Wednesday, April 27, 2022

UN chief met with Putin to bridge differences with Russia over its actions in Ukraine

 https://www.npr.org/2022/04/26/1094870350/un-chief-met-with-putin-to-bridge-differences-with-russia-over-its-actions-in-uk

At a certain point, both sides must meet with a mediator. Otherwise, the risk of things getting out of control become more possible.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/04/1116932

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/26/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/26/russia-ukraine-war-lavrov-warns-of-risk-of-nuclear-conflict


Ukraine war: Could Russia use tactical nuclear weapons? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60664169


"Any conflict with a nuclear power like Russia carries the risk that nuclear weapons could be used,..."  

"However, as long as NATO does not inter­vene directly in Ukraine and the Russian regime does not feel existentially threatened, both intentional and unintentional nuclear use remain extremely unlikely. Never­theless, Moscow’s nuclear threats still entail significant negative consequences." https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/russias-nuclear-threats-in-the-war-against-ukraine


https://news.stanford.edu/2022/04/20/u-s-must-can-prevent-russian-military-crossing-nuclear-threshold/

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2022/03/29/the-russia-ukraine-war-may-be-bad-news-for-nuclear-nonproliferation/


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=nuclear

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=war

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Russian takeover of Chernobyl was ‘very dangerous’: IAEA chief

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/26/russian-takeover-of-chernobyl-was-very-dangerous-iaea-chief

Things could have gotten much worse in the Chernobyl zone.

 https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220426-very-dangerous-chernobyl-marks-anniversary-amid-war

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/chernobyl-war-iaea-warning-1.6431398

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10755241/Chernobyl-radiation-levels-abnormal-Russian-troops-occupied-site-atomic-watchdog-warns.html

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/chernobyl-worker-recalls-600-hour-shift-under-russian-occupation-2922825

https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-war-russias-dangerous-actions-in-chernobyl/av-61600024

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/04/26/chernobyl-nuclear-anniversary-radioactivity-inspectors/

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-t-z/ukraine-russia-war-and-nuclear-energy.aspx

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/unprotected-russian-soldiers-disturbed-radioactive-dust-chernobyls-red-forest-2022-03-28/

https://time.com/6158274/chernobyl-russia-ukraine-nuclear-disaster/

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/chernobyl-accident.aspx

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/chernobyl-accident.aspx


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Chernobyl

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=nuclear+power

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=war

The Chernobyl Disaster

The Chernobyl_disaster was quite serious and its destruction zone of danger remains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Reactor_conditions_priming_the_accident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Radiation_levels

Radioactivity by Kraftwerkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EBTn_3DBYo , https://kraftwerk.com


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Chernobyl

Ways Elon Musk might change Twitter

 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61226282

Well, this is certainly a way that Elon+Musk can make sure that all of his authorized posts will remain.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376

https://www.theverge.com/23026874/elon-musk-twitter-buyout-news-updates

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519046094461702145?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-elon-musk-bought-twitter

Now that he has acquired Twitter he can take things to a new level.

Friday, April 22, 2022

Infinite Worlds: A Journey through Parallel Universes and the Multiverse

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO4uzgiRHkE

Whether it's one or many, it's a very ancient cosmos.


Multiverse: One Universe or Many? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUW7patpm9s

How Many Multiverses Are There? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jmNzlTd09E

Of course various simulations can be run on the+multiverse hypothesis, but so much of the data is speculative. Nevertheless, interesting clues might be revealed.


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=space


The Story of Mankind, VR, ETc.

The_Story_of_Mankind is a cautionary movie from 1957.

It was shown on TCM this April.

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/91525/the-story-of-mankind/#overview

A celestial court setting is the main focus of the movie. Key points in history are reviewed in something like a holographic theater format. Unfortunately, the movie doesn't reveal exactly how this interactive cosmic recording & projection of history is done. The story is clearly depicted from an anthropomorphic or humanoid perspective. There is no direct reference in the movie as to whether or not there are other inhabited worlds in this higher perspective.

A_Matter_of_Life_and_Death was released in 1946 and also deals with an otherworldly realm.

