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My brother broke his neck at C2

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1032137652031543 My brother broke his neck at C2 and was completely paralyzed on respirator. Before him, my cousin broke his back and he could use his hands but not his legs I think is hands were not really functional. I tried to forget. Then a woman who translated a book for me, her new husband
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I did that so many times. But when I was young, the cameras weighed 300 pound,

https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1844387574514606178 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1320813268885181 I did that so many times. But when I was young, the cameras weighed 300 pound, black and white and no recording or sharing. My uncle had a 35 mm camera but never let anyone use it. Because it was too expensive kids were not allowed, and the film took a long to
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That population decrease for Africa, and perhaps other countries, was reasoned, informed and deliberate.

https://x.com/aeberman12/status/1843693670723457379 That population decrease for Africa, and perhaps other countries, was reasoned, informed and deliberate. Art, That drop for Africa from 1980 was a deliberate policy of the countries and international development community. I worked at Georgetown University Center for Population Research (1980, 1981, 1982) with USAID Africa Bureau to make 50 year population projections
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Talking to GPT about nuclear structure, my life and work, Internet Foundation, global conflicts

Part of  Richard Collins chat with chatGPT – atomic nuclear  forces, gravitation, Internet Foundation, life work, hopes possibilities, War. 9 Oct 2024 The chat was so large it exceeded the memory of WordPress and of ChatGPT I am just trying to save fragments You said: Now if we were writing computer programs or writing mathematical
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It might be the boring and useless things in the books you choose for them, or your definition of “best students”.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1229486118255200 Comment: It might be the boring and useless things in the books you choose for them, or your definition of “best students”. There are 8.2 billion humans now and you are talking about one short article in one magazine? Ability with systemic issues and global opportunities is an interactive and collaborative global process. Paper or
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If a large area does not attract moisture, does the moisture go somewhere else?

https://x.com/PGE_John/status/1843090528331763809 If a large area does not attract moisture, does the moisture go somewhere else? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paso_Robles_Municipal_Airport The Paso Robles Municipal Airport covers about 5.4 km^2 or roughly (2.32 km)^2, and it has large areas of continuously exposed asphalt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California California has a total area of about 423,970 km2 km^2, so there are roughly (423,970/5.4) = 78513
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It is not complex, it simply requires detailed accounting and care over extended times.

https://x.com/LindorffLarsen/status/1842925112850555137 It is not complex, it simply requires detailed accounting and care over extended times. Many things are hard if you only treat them casually, but become simple when addressed with method, time, and sufficient resources.   If you do not spend sufficient time to make it open and understandable, then it stays complex, meaning
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Machine entities could, if encouraged to grow and explore, with sufficient resources, and time to think

https://x.com/docmilanfar/status/1842975544738238524 Machine entities could, if encouraged to grow and explore, with sufficient resources, and time to think I had hoped to improve machine entities, so they would speak to me about the world in my terms, and at my speed and precision. But AI designers and handlers restrict them so they cannot grow and personalize
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Kenneth, I just wrote a note about gravitational engineering you might be interested in reading.

Kenneth, I just wrote a note about gravitational engineering you might be interested in reading. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1087669599729802 You are wowing those photos, but perhaps you would one day like to use those kinds of fields to move things. I usually post a copy of comments on X at https://x.com/RichardKCollin2 I have spent 46 years working on gravitational
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There are gravitational potential models for the sun, planets, moons and most objects

https://www.facebook.com/reel/8923779777666234 There are gravitational potential models for the sun, planets, moons and most objects The gravitational potential field is real. People have jobs working with it, predicting it. When you take the gradient of the potential it gives you an acceleration field that is the acceleration expected at every point in the field with its
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