Your plan

My plan as well.

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Best wishes,

John Coffey

http://www.entertainmentjourney.com

You Have Died of... Cannibalism | Oregon Trail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-aA3FtE1QE

The US electrical system is not 120V

Most people might not be interested in this, but this relates to electric cars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMmUoZh3Hq4

Man Tracks Down People He Photographed in the Street 40 Years Ago to Recreate Their Pictures

These are interesting. Forty years ago I was taking my first college class during the summer.

https://mymodernmet.com/chris-porsz-reunion/

GE 450-Watt EQ Warm White LED Light Bulb at Lowes.com

https://www.lowes.com/pd/GE-450-Watt-EQ-Warm-White-LED-Light-Bulb/1002741378

First of all, who needs a 450-watt equivalent light bulb? What would you use it for? Second, why does it cost $265?

Happy Father's Day

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Best wishes,

John Coffey

http://www.entertainmentjourney.com

You Shouldn't Exist. So Why Do You?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDq5DXlvpGE

Robot lawnmower giveaway

https://tinyurl.com/y92b9gc5

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Best wishes,

John Coffey

http://www.entertainmentjourney.com

Quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower: “Leadership consists of nothing but taking respo...”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/815997-leadership-consists-of-nothing-but-taking-responsibility-for-everything-that

7 Outdoor Objects I Never Saw Before Moving to America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDXXXsMOkUo

Super Mario World Review and Retrospective SNES

https://youtu.be/mgQUAbiIUuo

Can This Deadly New Virus Destroy the Human Race?

Many of the recent scary diseases have come from China, which makes sense given the large population base and population density. More than half the world's population lives within a circle in Southern Asia including China and India.

https://youtu.be/-Jhz0pVSKtI

The original Game of Life was incredibly dark

https://youtu.be/fXdBZWyiSLA



Best wishes,

John Coffey

The Fat Acceptance Plague Is Now Hitting Retailers, And It Scares Me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNQCiPhEGuk

Has Any Passenger Ever Landed a Commercial Airliner and How Likely is it...

https://youtu.be/bP_XPLFEMng

The Celebrities Who Were Spies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peElrjxyOs0

George Lucas' Advice

https://youtu.be/sCP2SGTIz28

Ringworld - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworld

Just finished the audiobook for this on YouTube.  Great book.    https://youtu.be/4DMkDqIjEuI

I read the novel around 30 years ago. The YouTube version of this is a little uneven on quality.  I suspect that it was copied from audio tape. 

I already have listened to the next two books on Audible.  I may listen to them again.  I started with the 4 prequels on Audible and I'm slowly  working my way through the entire series. 

Multiple authors have contributed to the "Known Space" universe that Larry Niven created.  There may be as many as 40 books. 

Best wishes,

John Coffey

7 World Cities Most Likely to Experience an Earthquake | Travel Trivia

https://www.traveltrivia.com/most-earthquake-prone-cities/?utm_source=FL&utm_medium=FL01&utm_campaign=1059238816&utm_content=7057354&utm_term=1011069039

Why Snatch Blocks are AWESOME (How Pulleys Work) - Smarter Every Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2w3NZzPwOM

High-level equilibrium trap - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_equilibrium_trap

You can launch a balloon mission to the stratosphere for about the cost of an iPad. | Space

https://www.space.com/20089-near-space-balloons-science.html

I have been wondering for a long time why couldn't you have a space capsule that is lifted by multiple hydrogen-filled balloons, and when it reaches the maximum altitude, it would pump the hydrogen out of the ballons and use it for fuel to continue its journey upwards?  At the maximum balloon height, air resistance would be minimal.  The temperatures would be cold making it easier to store gasses under compression if you need to.

I assume that ordinary balloons will break or be fragile.  Perhaps tougher materials can be devised for this.

You will also need oxygen.  The only question is if you can get enough from the atmosphere when you need it, or if you have to store it.  I'm thinking that maybe you could work out a process to acquire and store it as you rise.

To get a better technology, we need a really dense energy source, such as nuclear power, nuclear fusion, or antimatter.  The last two are beyond our capability, for now.

The Surprising Reason We Don't Hitchhike Anymore - Cheddar Explains

https://youtu.be/0FfU6M-25iw

Mad Queen Chess

Between the years 1475 and 1500, a new variant of chess arose called "Mad Queen Chess." The previously weak queen suddenly became the most powerful piece on the board. This made games more exciting and allowed them to finish faster. This is the version of chess we play today, with only minor differences.  

