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Ashoka 9 - November 4, 2016 - August 24, 2016




Yogically, what happens to our consciousness when we read, watch and understand Yonatan's post here? (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga & http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Consciousness) ... and how would this work in a realistic virtual earth - re a Harbin warm pool in Google Street View, for example (and at the neuronal and atomic levels)?
Today, a simple illustration of physics. You might wonder why so much liquid splashes backwards; you can see what's happening most clearly with the water bottle (second from the bottom). The bullet strikes the liquid and starts transferring energy to it. (That energy transfer is why a bullet damages things) This, in turn, pushes a wave forward, moving faster than the bullet until it strikes the front wall and begins to break it. That breakage will be amplified by the bullet's impact a moment later, but before that, the wave has started to bounce back -- until shortly afterwards, it strikes the back wall, already damaged by the bullet hole, and blows it open.

All of this works because the bullet is travelling slower than the speed of sound in the liquid. (The speed of sound in liquid is much higher than it is in air) If the bullet were travelling much faster, around 3,400mph, then you would see a different reaction: the bullet would strike the front wall before the wave did, and by the time the wave hit it there would be much less for it to bounce against. Almost all of the splatter would fly forward, in that case.

If the bullet were travelling faster still, at around 11,000mph, it would be going faster than the speed of sound in glass, and things would change even more: the bullet would make it out of the glass before the shock waves from the impact had a chance to spread, and it would punch a fairly clean hole through it rather than shattering it. Of course, the impact of the water wave (if it were a filled bottle target) would then shatter the glass anyway.

I know this thanks to Prof. Bob Laughlin, a slightly mad physicist (and Nobel laureate) for whom I TA'd for many years. He asked a version of this question on the qualifying exam for the PhD, asking students to design a new "Star Wars"-type defense system called Brilliant Potroast. The idea (an improvement, no doubt, over the real "brilliant pebbles" design) was that we would attach rocket engines to a bunch of pot roasts, put them in orbit, and then fire them at incoming ICBM's; students were tasked with doing all the calculations for this, from calculating fuel needs to describing what would happen when a pot roast struck a nuclear missile.

The correct answer turned out to depend on the angle and position of impact, because (given orbital speeds and so on) the relative speed of the pot roast and the missile could fall anywhere above or below the speeds of sound in pot roast, structural Aluminum, and Plutonium. In almost all the cases, though, the effect would look sort of like a "water balloon:" the pot roast would punch a hole almost straight through the missile, and splatter outwards as it flew like a water balloon hitting, well, an ICBM.

Hopefully, this would damage critical components of the missile, and/or make it aerodynamically unstable once it reentered the atmosphere. Alternatively, you could design the flying meatsacks to deliberately hit the missile at an angle so that it would always be below the speed of sound in structural metals, and cause much more shattering along the length of the missile.

As a footnote: When Prof. Laughlin won the Nobel, the department held a party for him. A bunch of students got together and got him a very large pot roast as a gift.

h/t +Steven Flaeck and +İsmet D. İstanbul for the wonderful image.
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Beach yoga again here ... hair in tidewater pose (in Eka Pada Urdhva Dhanurasana) and with neck rotation? Is she on sand-point too?
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How could the coaches herein also facilitate great Yoga (and re A & V)? ... Great - Stanford online medicine ... https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=puIn5OvarbY... To the online teaching hospital at WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hospital ... and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Medicine ... and ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Data ... at World University and School, with Medical Schools - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - planned in all ~204 countries main and official languages ...
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World University seeks to Wikify Yoga - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga - and MIT http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_-_MIT - too, and offer CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC centric free Uni degrees+ ....
“I was lucky enough to discover MIT and my passion for engineering through MITES. I want to show students how great it is here and that yes, you can truly find paradise.”

