i-Rational Posts List

Math Posts:
Math Operations Tables
Fourier Analysis and Linear ODEs
Spherical Derivations
The Golden Spiral-Rectangle-Ratio-Number
Johnson Solids
Mathematical Parameterizations
The Disappearing Man Puzzle
Ellipses, Circles, Pi, Roots of Unity
Differential Equations Modeling
Numerical Systems
Mathland
Z-Plane Spirals
Cycloid Challenge
Permutations and Combinations
Probability Distribution
Pi Derivation
Counting Triangles
The Dot Pyramid Sequence and The Sum of the Diagonal Dot Pyramid Spiral
Random Number and Triangle Fields
Geopattern
Dice Probabilities
Pascal's Triangles and Expanding Polynomial Powers
Design Fun with Polar and Parametric Coordinates

Science Posts:
Home Physics Material
Evolutionary History
Human Evolution
The Boernhoft Theory (?)
Universal Cosmology and Evolution (!)
Simple Harmonic Motion
Doppler Shift and Bow/Shock Waves
Gravitational Orbits
Subduction Zones (!)
On Expanding Planets and Plate Tectonics
Atmospheric Gases
Bouyancy
EM Fields and Virtual Photons (?)
Parameterized Photons (?)
Scale of Earth and the Sun
Why Do People Laugh at Creationists?
Happy Newton Day
Atomic Number vs Oxidation States
Periodic Table and the Universe
Earthquake Storms
Crab Nebula Supernova and Pulsars
Earth's Place in the Cosmos
Happy Solstice
Universe Map
Various Notes (states of mind, tidal spins, molecular heat, potentials/gradients)
Flow Fields, Vorticity, Turbulence
Positive Psychology
Gravitation and Electromagnetism
Photon Interactions (?)
Carbon Forms
High pH Forming Diet
Salt Web
EM Frequency and the Index of Refraction
Quantum Uncertainty and Chaos Theory
Abiotic Oil Theory (!)
Life from Abiotic Oil (?)
Discussion on Hydrocarbons, Geology, and Origins of Life (?)
Life from Comets and Meteors (?)
Bonnie Bassler: The secret, social lives of bacteria
States of Mind
A Theory on Love and Seduction
Women Theory
We Are All Eye Candy to Each Other
Risky Behaviors
Alien with a Tobacco Message
Was Tunguska a Methane Explosion (?)
Dry Ice Bomb Craters on Mars (?)
Global Warming (?)
Hydrologic Cycle Analysis
Special Relativity
Space and Time
Collisions and Gravitational Interactions (!)
Aeons Before The Big Bang (Roger Penrose)
Why Heat Death of the Universe Probably is Incorrect
Infinite Universe Model (?)
On Zero Point Energy and Consciousness (?)
Fractal Dimensionality
Quantum Time Phases and 5d Shifts (?)
On Gravitation, Black Holes, and Space-Time
Boyd Bushman talks UFOs and Antigravity (?)
On Electromagnetic Space Weather (?)
On Fusion, Antimatter, and Micro-Black Holes in Stars (?)
Sci-Tech Links of Interest

Technology Posts:
Piano Note Sound Frequencies
Radio Waves
Hydraulic Press
Airplane Axis of Rotation
Fuel Energy Densities
Nuclear Energy
Chemical Batteries
Global Energy Consumption
Thermodynamics and Engines
Wastewater Treatment
Water Purification Methods
Air Show
Flying Car Tribute
History of Black Budget Air and Space Programs (!)
A Flying Saucer Overview
Buoyant Flying Saucer Design
Vortices and Victor Schauberger (?)
The Future
Second Life Eternity
Jets
Fusion Energy
Drilling Equipment
Measurement Instruments
Water Treatment Wastes Removal
The Singularity
Computer Brain Model
The Letter Code - A challenge for SETI
Another Challenge for Hawking
On History, Aliens, UFO's, and Classified Documents (!)
Photos and Links from 2011 International UFO Convention
UFO and Alien Drawings (?)
Did These Come From Aliens (?)
UFO Portal over Hessdalen Norway (?)
The 1984 Whiteman AFB Incident (?)
Historic Timeline of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo Programs (!)
Lunar Apollo Videos Footage (!)
Adam Carolla's Carcast
The DARPA Urban and Grand Challenges
The Ultimate Hybrid
Well Drawdown Tutorial
Rachel Botsman on Collaborative Consumption
Problems (Trash and Bank Loans)
Flight 77 - 9/11 Case Study (!)
A Modernized Proverb (production and waste)
Battery Comparisons
RLC Circuits
Quartz Crystal Oscillators
Vdc Circuit Resonance
Possible Method for Atomic Data Storage (?)