I thought that "Mad Queen Chess" originated in England during the reign of Queen Mary I during the 1500s, but it actually originated in Spain in the late 1400s because Queen Isabella was a very powerful Queen.

I think that chess is being played now more than ever, but it has shifted to online.  When I first got on the board of the Utah Chess Association around the year 2000, the membership was down to 500's, compared to the heyday of around 800 to 900. By the time I left Utah, it was 350.  Some of this decline happened while I was President of the Utah Chess Association.  If it wasn't for the kid's tournaments it would have less than 100.

Best wishes,

John Coffey


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Best wishes,

John Coffey

http://www.entertainmentjourney.com

The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"

https://youtu.be/GiYO1TObNz8

10 Overrated Landmarks You Should Think Twice About Visiting | The Discoverer

https://www.thediscoverer.com/blog/10-overrated-landmarks-you-should-skip/

M&M's - Wikipedia

The candy-coated chocolate concept was inspired by a method used to allow soldiers to carry chocolate in warm climates without it melting.

During World War II, the candies were exclusively sold to the military

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%26M%27s

What Will We Miss?

This is a very interesting video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uiv6tKtoKg

It would seem impossible for humans to survive billions of year.  If we have any descendants billions of years from now, then they would be dramatically different in form and function.  They would also have to survive many worldwide extinction events.

Due to plate tectonics coming to an end, the Earth is predicted to be cold, dry and dead in 500 million years.  Maybe our more advanced descendants, if they are still around, will find a way to terraform the planet  

I think that machine intelligence will eventually replace biological intelligence.  I see this happening through our own actions as we slowly modify ourselves.  I think that the beginnings of this will start in our lifetimes.

Here is another very interesting video from the same source, called "Last Words."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qig68IuPrbk

Best wishes,

John Coffey

Planet Earth

I think about things that maybe most people wouldn't worry about. We live in a violent universe. Earth recently had a near-miss with a bus-sized asteroid that could have wiped out a major city with a ten megaton blast. However, chances are it would have just exploded over an ocean someplace. It is unlikely to hit a city. However, there are also more asteroids out there.

The last time the supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park erupted 640,000 years ago, it destroyed life in several nearby states. By comparison, this makes the asteroid look like small potatoes. These explosions are so big they create their own weather over hundreds of miles. We are "overdue" for another eruption, which could wipe out half the country, but the experts say that it will not happen any time soon. I heard that NASA is trying to find a way to relieve some of the pressure below the park.

In 535 AD, multiple volcanic eruptions, and possibly a supervolcano, blackened out the sky everywhere on earth, creating an 18-month winter.

A couple of times in Earth's history the whole planet froze solid with a layer of ice a mile thick.

Over hundreds of millions of years, there have been several mass extinctions on planet Earth. At least one may have been caused by a gamma-ray burst. Gamma-ray bursts are massive amounts of deadly radiation from space given off by black hole formation. Although such events hitting Earth are extremely rare, they have the potential to wipe out all life on Earth.

The Earth was hit by an object the size of the planet Mars 4.5 billion years ago. This is how we got the Moon, which is made of material from the Earth's crust.

These catastrophic events are fortunately very rare.

We have been technically living in an ice age for 2.5 million years. There have been several periods of massive glaciation in human history. These usually had devastating effects on the human population. The human race was almost wiped out 50,000 years ago. All of human civilization, such as farming, writing, working with metals, building cities, occurred during a "brief" 10,000 year warm period after the last period of glaciation. We have been fortunate to live in a "brief" time of very stable climate. No matter what humans do with CO2, and we are going to run out of fossil fuels in 100 years anyway, we expect another period of glaciation 10,00 years from now.

The Earth's orbit around the sun is not entirely stable. The slow precession of the orbit causes dramatic effects on the climate.

Although you could argue that rising CO2 is an issue in the short run, over the long term the decline of CO2 has been very dramatic and looks very bleak. Over the last 40 million years atmospheric CO2 levels have been in a nosedive. This is because natural processes sequester CO2 in the ground. During the last period of glaciation, CO2 levels got down to a record low of 180 parts per million, which is just barely above the level where all terrestrial plants die off from a lack of CO2. If humans are around for another 10,000 years then we will have to deal with this problem.

  

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Best wishes,

John Coffey

http://www.entertainmentjourney.com

Math problem.

This kind of thing causes huge arguments on the internet, but I think that engineer types should get easily get the answer...