#students #engineering #engineers #womeninSTEM #MIT
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Outamba Kilimi Park, Sierra Leone: Very first "Naked Harbin Ethnography" Releasing Party/Reading by meditation pool at Sierra Hot Springs ~http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~Su 10/9 9am, Sierra valley ~5000 ft @ Sierra Hot Springs near airstrip~With Harbin Hot Springs 2 Anthro field sites~MIT Media Lab/SocSci grad students?, Greetings from near the Meditation pool at Sierra Hot Springs where I just had a lovely soak, and silently read from my Harbin book, (since it's a quiet place and there were a fair number of people naked in a pretty little pool). HARBIN Book is releasing into the world from a meditative warm water space ~~~ :) ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/10/outamba-kilimi-park-sierra-leone-very.html ...
Outamba Kilimi Park, Sierra Leone: Very first "Naked Harbin Ethnography" Releasing Party/Reading by meditation pool at Sierra Hot Springs ~http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~Su 10/9 9am, Sierra valley ~5000 ft @ Sierra Hot Springs near airstrip~With Harbin Hot Springs 2 Anthro field sites~MIT Media Lab/SocSci grad students?, Greetings from near the Meditation pool at Sierra Hot Springs where I just had a lovely soak, and silently read from my Harbin book, (since it's a quiet place and there were a fair number of people naked in a pretty little pool). HARBIN Book is releasing into the world from a meditative warm water space ~~~ :) ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/10/outamba-kilimi-park-sierra-leone-very.html ...
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For inspiring Yoga as well? {A&Vs, for example?} .... Great ... edX in Spanish for free. ... Spanish and Chinese in addition to English are WUaS's pilot languages for free CC OCW university and high school degrees, accrediting on CC MIT OCW in its 7 languages (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses) and CC Yale OYC ... could WUaS open edX up further by adding CC Yale OYC and CC MIT OCW to edX (and ask students' countries and govts to donate some portion of what it costs to go to YALE or MIT for free accrediting degrees to WUaS?
Este es el directorio más completo de universidades latinas que dictan cursos virtuales y gratuitos
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To "Forestry" "Indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas" and "Ocean_&_Climate_Management_Plan" ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Forestry and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas & http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_&_Climate_Management_Plan wiki subjects, planned in many languages
Keeping forests intact is worth US$523 billion–1.165 trillion over the next 20 years for Brazil alone, top economist calculates - and indigenous people can help
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Greetings from near the Meditation pool at Sierra Hot Springs where I just had a lovely soak, and silently read from my Harbin book, (since it's a quiet place and there were a fair number of people naked in a pretty little pool). HARBIN Book is releasing into the world from a meditative warm water space ~~~ :)

~Scott
(Sierra Hot Springs, Sierraville, CA, October 9, 2016)

http://bit.ly/HarbinBook
http://twitter.com/HarbinBook
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Very first "Naked Harbin Ethnography" Book Releasing Party / Reading by the MEDITATION pool at Sierra Hot Springs - http://www.sierrahotsprings.org - happened this morning, Sun. Oct 9th around 10:10am am - 521 Campbell Hot Springs Rd, Sierraville, CA 96126 ...

Schedule here ... bit.ly/HarbinBook & twitter.com/HarbinBook
Very first "Naked Harbin Ethnography" Book Releasing Party / Reading by the MEDITATION pool at Sierra Hot Springs - http://www.sierrahotsprings.org - tomorrow, Sun. Oct 9th around 9 am - 521 Campbell Hot Springs Rd, Sierraville, CA 96126 ...

Schedule here ... bit.ly/HarbinBook & twitter.com/HarbinBook
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Happy Nobel Peace Prize day amd happy birthday, Desmond Tutu (whom I met on Semester at Sea in South Africa about 12 years ago!) ... To http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Peace_and_Social_Justice_Studies ...
Appropriate on the day the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded: happy 85th birthday to another winner, the great Archbishop Desmond Tutu. #TutuAt85
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MMmmm ... Yoga restorative poses ... To the open wiki Yoga subject at World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga Planned in many languages.
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In what ways to best engage for Yoga (and at WUaS) ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga?
Some very nice work by my Google Research colleagues +George Toderici​, Damien Vincent, Nick Johnston, Sung Jin Hwang, David Minnen, Joel Shor and Michele Novell on using recurrent neural networks to do image compression significantly better than JPEG (at the same image quality). They released a TensorFlow implementation of this system, as well. Nice work!

