Origin of Life - The Story of Moly - Part 2

 Moly was a bright girl, just graduated from MolyU, due to the forces of plate tectonics and hot springs.  She had a problem with Lightning Hair, as all molies, so they could never group up.  She could deal with the lessers like Tungsten or Selenium, but never the stuck-up girls like Niobium.

She was floating along with her Chloride clothes, which made her salty but not zappy.  She still put out a good attractive electric field, and all the lesser nerds like Carbon and Hydrogen kept sticking to her.  Blah!

(Now, here comes the tricky part for evolution).  She became hired as the top gun for an enzyme.  The most important thing for life and she was The Knife.  She was all coddled inside, until they drifted over to a blob that used Tungsten.  Battle Stations!  Her enzyme, or protein, could attach, and then twist and unfold.  There she was, exposed in her full glory.  They started to carve up and eat the other protein, and became bigger and better, with a measly Tungsten slave who could wash the dishes.

They thrived and could eat to become the meanest dog in the park.  But how to join the Evolution Game, the big banana for Life.

(Here I am stopped for a second.  Moly must have children, little identical Molies and take over the whole vent)

--to be continued, if I can figure this out.

Origin of Life Revisited - Part One

 Biology is protein folding, Chemistry is something that can fill a beaker, and physics is the study of how atoms behave with regard to the electron profile.

I am convinced that in order to produce complex life, we needed evolution to work at the smallest level.  I was going with the 'Fight of the Blobs', but now physics has given me new inspiration.

As always, with me, we are talking the Scientific Method, with proof by experimentation.  Only our lefties have the luxury of coming out with the Truth, straight from lip-flapping.

The inspiration comes from all this 'Rare Earth' broo-haha.  That stuff is composed of rare metals, which is the big thing here.  We have had almost every 'ordinary' metal since the Romans.  This metal has a nice charge profile that can accumulate in veins, etc, and can be mined.  Gold, Iron, Silver, Copper, etc.  All good stuff.

In the heart of a Super Nova, we've had other metals form.  These are metals that 'Don't play well with others.', which was always my corporate annual review.  Yet, they are the most important thing for life.

We had no life on Earth until Plate Tectonics started dribbling out rare metals.  That implies that the total amount of life itself is limited by this stuff (Scaling Limits!).  A rare metal has a charge profile that is extremely active.  It does not group together, and the moment it is released, it has to combine with something, sometimes quite violently.  But, for us, it is always as a salt or oxide.  The Great Chinese Secret is that these rare metals are everywhere, but only useful when you strip off the gunk, and present it as a lump of metal.  This involves very ugly processing that kills everybody.  Who cares, all those guys smoke like chimneys.  We gave all the work to China and forgot about it.  Only now, are the brains of the West looking at how to do this safely.

This now leads to an even earlier Competition, or Battle of Wits to the Death.  Evolution is horribly cruel, and the loser gets eaten.  We now track the First Molybdenum Atom, released by Plate Tectonics.

 -- to be continued

Artificial Intelligence doesn't scale

 Lots of bright ideas are destroyed by scaling issues.  They are on a trajectory, and one must ask the question of what happens as they zoom up.

This is fascinating on what happens when Artie takes over all the chips in the world, and nobody has a computer to use it.  It's like electric cars in Toronto.  Look around and all you see are the 1950's wires and transformers.  You can't push more energy down these things.  Most of our energy is coming down pipelines.  

This is the essence of 'cycles'.  There are restraining forces that slowly build up.  The Artie people think they can replace all the intellectual power of human brains with electronic chips.  Another failed dream.

No matter how Artie unfolds, they need a local cache in your device.  Life is funny.

Victoria Day looks like the End of Winter

 Yeah, a perfect 70's forecast, and not anything worse, this year.

All the northern winds have run out of air, and look slack.

My clockwise vortex was just the dying gasp of Arctic Basin Mechanisms.

For Toronto, you can plant the tomatoes, maybe tomorrow.  Northern people might still have snow.

We always have had two temperature cycles, both hinged on the chaotic currents of the Pacific.  We have the 20 year cycle, and the 300 year cycle.  Right now, we are happy to confirm the 20 year cycle hitting us.  However, that would exactly like the start of the 300 year cycle, which I call a Major Ice Cycle, or just Ice Age, for short.  This cold cycle can trigger Continental Glaciation every 10,000 years, when all the highlands finish Isostatic Rebound.  We are not getting that, but the Ice Age brings the 300 year drought for the Mid-west, 10 foot snows for Ontario, and freezes the Thames.

We are now going to enter our Stagnant Summer from Hell.  Last year we still had some cold flow in July.  Probably not this year, but the Arctic can always surprise us.  No moderating flows from the Pacific, dead as a cucumber.

