Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org

We got an Ammie video caller to talk to the kids in rainy Callie. Ammie's bleeding and it was cheap. However, Alexa has a few screws loose. When asked about the situation with the US House speaker, she quoted some site with 'Nancy Pelosi was elected with a unanimous vote." :) I assume it was a satire site.

**Poots orders things for the Front** But they have no phones. "Hello, hello? Why is nobody answering?"

#physics #weather **My forecast wrong**
The chaotic nature of the ocean plumes has zapped me again. I thought it would be a repeat of the NA and Europe Arctic spills. Instead, we have a huge cold air spill through Siberia and into the Pacific Ocean. This is giving California a heck of a time. If you just look at chosen spots, you see a lot of warm weather, and you can make a convincing story that we are having a mild winter.

**Tanks are just memories** This is a heavy tank war, and the West doesn't have any to spare. All the action went into these 'light vehicles' for Afghanistan. In the 70's all the action was into various loser tank designs.

**The Trillion Dollar Club** Notice that ammie just bought irobot. **A new robot sweeps clean**

**No heat electric cars** My kids have one of the first Ford electric cars. The range on a warm day is 70km. In winter, at 20 below, with snow on the road, it's about 30, if you turn on the heat. So, they are always freezing in the car. This innovation allows you to be a tiny bit warmer with no heat. I can't drive with a frozen nose. :)

#physics #weather **Siberian spill makes California wet** In California, the effects of an earthquake depend on the water table. Let's hope for no earthquake right now.
50% of a storm is the cold side. Right now, that's coming down from Siberia and the Alaska spill is still active. Everywhere else in the world, it's just swirly-mucky.

**Scaling Paradise** I am greatly enjoying this slice of paradise, namely qoto. Scaling is a horrible physics concept. It means that the users are increasing exponentially and that moderation efforts can only increase linearly. I once thought there could be a structural thing, that could change the inevitable finale, but I can't think of any. :( It tends to mean that the weeds overwhelm the garden.

**All Glory for Tesla** Wow, I didn't realize the extent of the crash.

#physics **The power of exponential growth**

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-evidence-covid-19-was-spreading-around-the-world-in-late-2019/

Covid was piddling around the world from the late summer of 2019. I got one of the first cases in Jan. 2020, from my brother-in-law who started the Bracebridge cluster. :) It was just a flu then. The article says that other viruses had a physics effect, but covid was under the noise. No philosophers in the media get the concept. The Chinese were just smart enough to type it first, as it blew up.

**Super-Gig Economy** Companies will fire all those working from home, and go for super-short gigs for 'skills'. This won't help them hire the 'brilliants' and they will all go down the tubes. :)

#physics #weather Last time, extreme weather was caused by a 'dancing jet stream' Now, they are into 'straight'. This is the Wednesday dance. On the physics side, the Arctic headpond still builds up, and all the ocean plumes are low and flat. At least the polar vortex fairies are quiet.

**Poor Sweden** Having been in the nuclear industry, and glad to be retired, I'd only buy reactors from South Korea, and poach all their people. :)

**No Canadians to China** Canadians should not visit China right now. Who knows what they will do?

The noaa tide gauge plots correlate well with this plot, but they are all very late now.

#physics #weather **Spencer world temperature plot down** Sat plots work like a 'no touch' thermometer. They read infra-red and microwave energy from warm air or the surface. The Spencer plot follows most of the other plots that come later in the month.

#physics #weather **Nothing much going on**
The cold spill continues into the Pacific. The Arctic headpond of very cold air builds up, and it looks like a weak spot about to spill on NA. Europe continues to get plumes. We are waiting for another burst.

#physics **Dinosaurs with Physics** This is a great boring story, that I've done in my blog. It's the dinosaur story with physics. Nothing to do with the influencer story, I'm not even including charts.
You can get a chart of the Earth's temperature for the last 2 billion years. It goes up and down in a sinusoid with a cycle of about 300 million years. Nobody puts the plate tectonics 'Shmoosh Factor' on top of that.
Yes, Virginia, continental shmooshing is in perfect sync with that. When the continents are flung apart, we get cold, when they are together we get heat, and jungles on the poles.
The physics for that is beyond this discussion, but be assured that the same game physics has been operating since the beginning. During the last cycle, the Earth was cold and giant 'mammally' creatures roamed -- warm blooded. Then the big shmoosh of the Mesozoic. Those creatures all cow-tipped with heat stroke because of another physics thing - heat dissipation.
Although the biomass of mammals was as great as ever, only tiny, all attention was on giant dinosaurs. Then the continents did their thing again. The big Arctic air glaciers knocked down the dinosaurs like iguanas falling from trees in a Florida chill. The mammals ate them. Circle of life.
Don't get me started with giant mammals.

#physics **Goognoculars** A brilliant idea to keep Google from the trash heap of history. I was reading about mechanical stabilized binoculars. They used a liquid prism that probably wasn't good at 40 below. Then I thought a successor to the famous creepy Google glasses. Make stabilized binoculars, all electronic. We'd call them 'prismless' Hook them into the Pixel 7-8-9.
I'd look at a bird from the cottage deck and it would recreate a beautiful AI image. Then I would move the slider from 'dull reality' to 'AI happiness'.
I would say - 'Darn, that's a common house sparrow. I want a Greater Spotted Tit'. And poof! Take a picture.
Now AI would put everybody out of a job. And then, why need goognoculars? Just make up pictures. Life is good. :)