"On 2 May 1945, Squadron Leader Peter Carter, an RAF pilot, is flying a badly damaged and burning Lancaster bomber over the English Channel, after a mission over Germany. Carter is expecting to die, after ordering his crew to bail out, without revealing to them that his own parachute has been destroyed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Matter_of_Life_and_Death_(film)#Plot

Here_Comes_Mr._Jordan was released in 1941.

"On May 11, 1941, boxer and amateur pilot Joe Pendleton, affectionately known as "the Flying Pug", flies his small aircraft to his next fight in New York City, but crashes when a control cable severs. His soul is retrieved by 7013, an officious angel who assumed that Joe could not have survived. Joe's manager, Max "Pop" Corkle, has his body cremated. In the afterlife, the records show his death was a mistake; he was supposed to live for 50 more years. The angel's superior, Mr. Jordan, confirms this, but since there is no more body, Joe will have to take over a newly dead corpse. Jordan explains that a body is just something that is worn, like an overcoat; inside, Joe will still be himself." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_Mr._Jordan#Plot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_Can_Wait_(1978_film)#Plot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_to_Earth_(2001_film)#Plot

These fantasy stories imply that there is another reality on another dimensional plane of existence.

Full immersion VR can be used to bring various fables, myths & legends into 3D life. It might also reveal more clues about the nature of reality. (TNOR) People kill each other all the time in video games & movies. However, there could be serious problems if people try to kill each other in full+immersion VR environments.

"Parents in a futuristic society worry about their children's mental health when their new virtual reality nursery, which can produce any environment the children imagine, continually projects an African veldt, populated by lions feasting on carcasses. A child psychologist suggests that the automated house is not good for the children's development, nor the parents', and insists they disable the automation and take a vacation to become more self-sufficient.

Ray_Bradbury was already exploring the VR concept in the very early 1950s. https://raybradbury.com

"The children are not pleased with this decision but later coolly agree to it. The children trap their parents in the nursery, where they become prey to the lions. They later have lunch on the veldt with the child psychologist. They then see the lions feasting but do not recognize what has happened." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man#The_Veldt (1951)

VR Mind Control Tech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMXfyZc_Gvg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodeck , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis

If this world is part of something like a cosmic simulation, is it run by humans or some other kind of life or consciousness?

Alien Life: Will We Know It When We See It? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNtR5da5LIE

Of course given the perceived size of the universe, life might have evolved or have been started on various other worlds.

Why We May Be Surrounded by Older Alien Civilizations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrrNu_m_9K4

A Journey Beyond the Boundaries of the Universe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMA2wVYfdzc Kosmo

How Big Is The Universe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn3euL8Tbfw Cool Worlds

How Many Multiverses Are There? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jmNzlTd09E


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+multiverse

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

These Rocks Did Something NASA Scientists Weren't Expecting

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzWx2vDmUxI , https://www.youtube.com/c/astrumspace/videos

This is such a fascinating YouTube series.

How Wheels May Soon Become Obsolete For Mars Exploration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_sR94Yuf68


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=space

Nicolas Cage Reveals The Reason He Turned Down Lord Of The Rings And The Matrix

 https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nicolas-cage-reveals-the-very-sweet-reason-he-turned-down-lord-of-the-rings-and-the-matrix/1100-6502637

The LOTR might have worked out well for Nicolas Cage, but he had other priorities.

https://people.com/movies/nicolas-cage-turned-down-lord-of-the-rings-em-and-matrix-to-put-family-first-exclusive

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/very-rare-1300-version-of-lord-of-the-rings-announced-with-new-artwork-and-more/1100-6502641/

https://www.polygon.com/23032806/everything-to-know-lord-of-the-rings-series

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/new-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-characters-revealed/1100-6502603/

https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Lord+of+the+Rings

Sherlock Holmes vs. Batman: Who Is The World's Greatest Detective?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D8QWlDd8-o , https://www.youtube.com/user/WatchMojo/videos

The RD Jr. version of Sherlock+Holmes can fight just as well as The Batman, but they are both intense detectives, at heart.

