound transformation of heart or change in one’s way of life, often associated with spiritual or personal growth. It feels like a fitting word for the theme of transformation we’re all working on […]