Arxiv paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05148
TensorFlow code: https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/compression
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Naked Harbin Ethnography" now an eBook! ~ http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ~ with Kindle edition, readable on ANY device, - from Academic Press at WUaS ... Harbin and this book have Yoga ...
"Naked Harbin Ethnography" now an eBook! ~ http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ~ with Kindle edition, readable on ANY device, - from Academic Press at WUaS
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Another person bought my Harbin book on paper http://bit.ly/HarbinBook from https://www.createspace.com/6072369 in NEW Academic Press at WUaS > planned in many languages ... there's Yoga at Harbin ... 
Another person bought my Harbin book on paper http://bit.ly/HarbinBook from https://www.createspace.com/6072369 in NEW Academic Press at WUaS > planned in many languages ... Harbin has Yoga ...
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Another person bought my Harbin book on paper http://bit.ly/HarbinBook from https://www.createspace.com/6072369 in NEW Academic Press at WUaS > planned in many languages ... Harbin has Yoga ...
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This is in India ... inspiring perhaps a new kind of Yoga ... the sheep on this Indian look so content (santosha is the Sanskrit word) ... To http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga?
You do what you have got to do :)

via: reddit.com
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You can get my new ethnography at http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ... Harbin and my book have Yoga!
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Here is my new book, Friends ~ "Naked Harbin Ethnography" with a virtual world aspect, and much mention of Yoga ~ with Discount code here ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ... and which you can order at - https://www.createspace.com/6072369 .
Here is my new book, Friends ~ "Naked Harbin Ethnography" with a virtual world aspect, and many mentions of Quakers ~ with Discount code here ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ... and which you can order at - https://www.createspace.com/6072369 .
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Hmmm ... a cat robot for cradling ... must try yoga in a warm pool like this ... To http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Robotics & http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga?
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There's Yoga & floating at Harbin ... into the Virtual Harbin here ...

Manatee: Very first two paper copies of my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book today, Will get 5 different channels for distribution via CreateSpace in the very first book in the new Academic Press at World University and School, planned in each of all 7,943 languages with machine translation, AI and machine learning, Very first book in Academic Press ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/09/manatee-very-first-two-paper-copies-of.html
There's floating at Harbin ... into the Virtual Harbin here ...

Manatee: Very first two paper copies of my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book today, Will get 5 different channels for distribution via CreateSpace in the very first book in the new Academic Press at World University and School, planned in each of all 7,943 languages with machine translation, AI and machine learning, Very first book in Academic Press ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/09/manatee-very-first-two-paper-copies-of.html
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A little Krishna action here ... what's the dance between Krishna & Yoga in Yoga http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga and in India ...http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India ... ?
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Victor van Kooten: What is [de]Meaning of Life? ,,, https://excellencereporter.com/2016/06/01/victor-van-kooten-what-is-demeaning-of-life/ Here's he's talking to friends in Holland as well as coming into conversation with Angela ... and Victor seems to have found his own meaning of life as a teacher of Yoga itself, and earned money doing this! :) ... To Yoga ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga ... and Religious Studies ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Religious_Studies ... World University and School - Planned in ALL languages ...
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Angela Farmer: Life Has Meaning … Not In Words But In The Living - https://excellencereporter.com/2016/06/02/angela-farmer-life-has-meaning-not-in-words-but-in-the-living/ ... ANGELA's language and vision are far-reaching, and here's she's talking to friends in Holland :) ... To Yoga ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga ... and Religious Studies ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Religious_Studies ... World University and School - Planned in ALL languages ...
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