Batman vs. Sherlock Holmes. Epic Rap Battles of History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17CLlZuiBkQ , https://www.youtube.com/EpicRapBattles/videos

The underwater “eye” that is unlocking ocean secrets

 https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2022/4/20/23020129/edith-widder-eye-in-the-sea-camera-giant-squid

The underwater world is like experiencing another world on the same planet.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/04/23/james-cameron-whale-narwhal-amanpour-sot-vpx.cnn

https://www.bananaip.com/ip-news-center/james-cameron-revolution-underwater-cinematography/

Abyss's Underwater Aliens - Explored - Underrated James Cameron Spectacle - A Technological Marvel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfQqGCEX4Bg

Sci-Fi Short Film: "Oceanus" by DUST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6_9YnTDR-s

Netflix stock plunges 37% on shocking subscriber loss

 https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/20/netflix-plunges-trading-subscriber-loss.html

After a while when too much crap is pushed as entertainment, it gets flushed.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/apr/20/why-is-netflix-losing-so-many-subscribers-and-what-can-it-do-about-it

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/netflixs-best-days-are-behind-it-warns-analyst-who-predicted-the-stocks-crash-153854216.html

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/4/20/no-chill-netflix-shares-drop-39-after-massive-subscriber-loss

https://www.vox.com/recode/23032705/netflix-subscriber-loss-streaming-wars

Unless Nf can start to produce more good all-around entertainment, people will continue to watch elsewhere.

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

The Batman sets box office record

 https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a39762051/the-batman-box-office-record-2022

That's what happens whenever a grate movie is produced.

https://www.ign.com/articles/the-batman-viewers-noticed-a-wild-detail-involving-paul-danos-riddler

The Batman always has to have a serious persona, because he constantly has to go up against various villains.

https://www.themarysue.com/the-batman-joker-scene-explained-matt-reeves

https://www.nme.com/news/film/matt-reeves-confirms-the-batman-easter-egg-about-the-riddler-3206892

Top 10 Most Rewatchable Scenes in The Batman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDWglhlalp8


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Batman

Soylent Green (1973)

 Soylent_Green was quite a cautionary movie about a rough & lean future when it was released.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_jGOKYHxaQ

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/soylent-green-1973

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green#Plot

Soylent Green Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyizAHAbPII

Sci-Fi Classic Review: SOYLENT GREEN  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0bI-ZCEIzk

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/soylent_green

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/SoylentGreen

https://www.tcm.com/video/78244/soylent-green-original-trailer , https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2061/soylent-green/#overview

https://mashable.com/article/2022-soylent-green

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/soylent-green-predicted-2022-meat-substitutes/

Monday, April 18, 2022

The Batman intersection

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrJTClYqPOs , https://www.youtube.com/c/Vudu/videos

This serious and intense movie has really struck a chord with many fans.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-batman-movie-review-2022

Once people have seen this version of The+Batman, they might want to refresh and compare with the other versions of Batman.

Every Sequel Hint In The Batman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3SHEQu9d-4 , https://www.youtube.com/user/mrsundaymovies/videos

https://www.fandom.com/articles/batman-portrait-psychopath

Top 20 Greatest Batman Villains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F7xO-lXPe0 , https://www.youtube.com/user/WatchMojo/videos

Every Batman Movie Villain Analyzed By a Psychologist | WIRED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT_d97MayLg

Psychiatrist Breaks Down Psychopaths From Movies & TV, Part 2 | GQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtFybK9n1EM and Part 1 

Sociopath vs Psychopath - What's The Difference? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAjAMYaiWnI , https://www.youtube.com/c/TheInfographicsShowOFFICIAL/videos

5 Signs Someone Is Secretly A Sociopath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gETtG1IHAyU , https://www.youtube.com/c/Charismaoncommand/videos

13 Clear Traits of a Psychopath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW8mpIcwG1U , https://www.youtube.com/c/PsychologyElement/videos

Strange answers to the psychopath test | Jon Ronson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYemnKEKx0c , https://www.youtube.com/c/TED/videos


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Batman

The VR - AR intersection

"The Veldt" is a science fiction short story by American author Ray Bradbury. Originally appearing as "The World the Children Made" in the September 23, 1950 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, it was republished under its current name in the 1951 anthology The Illustrated Man.