Clockwise vortex in Arctic Basin

 

That's a nasty North wind.

This is just for the record.  Nobody would believe me that this is significant.  Perhaps after I'm dead.  Anyway, I'm convinced that the counter clockwise vortex is the main heat machine of the earth.  It converts the heat energy from high-grade to low-grade, like any steam engine, etc.  The law of entropy.

Clockwise is something else, most likely driven by exterior forces.  They don't live that long, so we'll see tomorrow.  All of this fun physics has no effect on our real world of influencers, except that barns sometimes go flying.

English Majors try to figure out sea level

 

This is fun, it is presented as a 'Great Mystery', and the charming presenters go interview the locals to figure it out.  This is the closest thing to hitting the sea level scandal that I've seen.  Of course, they will never mention physics, because that is the 'third rail' for English Majors.

Dang Arctic Basin Vortex forming again

 Why won't it die?  Lots of cold sweeping down on us.

And Europe is still with us.

Our son was available, so we went to the cottage to open up.  Then we went home because it felt like winter.

ps going home I saw one of those wire carriers at the back of an SUV, jammed packed with plastic gasoline containers.  Must be an English Major.

We are in an El Nino, defined by current

 A regular 'media' El Nino is defined by what they want on the day.  A physics El Nino (defined by me) is a big current reversal on the Pacific Belt.  We have that now, for a couple of weeks.

This reversal carries no heat energy, so we are cold.  It is caused by the huge hot water lump left over by the 2024 heating event.  I had said it would soon interfere with the Pacific Belt current, and it is doing it now.

That belt was cold a little while ago.  You can see the hot lump now being rendered like a whale in a factory ship.  The currents will shave it slowly, and it will continue this for the rest of the summer.  They can declare El No-no any time now, but they will wait for the hot weather.

ps 

The mechanism for having a current reversal with no heat energy, has happened a few times.  It is a very thin layer of water water flowing 'downhill' over the major cold current.  All could be solved with physics.

Dying remnants of cold

 This might be a prolonged Death Scene.  

In general, this is what I expect to see.  The Arctic will just have winds sweeping over it.  We have a standard 70's repeat.  Horrendous warmth starting on the long weekend.

ps it is obvious that if the stagnant heat moves in, they intend to call an 'El No-no".

They control all the definitions, so what the heck?

ps since our weather is settled into stagnation, I'll only report if I see something weird.

New Bruce Nuclear a tad difficult

 

I remember when Bruke wanted to build a plant on Lake Erie.  "The dang thing freezes solid in the winter."  I said.  It will never be built.

I was also looking at new nuclear sites just before the NDP destroyed Ontario.  The only site was 'Bruce C', right in the middle of the place with no easy access to water.  

I am not going to lip-flap this beyond my 3 readers, but the 'C' site has no physics.  That's as far as I ever go.  That forces the other side to look up what 'physics' means.  Never happens.  That rock is sponge cake.  It's worse than Pick B with the settled ground making a giant bumper cars arena under the plant.  None of this can be proven, because they would never look at something which would make them look bad.

With an impossible site, like the nuclear waste thing, they will spend a billion dollars, and then run away, quietly in the night.  I will continue to snooze.

Cold Europe

 Finding news about the cold in Europe, is like pulling hen's teeth.

We just get this crap.

Spain guy has to wear a sweater!

Wind Power is the Shiz

 

I decided to join in on the rumpy dog pile for wind power.  It being attacked by lip-flappers, and defended by lip-flappers.  No physics.  You can read the article and it never comes to a point.  

We know that wind power kills everything, and generates a lot of infra-sound.  People and mammals can't stand that because the inner brain thinks a dinosaur is coming.

That said, when we were locating seismometers near Toronto, there was an incredible source of infra-sound, so that we had to move far away.  What was it?  Who knows, but everybody gets used to it, when it is continuous, or in a rock concert.  It's the randomness, and variation that drives people nuts with wind power.  Ten times worse with an array, because they all sync up.

I'm saying get rid of it, but without physics, we'll get something worse, like land-killing, grid destroying, solar cells.

Ding done, the Arctic Vortex is dead

 All winter, we have had a stationary vortex over the Arctic Basin.  Such a thing has to be a heat engine, in order to stay alive.  My brain kept trying to envision it, but I kept swatting it down because it hurt so much.  It's quite amazing as warmer air is on top, and as the air sinks it is pulled apart by the vortex.  The expansion feeds the spinning air, and the vortex poops very cold air out the bottom.  This just keeps accumulating until all of us get the poop spill, in the form of very dense cold air, which acts as syrup over ice cream.

This marvellous thing exploded the other day, with the remnants all over Europe.

