Harold Asmis @hasmis@social.cleverlibre.org

@josemanuel Apparently, according to an article I just read, all of Japan is cut off from us because they love the porno schoolgirl thing.

**All Glory for Tesla** Wow, I didn't realize the extent of the crash.

#physics **The power of exponential growth**

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-evidence-covid-19-was-spreading-around-the-world-in-late-2019/

Covid was piddling around the world from the late summer of 2019. I got one of the first cases in Jan. 2020, from my brother-in-law who started the Bracebridge cluster. :) It was just a flu then. The article says that other viruses had a physics effect, but covid was under the noise. No philosophers in the media get the concept. The Chinese were just smart enough to type it first, as it blew up.

**Super-Gig Economy** Companies will fire all those working from home, and go for super-short gigs for 'skills'. This won't help them hire the 'brilliants' and they will all go down the tubes. :)

#physics #weather Last time, extreme weather was caused by a 'dancing jet stream' Now, they are into 'straight'. This is the Wednesday dance. On the physics side, the Arctic headpond still builds up, and all the ocean plumes are low and flat. At least the polar vortex fairies are quiet.

@WayneCollins At which point is bitcoin a buy? :)

@AmberWavesofFlame @dremilyportermd Water Polo - only a few scars.

@mur2501 @skyblond Ha, that got me going and I didn't find anything that looked good.

**Poor Sweden** Having been in the nuclear industry, and glad to be retired, I'd only buy reactors from South Korea, and poach all their people. :)

**No Canadians to China** Canadians should not visit China right now. Who knows what they will do?

The noaa tide gauge plots correlate well with this plot, but they are all very late now.

#physics #weather **Spencer world temperature plot down** Sat plots work like a 'no touch' thermometer. They read infra-red and microwave energy from warm air or the surface. The Spencer plot follows most of the other plots that come later in the month.

@cyrilpedia Watch out for tomato sauce!

#physics #weather **Nothing much going on**
The cold spill continues into the Pacific. The Arctic headpond of very cold air builds up, and it looks like a weak spot about to spill on NA. Europe continues to get plumes. We are waiting for another burst.

@gpowerf Debian is Pugsly

@mur2501 That was pretty mild. Should have sent the rescuers to him.

@skyblond And then, they don't really close the account, but they try to fool you.

@italianrepro In all fields you just see incremental improvements. That's what you can get funding for. There is no scientific method, and not much chance for something new that challenges the power structure. Groupthnk has to be shattered by external factors, not by dropping cannon balls. :)

#physics **Dinosaurs with Physics** This is a great boring story, that I've done in my blog. It's the dinosaur story with physics. Nothing to do with the influencer story, I'm not even including charts.
You can get a chart of the Earth's temperature for the last 2 billion years. It goes up and down in a sinusoid with a cycle of about 300 million years. Nobody puts the plate tectonics 'Shmoosh Factor' on top of that.
Yes, Virginia, continental shmooshing is in perfect sync with that. When the continents are flung apart, we get cold, when they are together we get heat, and jungles on the poles.
The physics for that is beyond this discussion, but be assured that the same game physics has been operating since the beginning. During the last cycle, the Earth was cold and giant 'mammally' creatures roamed -- warm blooded. Then the big shmoosh of the Mesozoic. Those creatures all cow-tipped with heat stroke because of another physics thing - heat dissipation.
Although the biomass of mammals was as great as ever, only tiny, all attention was on giant dinosaurs. Then the continents did their thing again. The big Arctic air glaciers knocked down the dinosaurs like iguanas falling from trees in a Florida chill. The mammals ate them. Circle of life.
Don't get me started with giant mammals.