In the story, a mother and father struggle with their technologically advanced home taking over their role as parents, and their children becoming uncooperative as a result of their lack of discipline." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Veldt_(short_story)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man#The_Veldt


This is such very advanced Sci-Fi concept writing for 1950. It was so far ahead of its time, many people still don't realize.

Most people in 1950 would have no concept of a smart-home with a 3D animated printed matter VR room. An Augmented Reality AI heuristic nursery that evolves into a children's play room.

https://literariness.org/2022/04/18/analysis-of-ray-bradburys-the-veldt

https://studyboss.com/essays/symbolism-in-the-veldt-by-ray-bradbury-essay.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man_(1969_film) , https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064473

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0683235 (1989)

The Veldt depicted in The_Illustrated_Man movie was still so advanced that it would be another 3 decades until The_Matrix , The_Thirteenth_Floor , Existenz and Harsh_Realm in 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality_in_fiction

Project Gutenberg's The Chamber of Life, by Green Peyton Wertenbaker https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25862/25862-h/25862-h.htm (1929) https://www.amazon.com/Chamber-Life-Green-Peyton-Wertenbaker/dp/935484796X  

"As we turned and went on up the Drive, he told me more about his invention.

"I call it the Chamber of Life," he said. "It's a fantastic name, but it designates precisely what my instrument is.

"You see, it's like living another life to experience an hour or two in the Chamber. You cannot possibly realize yet just what it's like. I have created a means of reproducing all the sensations that a man would have in actual living; all the sounds, the odors, the little feelings that are half-realized in daily life—everything. The Chamber takes possession of you and lives for you. You forget your name, your very existence in this world, and you are taken bodily into a fictitious land. It is like actually living the books you would read today, or the motion pictures and plays you would watch and hear.

"It is as real as life, but it moves swiftly as a dream. You seem to pass through certain things slowly and completely, in the tempo of life. Then, when the transitional moment comes, between the scenes, your sensations pass with unbelievable rapidity. The Chamber has possession of your mind. It tells you that you are doing such and such a thing, it gives you all the feeling of doing that thing, and you actually believe you are doing it. And when it snatches you away from one day and takes you into the next, it has only to make you feel that a day has passed, and it is as though you had lived through that day. You could live a lifetime in this way, in the Chamber, without spending actually more than a few hours." https://www.hotfreebooks.com/book/The-Chamber-of-Life-Green-Peyton-Wertenbaker.html


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Out_of_Joint (1959)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3 (1964)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_a_Wire (1973)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_characters#Deep_Thought , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Thought_(chess_computer)

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 7 Review – Monsters

 https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-trek-picard-season-2-episode-7-review-monsters

Many fans think that Season 2 of Picard is significantly better than Season 1.

https://www.escapistmagazine.com/star-trek-picard-season-2-episode-7-review-monsters

https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-picard-season-2-episode-7-recap-monsters-1848790642

https://comicbook.com/startrek/news/star-trek-james-callis-picard-father-maurice-season-2-episode-7-spoilers

https://comicbook.com/startrek/news/star-trek-official-timeline

It's the old monsters from the Id thing. https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Monster_from_the_Id


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Picard

The Schrödinger Equation, Chaos Theory and the Butterfly Effect...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WPA1L9uJqo , https://www.youtube.com/c/PhysicsExplainedVideos/videos

The Schrodinger_equation was quite a substantial breakthrough in physics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrodinger_equation#Definition

https://www.butterflyeffect.ca/Close/Pages/SchrodingersEquation.html

https://www.butterflyeffect.ca/Close/Pages/Heisenberg.html

https://www.quora.com/Can-electron-probability-wave-cause-a-butterfly-effect-causing-a-random-uncontrolled-Universe

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chaos/

Chaos and Butterfly Effect - Sixty Symbols https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WepOorvo2I4

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-quantum-butterfly-noneffect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sound_of_Thunder#Influence

The Butterfly_Effect_in_quantum_mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w40fxsyraE , https://www.youtube.com/c/ApertureScience/videos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect_in_popular_culture

https://upload.wikimedia.org/A_Sound_of_Thunder_poster.jpg
Of course the 2005 movie, A_Sound_of_Thunder was based on a great story, but unfortunately, there were various problems during production and filming. 