Philosophy:
The Philosophy Files
Our Technological Future
Free Chaos Will
Reality
Hawking Gives Good Advice
Modified Dale Carnegie Notes
The 48 Laws of Power
How to be more Successful
A New Definition of Greed
Making Money
A Few Business Wiseisms
Secular Terms To Live By
Change in Business-Politics-Technology
Mind Evolution
Consciousness and the Future (!)
An Error in Sagan's Philosophy
Anarchism
Something Patriotic
Libertarian Stance on Guns and Gun Control
The Secular Bible
Objectivist Freethought
My Philosophy
Cool Secular Symbols
How an Open Mind Works
A deeper look at conspiracies
A Continuum Of Beliefs
The Cycle of Existence (?)
A Concept of Self
Creative Energies
You Can Trust Science
It's Your Ship
Accurate Thinking (Napoleon Hill)
Feynman's Big Fear - Thought Control
Aldous Huxley Interviewed by Mike Wallace
Skepticism On Zietgiest (!)
The Common Wealth and The Hierarchy
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet
Good Business Audiobooks
About this Blog

Art and Games:
Pink Floyd - Money
Bohemian Rhapsody on the Oscilloscope
Fun with iTunes Visualizer
On Supply and Demand, Selling Out, and "Beating the Devil"
Sabotage the Underground Arbitrage
Sci-Minded Creativity
Quantum's Guide to Texas Hold Em
Pochess
Civilization 4 Tips
Model Train Swap Meet (HO and Lionel Trains)
Addicted to Success
Perfect Speed Runs
Personal Best Minesweeper Scores
WD-40 Universal Organic Solvent (?)
Manoi Go - Breakdancing Robot
The Game
Spy vs Spy
DaBomb
Venus Sub and Ship Trap
8 Bit Trip
A Tribute to Video Games
Mugens are Badass and Hilarious
Rampage Takedown
The Dilemna
Tool - Right in Two

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High pH Forming Diet

Timeline of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo NASA Programs

Here are my notes from Gene Kranz' book "Failure is Not an Option" about the Early History of NASA's Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo Space Programs (click on pictures to enlarge or right click and open in a new window for full resolution).





Note: Click the link if you'd like to view all the video footage from the Apollo Lunar Landings and EVA's on the surface of the Moon as well.

Human Evolution

Notes I took from Tom Lombardo's Lecture On the past and future evolution of human consciousness :-]

Physics and Philosophy Meetup Group - Presentation and Dialogue on Consciousness and the Future by Tom Lombardo, Ph.D.

Presentation and Dialogue on Consciousness and the Future by Tom Lombardo, Ph.D.



About the Presenter - Tom Lombardo, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Future Consciousness, and author of several books and numerous articles on consciousness, wisdom, psychological evolution, and the study of the future will discuss with the group his two new books. Drawing upon his recent articles “The Ecological Cosmology of Consciousness” and “Educating the Wise Cyborg” (published in one of his two new books Wisdom, Consciousness, and the Future) his talk highlights his ideas on the nature of consciousness and its interdependency with the physical ecology of the cosmos, the connection between mind and technology, and how time and evolution figure into the further development of human consciousness.” In this context, he also discusses Antonio Damasio’s new book on consciousness Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain. He also discusses some new topics in science fiction as well.”

