Casey Handmer

You can now enjoy a colored relief map render of this dataset streamed through Google Earth. Download the .kml file (drive.google.com/file/d/1bS1R9M…) and open it in your Google Earth Pro client. Enjoy!

3 for 3 I am the terraforming master. But for how much longer?

My 7 yo left this code for me. What does it say?

We all have LLM psychosis.

@is_OwenLewis @aaronburnett No warranty implied about future shorelines. Buyers expected to perform own diligence.

@is_OwenLewis @SciFiArchives Looks like Frankfurt.

@SciFiArchives Looks like desiccation cracks.

"Urban Development" by Christophe Vorlet

i’ve finally found the true delineator between real and fake jobs: do you wear safety glasses at any point throughout the day?

I'm going to build 1000 ships and show up at the beaches of Normandy with 10 million ACs powered by rooftop solar. Make France Cool Again!

@is_OwenLewis @JoelSercel LEO is 0.1% closer and 1000x more expensive than Earth surface, so no.

@CJHandmer @JoelSercel Is it easier to beam power from Earth orbit? I would have assumed it's easier to put some satellites around the Moon.

Need 2800 m to never be shaded.

From Blackstone, 1765, Commentaries on the Laws of England

@is_OwenLewis @JoelSercel Beam power up from Earth.

@CJHandmer @JoelSercel Seems like orbital solar panels beaming down to collectors on the surface would be easier. Or, just build some nuclear.

@MaxFagin @spades_cmd You get J2 from Earth tidal forcing too, and there are some pretty spicy mascons.

@spades_cmd @CJHandmer "Too spherical" meaning "not ellipsoidal enough". Earth has a nice low-altitude circular polar SSO because Earth has a big J2 / equatorial bulge of ~10E-3. The moon spins so slowly, its J2 is ~5× smaller, so low-altitude circular polar SSO isn't really possible.

@JoelSercel 3% darkness is still 24 hours, which is a long time to bridge.

@CJHandmer Yes, but at about 1,000 m there are lots of places that are more like 97% illuminated with very short eclipse periods.

@mtracey "smart for a mass shooter" is not smart.

Just read the Montreal mass shooter's entire 104 page manifesto. I regret to inform you that it's actually pretty interesting. Ignore any simpleton who tries to reduce his ideology to simple "left" or "right" -- or even "incel." His main ideological belief is opposing "hypergamy," which he blames for creating a social system where most men, he claims, are heinously deprived of female romantic connection. He therefore opposes capitalism, which he views as a primary enabler of hypergamy. He praises (what he calls) communist societies such as China, North Korea, and the Soviet Union, in contrast with the "West," because he claims communist societies are superior at engendering communal structures that facilitate monogamy, wherein the average man has better access to stable female partners. He does recommend reading the works of Marx, Stalin, Robespierre, and other Left-wing revolutionaries. He also attacks conservatives for "swindling" average men by getting them needlessly focused on supporting conservative politicians, who they are falsely led to believe will support their class interests. And he opposes Christianity. However, he also inveighs against "mass immigration," cultural degeneracy, leftists, liberals, Trans Stuff, and so on. It appears he may have targeted his mass shooting attack at the headquarters and/or CEO of a porn company (PornHub?) in Montreal. Indeed, porn companies are one of the targets he recommends his followers planning attacks against, because he regards pornography as one of the vilest contributors to male suffering and larger cultural degeneracy. He gives advice on how to cultivate good intellectual habits (reading lots of books, giving up video games, moderate physical conditioning, firearms training) so as to best enact revolutionary violence. Here are the ideological movements he recommends followers of his movement infiltrate, if they are not inclined toward violence, and prefer to overthrow the "hypergamy state" through legal or political methods: conservative socialism, Duginism, communism, Islamic theocracy. So those are the ideological tendencies he would regard as most compatible with his own -- particularly, I would say, "conservative socialism." He attacks both Left and Right (not uncommon with Higher IQ mass shooters) and encourages assassinating both Left and Right-wing political figures. This guy was not some mentally ill crank like some other mass shooters, nor was he one of the guys who just copy-and-pastes a pre-existing internet brain manifesto -- see the guys who did the San Diego mass shooting a few weeks ago. He is reasonably high-intelligence and well-read. "Incel"? Sure, I guess, but I've personally never seen an "incel" manifesto that is so well-versed in political economy, history, biology, literature, and even meticulously cites peer-reviewed studies. This was a smart guy who knew exactly what he was doing, and planned it long in advance -- although it appears he wasn't successful in assassinating the PornHub CEO. He's substantively off on a lot of the gender stuff obviously, but he clearly spent a lot of time systematically thinking about it, and putting together what has got to be the most well-written mass shooter manifesto I've read in a long time.

If your WFH desk setup doesn't cost more than a used Honda Civic, you aren't serious about your pipeline. My ergonomic chair is built from the salvaged suspension of a 2019 Tesla Model S. My primary monitor is a converted IMAX screen I bought from a bankrupt theater in Oakland. When I drag a cell in Google Sheets, I physically have to rotate my entire torso. I burn 400 active calories a day just searching for the Slack icon. Stop complaining about back pain and optimize your environment.

@Robotbeat Heterochronic parabiosis is a bit of a surprise.

@CJHandmer It really does make me wonder, tho… if cloned tissue transplants can help restore vitality at a greater rate than the surgeries negatively impact vitality, provided they’re done at an age early enough that the surgeries can be recovered from.

@Robotbeat Gompertz Law exponentially suppresses old age.

Tomorrow I’ll be joined by @CJHandmer for a conversation on antimatter propulsion and production: how it works, how it could work, and why it matters. We will go live on Spaces at 1:30 p.m. PT, so make sure to turn post notifications on so you don’t miss it!

Mars Pathfinder is almost on ocean front! Chryse is sailing school nightmare mode. Huygens crater has a second section.

@Robotbeat There's almost no spread in basal metabolic rate. As Ozempic has shown. Aging curve is just P(death) increases 9% per year. That makes a very hard wall.

@CJHandmer Like, there is a huge spread in human body sizes, in human basal metabolic rate… why such a sharp aging curve?

@Robotbeat I have a blog on this.

@CJHandmer Why is Beta so high, though? Seems weird that the survival curve is so rectangular. You’d really think with humans being as diverse as they are, there’d be more spread. Like, even if it’s just the Hayflick limit. That it’s so sharp makes me think there’s a partial cure out there.