The_Butterfly_Effect is a 2004 Sci-Fi movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect_in_popular_culture#Films

The Butterfly Effect...Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2xFJUSLEv8 One of the most fascinating on the subject from Top5s/videos.

One earth, but in how many time lines? A universe or a multiverse cosmos? 

How Many Multiverses Are There? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jmNzlTd09E , https://www.youtube.com/c/HistoryoftheUniverse/videos

To ponder the scale of space & time is mind-boggling, yet enthralling.


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Butterfly+Effect

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+multiverse


Elon Musk: "DELETE Your Social Media NOW!" - Here's Why

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ponj6p2-iLQ Smart Sense

Virtual Movie and TV Sets vs. Green Screen

 Why 'The Mandalorian' Uses Virtual Sets Over Green Screen | Movies Insider https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufp8weYYDE8

The Virtual Production of The Mandalorian Season Two https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gX4N5rDYeQ , https://www.youtube.com/c/ILMVFX/videos

How '1917' Was Filmed To Look Like One Shot | Movies Insider https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMBnvz-dEXw

You could even go into a 1912 setting and pull up so much data on the largest passenger ship of the day.

Star Trek: Discovery - The Real Life Holodeck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDGmLE6IiGQ

Star Trek: 10 Best Holodeck Episodes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AXcBGGQyHY

https://www.youtube.com/c/AxiomHolographics/videos

What's next?

https://theconversation.com/star-treks-holodeck-from-science-fiction-to-a-new-reality-74839


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Full+Immersion+VR


Sinking of the Titanic

Was the Sinking_of_the_Titanic something that could have been prevented? Or, was it all prerecorded?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Titanic#14_April_1912

If this world is part of an interactive cosmic recording of space and time, then perhaps some writers are able to occasionally and unknowingly, tap into a flickr of some data from a future point in time. Could that have been the case with, The_Wreck_of_the_Titan:_Or,_Futility in 1898? 

https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/futility-or-wreck-of-titan

https://titanic.fandom.com/wiki/Futility,_or_the_Wreck_of_the_Titan

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/785360.Futility_or_the_Wreck_of_the_Titan

It's not that a writer or visionary will always sense or see all the details, sometimes it might just be a few perceived points, or less.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/the-wreck-of-the-titan

The_Time_Tunnel TV series depicted the_possibility_of_time_travelhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Tunnel#Episodes

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Holosuite

https://headhuntersholosuite.fandom.com/wiki/Time_travel

https://www.iann.net/timetunnel/index.htm

https://headhuntersholosuite.fandom.com/wiki/Time_Tunnel:_Rendezvous_with_Yesterday

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060036/mediaviewer/rm413040641

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org


Visual technology has finally reached a point where anything from history or even comic book characters, can be depicted in a virtual 3D setting.

https://theconversation.com/star-treks-holodeck-from-science-fiction-to-a-new-reality-74839

How Avengers: Endgame's Visual Effects Were Made | WIRED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHCp62jC84

Even simulated or VR Time Travel is possible.

Thursday, April 07, 2022

Large Tesla shareholder Ron Baron reacts to Elon Musk joining Twitter’s board

 https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/07/elon-musks-twitter-stake-is-meaningless-says-tesla-bull-ron-baron-.html

Elon+Musk could have easily just set up his own digital communications platform.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/06/musk-twitter-sec

However, it seems that he wants to try to improve Twitter first.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507777913042571267

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507777261654605828

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507259709224632344

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507041396242407424


https://twitter.com/elonmusk , https://twitter.com/SpaceX

EM always has several options. 


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Elon+Musk

Do Some Theories That Prove Time Travel Exists?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzPIYHWTplk

The type of time+travel depicted in books, movies and TV productions remains as Sci-Fi entertainment. However, the curiosity of time travel need not be limited to only science or just fiction.

