News & popular culture & observing various ideas & Sci-Fi concepts that become a technological reality. What is reality in general? Some say that it's all part of a cosmic simulation.
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Monday, February 20, 2023
Magnitude 6.3 aftershock strikes southern Turkey...,2 weeks after massive quake killed thousands
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/20/middleeast/turkey-quake-aftershock-intl/index.html
More death and destruction in the danger zone.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/20/turkey-new-6-point-4-magnitude-earthquake-hatay
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64711228
https://nypost.com/2023/02/20/turkey-and-syria-hit-by-new-6-4-magnitude-earthquake/
https://earthquaketrack.com/quakes/2023-02-20-17-04-29-utc-6-3-16
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/turkey.html
Before and after drone footage shows extent of devastation in quakes-hit Turkey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJDjEEvxi0E , https://www.youtube.com/@guardiannews/videos
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=earthquakes
Sunday, February 19, 2023
The Space Cannon
This Gun Could Reach Space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4EMf_MTXVc
https://interestingengineering.com/science/jules-vernes-space-gun
The Space_gun started out as just another science fiction concept.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/space-cannon-hypersonic-speeds
https://newatlas.com/space/greenlaunch-space-cannon-gas-launch/
Friday, February 17, 2023
The New AI-Powered Bing Is Threatening Users
https://time.com/6256529/bing-openai-chatgpt-danger-alignment
ChatGPT is going places and some of it gets quite bizarre.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/the-6-biggest-problems-with-chatgpt-right-now/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2023/02/14/bing-chatgpt-meltdown/11258967002/
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-use-openai-chatgpt-text-generation-chatbot/
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/why-were-all-obsessed-with-the-mind-blowing-chatgpt-ai-chatbot/
Wednesday, February 08, 2023
Monday, February 06, 2023
Buffalo, New York, area is hit with the strongest earthquake in 40 years
Buffalo already has tough winters, this earthquake could have been so much worse.
https://abc7ny.com/buffalo-earthquake-new-york-western-magnitude/12776239/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/38-magnitude-earthquake-hits-upstate-new-york/story?id=96917809
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/nyregion/buffalo-seneca-earthquake.html
https://earthquaketrack.com/us-ny-buffalo/recent
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/earthquake-1.6738153
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=earthquakes
Huge quake toppled buildings in Turkey and Syria
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64533851
All one can do is try to be prepared, because earthquakes just happen without much warning.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/06/turkey-earthquake-2023-gaziantep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Turkey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Syria
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=earthquakes
Wednesday, February 01, 2023
Devil's Pass (2013)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_Pass
Of course various horror movies can tap into a mixture of themes and tropes.