Author: Richard K Collins

Director, The Internet Foundation Studying formation and optimized collaboration of global communities. Applying the Internet to solve global problems and build sustainable communities. Internet policies, standards and best practices.

Richard Talks to Google Gemini about SpaceX Starship, AI capabilities and responsibilities, a compressible vacuum

Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation: Can you tell me details of the suborbital test of Starship? Or are you out of date? Google Bard Gemini: I am up-to-date on Starship information. Starship has actually completed several suborbital test flights, not just one. Here’s a quick rundown: Starship prototypes undergo suborbital flights to test the vehicle’s
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Richard Talks with Grok about X, global open tokens, topics and conversations, topic management and fair indexing of the Internet

Note:  In this conversation, I said there was no article on Gyrotrons in Wikipedia. It was that I could not search Wikipedia through Google.  There is an article when searching inside Wikipedia English version at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrotron Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation:  When people use the # to name things on Twitter, what is that called?
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Sub nanosecond flash 3D video sampling allows gravitational imaging, “imaging accelerometry”

I am interested in your “double exposure”. 200 ns would be 5 Mfps. Can you say which specific cameras from Imperix or elsewhere can support that? I am also interested in LWIR “thermal” camera for passive radiometry. Do you have anyone interested in camera interface standards? There are many cameras, and the cost of storing
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Add diamagnetic gravimeter to the list of ways to make chip scale gravimeters and their imaging networks

Diamagnetic magnetic levitation at nanoscale is one way to make chip scale gravimeters. A “gravimeter” is an accelerometer that can track the sun and moon by their gravitational fields precisely. https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13555   The three axis signal allows “gravitational GPS/GNSS” and “gravitational compass” in 3D. Array for imaging atmospheres, oceans, magma and interiors of things. After
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