Category: Engineering/Science

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Nothing is …

“Nothing is … UNTIL it is.” – Dr. Freckles

  • alt: Schrodinger’s Cat interpretation
  • time travel
  • total oblivion
  • survival of the fractor
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SPARKS was RIGHT!

In the YEAR 2199 …

… not everything was fine …

… the Earth was almost dust …

… the land was a bust …

… Gamilon planet bombs have turned our world to RUST …

… BUT WAS THERE HOPE?

General Lysis … shit posting about the STAR FORCE …

… this is where it gets kind of rapey …

… we learn some truth about Japanese culture …

… women are disposable things …

… women are like potato chips …

Isn’t that RIGHT, SPARKS?!?

What did we learn:

  1. MARS is 1,000 light years away – and it snows there.
  2. Pluto has amoeba creatures or protozoa living on it.
  3. Towards the end of SEASON 1, shit goes downhill …
  4. Japanese culture is kind of rapey. Sort of into a LOT of having sex with unconscious women … damsels in distress …
  5. Humans are kind of rapey …
  6. There are no heroes …
  7. All navy guys are kind of rapey … US … Chinese … British … Turkish … rapey
  8. The ARGO is a giant rape cannon … wave motion gun? – what kind of porn-hub James Deen rapey’ness is that? The Desslok gun? Come on … hide your L’s better …
  9. SPARKS was RIGHT!
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BASH COMMAND: loop and run FFMPEG …

Loop through .mp3 files and cover photos to generate video files for upload to YouTube.

#!/bin/bash
#run chmod u+x manson.sh

for i in {1..15}
do
	echo "(i) is $i"
	j=$(printf "%03d" $i)
	date
	n=$(printf "ffmpeg -loop 1 -r 1 -i $j.png -i $j.mp3 -c:a copy -shortest -c:v libx264 mov_$j.mp4")
	$n
done
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Combining .MP4 videos (using FFMPEG)

Create the script file that contains the file list: file_list.txt (as shown are the contents)

#combine video

file 'HDV_1254.MP4'
file 'HDV_1255.MP4'
file 'HDV_1256.MP4'
file 'HDV_1257.MP4'

Then, on the LINUX terminal line (command line):

$ ffmpeg -f concat -i file_list.txt -c copy 20230429_Walking_Dogs.mp4

And if you just want to merge/combine all the videos in a directory, do this bash command to concatenate the .mp4 file names:

$ for f in *.mp4; do echo "file '$f'" >> file_list.txt; done

… and then, just run the same command for ffmpeg as shown above …

FUN!

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I’m beginning to think …

I’m beginning to think the approach I’ve been taking with JS8 call is a bridge too far – and that I would be better off learning to compile the code, and just create my own branch. Make the changes I want in C++ to include interop with websites that are accessible on some given network using standard REST calls. Also, allow it a scripted response model so that any given JS8Call app can act as a “radio service” taking messages, and replying. Also, add in flexible topology and multi-app running instances on the same computer. Who knows, add in a built in connector for MYSQL for data logging and event logging for outside of process coding and scripting by other consumers … so I don’t know if I can, I’m 53 and burnt out and believe the world could explode, figuratively, in a few months.

But is it the end of the world? – no, not by a long shot …

So maybe I try.

Will it be easy? – don’t know … I think

And here’s the other thing …

JS8Call, RIGHT NOW, AS IS would allow you to build an organic twitter style decentralized relationship with other people using CB radio and this network WORKS even if the WWW is down … is it good for secrets, as is? – no … is it good enough for the public square? – yes.

You could sell eggs, right now, using JS8Call on CB Radio – just need to expand the network, more users, bigger world.

And I would think a lot of real anarchists and libertarians would be into this …

CB RADIO – NO HAM LICENSE …

(and then we go from there)

And this is all in JS8CALL.COM right now.

With some work? – who the fuck knows what’s possible.

I feel like the world of shortwave radio, and CB, needs a revolution – and this could be the beginning.

RADENGINEERING.TECH

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Gravity Battery

If you read the “Medieval Machine” by Jean Gimpel, you will come across examples of this kind of energy storage going back thousands of years …

It is simple a PE (potential energy) storage system or abstract dam …

Dams are PE batteries – they store energy as water held at a certain height, and then releasing this stored PE translates to electricity in the turbine/generator system …

Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/could-gravity-batteries-win-energy-storage-war

A. J. From Florida and I discussing this in 2019 …