Talk Talk

THE MUSIC MACHINE 📀 Talk Talk {Stereo} 1966
Smurfstools Oldies Music Time Machine

My keen insight of the day is that there are two kinds of people - those for whom what is said is more important than any real thing, and those for whom reality is more important than what people say. Since politics is just talk and has no connection to reality, it may be safely ignored.

Starfall - SpaceX Cargo Capsule

Starfall - SpaceX's Surprise New Spacecraft
Scott Manley

Not one of Scott's best videos, but it's understandable. The Starfall cargo capsule is not as exciting as a big rocket launch, but Mr. Manley does an adequate job covering all the basics which is more than everyone else in Google land was able to deliver.

Defence Blog got me started. The military is looking to use Starfall to deliver inflatable life rafts. A rocket should be able to deliver a life raft anywhere in the world in one hour.

UNI-PAC III life raft undergoing a fit-check on the SpaceX Starfall capsule - SpaceX

UNI-PAC II Life Raft Deployed with Sea Anchor

Poseidon Dropping Life Raft

Airman Inspecting Life Raft Loaded in Poseidon Bomb Bay 

Poseidon can also carry torpedoes or other munitions in the bomb bay. Poseidon is also used for Search And Rescue. So Starfall could also be used to deliver weapons quickly to anywhere in the world. Could be handy when SpaceX gets their big rocket going and we get real Starship Troopers.

Funnies

10 Short Videos #6293

10 Short Videos #6293

1. Drop Casing in Hole Oil and Gas
2. Mesmerising beauty blue fiddler crab
3. Traditional Cast Iron Casting Technology Using a Reusable Metal Mold
4. Bro left the server 😂 - Tiger versus duck
5. Outdoor-to-Indoor Motion Transmitter
6. Osprey with a huge catch lands on nearby grass!
7. From Tons of Rust to a Perfect Crank: The Forge Monster
8. A Cup of Mercury Started the Electric Age ⚡
9. Heavy Equipment Repair: Inside the Drive Gear Rebuilding Process (Dozer)
10. Donkey protects calf from bear

Scandal

The Scandal | Official Trailer | Netflix [ENG SUB]
Netflix K-Content

We've been watching The Scandal, a Korean series set in the Joseon era (1400 - 1900). We have people scheming to either bed someone, or get other people into bed, and yes, we are talking about having sex, so all kinds of lies and double dealing going on. Also considerably more skin than any other Korean show we have seen where there is absolutely no skin besides hands and faces.

Anyway, it's a little hard to follow, mostly because I have a hard time telling the older women apart. Sometimes you can tell similar looking characters apart because they behave differently, but these gals are all stone faced liars. Is that the mother-in-law, or the tobacco lady. No matter, the gist comes through.

Anyway, I'm watching this show and suddenly this old movie pops into my head. I couldn't remember it right off. It took asking Google mutliple questions before I finally hit on the right combination of key words.(hit movie middle ages scheming woman revealed by her lover when he dies).

Dangerous Liaisons (1988) Official Trailer - Glenn Close, John Malkovich Movie HD
Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

Make an Icosahedron

How to Make an Icosahedron
Pepper and Pine

Came across this while looking for replacement images for an old post about World Maps and I just thought it was cool. Fabric tape (4:40). Who'd a thunk it?

Map of the World

Equal Earth Projection

The UN has passed a resolution encouraging people to use an equal area projection instead of the Mercator projection for maps of the world.

Mercator Projection

Supposedly the Mercator projection is better for navigation, something about you can draw a route from one place to another as a straight line. Of course anyone plotting a ship's course is going to use a map that only shows the relevant portion of the world. Area doesn't even enter the question.

Eckert IV projection

The Eckert projection is another equal area projection. If you can tell the difference between Eckert and Equal Earth you are better man than me.

Mercator Projection Versus True Size

This true size is not a coherent projection.

Mercator Projection Versus Eckert IV

All these maps reminds me of a scene from Strategist Kanbei where some Jesuit priests show Oda Nobunaga a map of the world which kind of blew his mind. It took the priests some absurd length of time to get from Portugal to Japan, like two years.

Fra Mauro Map of the World

The Fra Mauro map is a map of the world made around 1450 by the Italian (Venetian) cartographer Fra Mauro. Note that 1450 is before Columbus sailed to the New World.

My Low Distortion World Map

You'd think that after all this time I could have produced a better version of my map, but I've been busy.

Spilhaus Projection

This is the one that got me started on this post. Text from above image:

MANY SEAS, ONLY ONE OCEAN

Invented in 1942 by oceanographer Athelstan Spilhaus, the cartographic projection of the same name allows us to see the world through the eyes of a marine organism. The 70.8% of water on Earth forms, clearly shown here, an immense continuum, a large continuous body of water, varying in temperature and salinity according to currents and the ebb and flow of the seasons.

P. S. Ocean Currents

Ocean Currents Spilhaus Projection