This is a fun thing for the big warmie prediction that 2026 will be the hottest year ever.  Good thing they have the ability to change the meaning of the word 'hot'.

We are still getting pieces of the beast coming over us, but my beans are safe.

At least the air waves are filled with the coming of the 'Super El Nino'.  They have to do something.

We will have one of those years where the furnace is on one day, and the air conditioning the next.  The cold remnants will end suddenly, and we will be into stagnant air.  Hot like Heck!  This will be a fine time for the warmies to redefine 'El No-no'.  They'll raise their funds for the rest of the year.

So, on June 27, at 3 pm, it will be a stagnant, humid day at 100degF, all air conditioning at full blast, and all electric cars plugged in.  The entire NA grid will suddenly melt.  Wait!  Didn't his happen?  Oh well, those who learn from history are one in a million.

ps the title is a pun that just popped out of my brain.

ps this reminds me of a description of the breakup of the Moosonee River.  A violent thing that could be heard miles away.  It came down with a roar and broke up all the ice.  Everybody just stayed away and watched it.

Canadians on the '86 List'

 

Wow, now you know why I have only 3 readers in Canada, and I'm happy with it.  I will continue to use made-up names and make fun of people, who's names may or may not rhyme with 'rump'.  

Obviously, Canadians who obviously and strongly insult the 'rumper room', should not travel there or buy their stuff.  I've heard of electric razors rigged to blow up.  

In fact, I will go further and have nothing more to do with those people who are assumed to live more south than us.  Hope they enjoy our cold air.

World politics now follows Quantum Mechanics

 QM has done great things for the world.  Mostly with cheap, efficient lighting.  That is a force that raises the standard of living and saves lives.  No leftie argument has been raised against it.

qm rules the physics of the 'very small'.  It is now controlling the world of 'very small minds'.  The base of qm is the 'Uncertainty Principle'.  It is also called 'cat in the box' or 'whale on the bottom', in that you never know if the cat (or whale) is dead or alive.

However, in our wonderful 'Influencer World', you don't need to know the status of the cat, you just say it, and convince others.  

We go now to a deep dark place:  "Ok, prepare for the next cat announcement!  You have one second before to put in your 'investment' on the prediction markets.  3, 2, 1 - The Cat is Alive!  Cash out, that's one billion dollars in our pockets.  Next announcement in 12 hours"

The markets of the whole world go up and down a trillion dollars with each quantum cat announcement.  A billion dollars is nothing to skim out of that.

Brent crude just went down 8%

Whole world is cold

 A few little specks of warmth for our buddies to be happy.

The mimic stuff isn't available this morning.  Somebody has to pay those guys.  Are we eliminating all weather services?  Does anybody care?

Europe is deflecting the Final Burst, and it's all coming down on us.  My beans are never popping out.

The cold air is knocking at the door, but will it burst through?

No war to last more than 59 days

 In the 70's:  "I am pleased to announce that we have entered the Viet Nam War 12, nothing to do with those other wars."

We have passed Iran 1, and are now into Iran 2.  Totally different wars.

ps now, if somebody yells at them "How stupid do you think we are?", it will just zing over their heads.

Arctic continues to drain, Greenland pours down on us

 

The advance of the cold in Europe seems a bit slow.

Seems like we're still getting it.

The video shows a huge flow to Europe, but a big internal vortex for us.  It might be driven by a narrow stream from Greenland.

The Arctic breaking up is good news, and we might be warm by the end of May.

ps yeah, we have a new made-up doom!

ps 

Arctic bubble bursts - cold pours on Europe like a flood

 

I have to stay up late for an airport pickup.  Man, this flood is amazing!  Imagine if it was water.  I am hoping that the Arctic Basin Vortex is shattered for the season.  Europe is just calling it a 'cold snap'.  A shallow life without physics.

The Physics of the Frying Pan

 Physics is now becoming important with induction cooktops, and especially with temperature control.  This is a healthy paradise, but takes some work.

The best frying pan for induction has been cast iron.  Uniform heating, and non-stick, but crushes your arm and anything else in the drawer.  Hard and brittle, don't slip on the cooktop.  In general, a 'don't use' thing.  Now, we have something new, and I won't tell you what I got, or the price doubles.

The whole thing about cast iron, is that it is black, and has a knobby surface if you magnify a lot.  This allows a 'cure' which is non-stick.  You have to put the oiled pan in the oven at a horrendous heat, and wait half an hour.  Then you don't dare put any soap on it when you just rinse with hot water.  

I have found you can put the same cure on shiny stainless steel, but it's not as good, and looks so ugly, you grab for the scraper, and whap yourself on the hand to stop doing it.  Many cannot resist.

