I Love You,
Pakistan by Luke Korns.
Luke hasn’t
traveled much during the pandemic. So he impulsively booked a flight to Karachi,
found someone who was an astronomer to stay with. They went on a train, bus,
and mountain climb, dealing with an avalanche or rock slide which they cleared
by hand.
Along the way, lots of radical hospitality, no religion or politics.
At the 13000 foot summit they looked at the Milky Way on a new moon.
Picture of truck art, Wikipedia, pd
‘On the Same Team’ or ‘En el Mismo Equipo’ (2015) by BONZO
VILLEGAS and CARLOS VILARÓ NADAL is a 21 minute short about a bisexual rugby
player Emmanuel in Chile.
After a super masculine teammate and best friend comes out
to him, his relations with girls become ambiguous.
Picture; Copper mine embed Wikipedia
The Climate Change channel reports ‘Venus is NOT a Runaway
Greenhouse Effect’
The video does not really say that but it does show what
happens if Venus and Mars trade places.
Both planets could have had chance, to make the solar
system more like that of Dune.
Wikipedia picture embed clock for attribution
The Action Lab described “Minimal Surfaces” as “The
Shapes that Help Us Understand Black Holes”.
A minimal surface (which you see in reality with a
soap bubble held by surface tension) is one where the second derivative of the
curvature at any point is zero.
That’s not the same thing as the minimum surface area
– which will be attained by a perfect sphere.
Wikipedia: embed of a helicoid, click for
attribution. Another kind of minimal
surface will be the catenoid.
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Frankie Kraft has a short film, 5 minutes, Jan. 2017, “Touch
Me in the Morning”.
An attractive gay man get up and waits in the living
room of his Los Angeles garden apartment. In the other room, last night’s trick,
who is taller, tries to woo him again, even drawing his long hair into a ponytail
and playing a popular song on vinyl on a stereo.
Then the trick leaves,
Then the first guy leaves.
This looks like the 70s.
“KIC 8462582: The Plot Thickens”, is a new 17 minute video about a star hidden by unexplained debris.
Science fiction author John Michael Godier updates the
theories about Tabby’s Star, 1500 light years away. It's official name includes a seven-digit phone number! Now he speculates that self-replicating robots
could have mined asteroids and built an O’Neill cylinder around the entire
orbit of a planet, maybe as part of a Dyson Sphere structure.
The film shows at least two O’Neill landscapes.
Wikipedia embed shows a star partially hidden by a dust ring, click for attribution.
“Why Will This ‘Zombie’ Mushroom Destroy Humanity?”
from Ridddle (Dec. 16. 2020).
There is a fungus plant that will attach itself to a
certain insect and integrate itself with the insect, taking over it, even the
brain, and getting it to produce fungus spores.
So the natural horror movie scenario is that this
could happen to people.
Newscientist article on something similar.
But would you remain yourself as fungal laziness took
over?
Wikipedia picture, embed, click for attribution