The_Time_Machine and Beyond_the_Time_Barrier were both released in 1960. Even though the special effects from 1960 might be quite limited when compared to the special effects used in the 2020s, these time travel movies still provide an entertaining visual story.

https://screenrant.com/star-trek-time-travel-tos-tng-ds9-discovery-movies

Could This Mysterious Computer Prove Time Travel Exists? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEDgG5MKndo , https://www.youtube.com/c/Nostalgianerd/videos

The Future of Time Travel, Aliens & The Universe - Dr. Michio Kaku https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXtpibqvFfE , https://www.youtube.com/c/VALUETAINMENT/videos

If the universe is an immense data-field of energy, matter, spacetime and information, then in effect, it could be like a cosmic library of sorts. If two way time travel is ever proven to be possible, then the universe would be like an interactive projection and recording. The time travelers depicted in science-fiction are essentially accessing certain points in the time and space recording.

A mind-expanding tour of the cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Robert Krulwich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyAK3QBnMGQ , https://www.youtube.com/92Y/videos

Michio Kaku: The Universe in a Nutshell (Full Presentation) | Big Think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NbBjNiw4tk  

Multiverse: One Universe or Many? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUW7patpm9s , http://www.worldsciencefestival.com

A Thin Sheet of Reality: The Universe as a Hologram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnETCBOlzJs

Is The Universe as a Hologram? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNgIl-qIklU

How Many Multiverses Are There? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jmNzlTd09E

Leonard Susskind - Must the Universe Contain Consciousness? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z27k9_NP4FU


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Time+Travel (TT)

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=multiverse

Wednesday, April 06, 2022

The Worlds Richest People

 https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-61013222

Of course The_World's_Billionaires list keeps getting longer.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2022/04/05/the-worlds-richest-person-2022/?sh=1913a077370f

https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/top-10-richest-people-in-the-world/articleshow/74415117.cms

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/04/06/forbes-billionaires-2022-elon-musk-jeff-bezos/9481302002

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/012715/5-richest-people-world.asp

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/richest-people-in-the-world-2022

Elon+Musk really is at the top of his game now, simulation or not.

Ray Bradbury and Ray Harryhausen

Ray_Bradbury and Ray_Harryhausen were both born in 1920 and lived into their early 90s. They got to see how CGI and VR were gradually progressing.

Back in the day, while Ray_Harryhausen was creating special effects for movies, Ray_Bradbury was thinking up various ideas and concepts to write about. At some point out of the many stories, Ray_Bradbury started to visualize what the future of motion pictures would be like. Something far beyond 3D color and sound.

The electronic computer was in its infancy at the start of the 1950s. RB was able to envision a time when a powerful home computer system could generate or project a programmed reality in a special 3D entertainment room. RB was essentially writing about something like the Holodeck in STTNG. 


"The World the Children Made" in the September 23, 1950 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, it was republished under its current name in the 1951 anthology The Illustrated Man." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Veldt_(short_story)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality#Children_in_virtual_reality

The Veldt remains as an enduring cautionary tale about some children that might use their holographic nursery suite or playroom as a deathtrap for their parents. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_in_fiction#Different_forms_of_reality


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=VR

Monday, April 04, 2022

FOO FIGHTERS Won Three Rock GRAMMYs

https://metalinjection.net/news/foo-fighters-won-three-rock-grammys-last-night-taylor-hawkins-memorialized

The loss of any key member in a band is a very tough deal. https://www.foofighters.com 

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60977871

Things will never be the same for the Foo_Fighters.

https://pitchfork.com/news/foo-fighters-and-taylor-hawkins-win-best-rock-awards-at-2022-grammys

https://people.com/music/grammys-2022-foo-fighters-win-three-awards

https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/grammys-2022-foo-fighters-win-3-awards-after-taylor-hawkins-death/

https://loudwire.com/foo-fighters-win-best-rock-song-grammy-at-2022-awards

https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/foo-fighters-win-three-grammy-awards-beating-out-another-seattle-rock-hero

https://www.grammy.com/artists/foo-fighters/14694 , https://www.instagram.com/foofighters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Fighters#Echoes,_Silence,_Patience_&_Grace_(2007-2009)

So tragically, FF lost their drummer as Led_Zeppelin had several decades earlier.