Blogger's Note - The preceding video is an unedited rough draft version and it could be refined and edited so the audio is overlaid and synched with a cleaner video of the powerpoint presentation which would look much better, but for right now the raw audio has at least turned out decent enough to justify posting the presentation online unedited, imo, mainly for the sole intent and purpose of getting it online in a timely manner. If the video quality or the fact that you can't really see the presenter annoys you too much, then don't let it, you can actually listen to the video as one would an audio book or podcast instead and it still makes for a decent presentation even without the visuals.

Anyhow, the most important thing is that you'll probably learn and perhaps even will critique a few things from it, depending on how experienced you are in the ideas of Physics and Philosophy yourself that is. Ultimately, I'm hoping that you will appreciate and enjoy it as much as I have, it was really a good presentation after all, and there was a lot of time an effort that went into that night that deserves to be much appreciated. Thanks a lot for the preparing all of this Tom and thanks for the hospitality of letting such a large group gathering at your house like this Elaine :)
- James Falk

Websites:
Elaine Walker's Physics and Philosophy MeetUp Group
Tom Lombardo's "The Center for Future Consciousness"

Rymdreglage - 8 Bit Trip

I just love this :)

What If Tunguska Was A Methane Explosion?

Here is a hypothesis based on abiotic methane leaking out of the ground, I did some the figuring for this a while back:

Unless the methane were rapidly leaking out of the ground for an amount of time prior to ignition....that could cause methane-oxygen ratios in explosive proportions. But still would need the info on how much methane-oxygen at STP you would need for a 5 megaton explosion though.

By volume the ratio is 2(O2)-1(CH4)

1 megaton = 4.184x10^15 Joules

5-15% methane in air is considered explosive

Energy released by methane = 802 Kj/mol = 802x10^3 J/mol

20.92 |TJ| / 802 |Kj/mol| =2.608x10^10 mols of CH4

5.217x10^10 mols of O2

Oxygen in air is 20%, and assuming that 5-15% ratio displaces only the nitrogen.

2.608x10^11 mols of air molecules is involved.

If that is uniformly spread out, then assuming 41.4 mol/m^3 for dry air

You end up with an explosion requiring approximately 6.301x10^9 m^3 of air/fuel mixture at STP. That’s a cube of about 1.847 kilometers in all directions in order to give you 5 megatons of energy from this reaction.

Tunguska was an area of 2000 km^2 = 2x10^9 m^2



So the amount of methane/air mixture in such an explosion would have been about 3.15 meters high off of the ground (save for all the imprecision in my assumptions)....anyhow, that seems reasonable for the damage done.

(doesn’t it make sense that 1625 metric tons of methane gas needs to be combusted to yield 5 megatons energy equivalent of TNT?)

Source: Huge Tunguska Explosion Remains Mysterious 100 Years Later

...note, although it is fun to think about, like a gigantic barbecue grill being lit up, it probably was still most likely an asteroid event according to the sightings recorded in this Sibir newspaper article from July 2, 1908 from Wikipedia:

"On the 17th of June, around 9 a.m. in the morning, we observed an unusual natural occurrence. In the north Karelinski village [200 verst, or about 130 miles, north of Kirensk] the peasants saw to the north west, rather high above the horizon, some strangely bright (impossible to look at) bluish-white heavenly body, which for 10 minutes moved downwards. The body appeared as a "pipe", i.e. a cylinder. The sky was cloudless, only a small dark cloud was observed in the general direction of the bright body. It was hot and dry. As the body neared the ground (forest), the bright body seemed to smudge, and then turned into a giant billow of black smoke, and a loud knocking (not thunder) was heard, as if large stones were falling, or artillery was fired. All buildings shook. At the same time the cloud began emitting flames of uncertain shapes. All villagers were stricken with panic and took to the streets, women cried, thinking it was the end of the world."