Now, for the super-pan which allows you to give the cast iron to the scrap man.  This is a medium-weight stainless steel pan with a carbon steel inter-layer for induction.  So far, like every other useless stainless steel pan.  But, they have laser etched the thing into a beautiful pattern, top and bottom.

This is etched, and it is black.  It has everything that cast iron has.

The classic 'Destroyer of Pans', puts the pancakes on a cold pan, decides they aren't sizzling, and turns the heat way up.  This person is anonymous.  For this pan, you spray in the oil, turn up the vent, put the induction heat on super-duper, and wait for 10 seconds.  The oil ripples all over the place in a neat pattern, and then starts to puff.  With super-quick reflexes you turn it off, and put on temp control at 5, medium.  I just did steaks yesterday, and they were great.

It was rain-snowing outside, so no bbq at the time.  

This is the first time that the temp control seems like heaven-scent!  (sic).

The pan just rinses off with the sink sprayer and hot water.  

ps yesterday's Chinese leftovers were better with this method, than the microwave.  Not more work.

Sea Level Continues to be Flat

 Poor US weather, they are getting later and later with the tide gauge data.

March is at the zero line.  This is the best chart of historic temperature cycles.  Everything is there.  We've had generally warm and cold cycles.  I especially like the day that Hitler decided to invade Russia.  Dropped like a stone.  Must have a connection to dictators.

As we know, the warmies decided to rename 'local sea level' to just 'sea level' for dramatic impact.  They can do anything.  So, all the places in the world that are just sinking, are 'proofs' of climate change.  They must have been laughed out of the park, because I don't see much of this any more.  Ah well, they have the power to rewrite history, and say they never said this.

I haven't noticed one speck of rationality in the media lately.  Really, you can't make fun of the silliness, because it is parody of a parody.

ps gas going up.  Don't forget to stockpile gasoline in leaky cans in your garage with lithium batteries.  

No Weather Today

 I looked, I saw, I gave up.  No weather today.  It's all just yucky.

The entire Arctic Basin Vortex is bursting, and everything is headed to Europe.

I have no comment on what this means.  This is the death scene I had envisioned.  Hopefully, it now stays dead for the summer.  Sucks for Europe.

ps the video looks like a human cell bursting out with covid virus.

86 the plan

 

86 is 1930 rhyming slang for 'nix', and you don't see that word often.  This is what I said would happen.  Iran won the war, and the loser wants the winners to grovel before him.  Amazing.

Once upon a time from the West

 

The Arctic is in recharge, and we are getting a weak Pacific plume coming over us.  All I want now is for the warmies to be happy.  "This is climate change in action" for all of us.  Anyway, no big freezes for the next week, I can uncover the peas.

Yes, Virginia, the winter is over, if you just stay above this line.  Do not read on.

This is total Artie, a fantasy.  It does not show the most perfect Arctic Ice Machine Vortex yet.  It will just pop like a bubble.

**Rationality Insert**  OMG!

ps My birthday today, send money.

ps Yeah!  Never give up, never surrender.

Linux - when KDE screws up

 KDE can go along for some time, and then it doesn't.  I use the Wayland version, which is worse.  I used to reinstall everything, but now I don't.  The difficulty is that it is impossible to just clear the configuration, since it is spread all over the place.

So simply make a new user with Wayland, and eventually add all the things you lost.  Sucks a bit, but better than reinstalling the whole system.

The End of Jets

 

Trump is ending Nato.  Who cares?  Does Canada need a new fighter jet?  Nope.  Submarines?  Tanks?

ps I think the jets are like trying to swat a fly, with my reflexes.

Just when you thought it was safe to get into the water

 

New Arctic spills coming down on NA and Europe.

I'd make fun of Texas, but they are in a movement to turn over their politics.  

This just shows the unbelievably perfect Arctic Ice Machine.  Too bad nobody knows physics, or they'd influence the crap out of this.

Trump leaves the Sane Plane

 

This is no news whatsoever.  I just find it amazing that trumpy can go totally ga-ga and everybody listens to him like he is God.  Now, Iran is filling wheelbarrows with money to buy a hotdog, and the world cuts down the price of oil, in happy expectation.

Now, trumpy knows that he has no power to impose tariffs, and is fighting paying them back, so he imposes new tariffs.  Amazing.  But the big thing is that Iran presents the peace plan, and we know he will say:  "Crawl on your knees and worship me as  your God, send women."  They all decide to to dump every mine they have in the strait.  

With this an absolute certainty, why is the price of oil dipping on happiness?  Who knows.

Anyway, this is fun.  We can only hope that this is the 70's again with doubled gasoline, and extreme cold.  The worst is no gas and extreme cold.  California is processing all oil into jet fuel, and no gas.  Will all the refineries do the same?

Ha, ha, they'll get their wish, no oil for nobody.