From Doctor Parnassus to Doctor Strange

Andrew_Garfield got to be in The_Imaginarium_of_Doctor_Parnassus and Spider-Man:_No_Way_Home.

After the death of Heath_LedgerThe_Imaginarium_of_Doctor_Parnassus would have four actors portraying the character of Tony Shepard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_No_Way_Home#Plot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor Stephen_Strange_(Marvel_Cinematic_Universe)#Alternate_versions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Strange_in_the_Multiverse_of_Madness


Friday, April 01, 2022

Picard's Borg Queen twist confirms popular season-2 fan theory

 https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a39608148/picard-borg-queen-agnes-season-2 

The second season of Picard has become very popular, indeed.

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/wondercon-star-trek-picards-borg-queen-inspired-by-seven-of-nine


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Borg+Queen

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Picard

Jonathan Frakes On Directing A Mini-TNG Reunion On ‘Picard’ And Prepping For ‘Strange New Worlds’

 https://trekmovie.com/2022/04/01/interview-jonathan-frakes-on-directing-a-mini-tng-reunion-on-picard-and-prepping-for-strange-new-worlds

Star_Trek:_Picard keeps on getting better in season 2.

https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a39608148/picard-borg-queen-agnes-season-2

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/picard-season-2-episode-5-biggest-star-trek-easter-eggs

https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-picard-easter-egg-q-phone-number-1848737355

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/picard-director-jonathan-frakes-star-trek-first-contact-callbacks-1235123087

https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/jonathan-frakes-star-trek-picard-interview

https://trekmovie.com/2022/03/31/review-star-trek-picard-mixes-things-up-in-fly-me-to-the-moon/

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_Picard

https://www.youtube.com/c/UniversoStarTrek/videos


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Star+Trek

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Picard

The Donnie Darko Rabbit Portal

There really is a fascinating connection between Donnie+Darko and Source_Code. Both stories/movies are about the protagonist being in alternate realities.

DONNIE DARKO Trailer (2001) | Jake Gyllenhaal, Sci-Fi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Wybiuvq3g , https://www.youtube.com/c/joblo/videos

DONNIE DARKO: Is It Deep or Dumb? – Wisecrack Edition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xksMpeMHbTE

Donnie Darko Explained: The Ending & What It Meant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZrPYryNhWs The Take

Source Code (2011) Official Trailer - Jake Gyllenhaal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnJegNyAb1w

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/source_code , https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/source-code-2011

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/SourceCode

https://www.indiewire.com/2011/04/decoding-source-code-whats-your-interpretation-of-the-ending-226915

Both movies are a variation on the time travel (TT) theme.


How Many Multiverses Are There? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jmNzlTd09E

Is Reality a Controlled Hallucination? - with Anil Seth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXcH26M7PQM

The Believing Brain: Evolution, Neuroscience, and the Spiritual Instinct https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0_-7FmrDq8

The Reality of Reality: A Tale of Five Senses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1jn86eUX0E

Donald Hoffman Proves That We Live in a Simulation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAfjsktMXu8

Do we see reality as it is? | Donald Hoffman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYp5XuGYqqY


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Donnie+Darko

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Source+Code

From the Amusement Park to the Amusement Park Planet

The Amusement_Park concept has a long history.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusement_park#Origins

If there could eventually be hotels in space and potentially on other worlds, then why not amusement parks as well? If there are other high-tech civilizations that have been around for a very long time, what might their amusement parks be like? A very advanced civilization might even create some amusement park size worlds. That's what a classic Star Trek episode is about. The landing party is lead down the rabbit hole of a Mixed_reality world.

In Shore_Leave_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series), a landing party doesn't realize that they are on an amusement park planet.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Shore_Leave_(episode)

The Shore_Leave_Planet is a little like Forbidden_Planet, but with a lot more safety features so that it doesn't become, a planet of doom. Indeed, a planet run by a quantum computer-mediated_reality could take Augmented_RealityVirtual_Reality, robotics and printed matter into a simulated or hyper-reality world. However, that still remains as just another intriguing science fiction concept.