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10:37:26 From tedpk to Everyone:
	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576525001900  Space sustainability rating: Designing a composite indicator to incentivize satellite operators to pursue long-term sustainability of the space environment
10:38:03 From Bob Primak to Everyone:
	I have one more little article on Space Debris and Climate Change which I wanted to get to.
10:38:49 From tedpk to Everyone:
	https://news.mit.edu/2025/deploying-practical-solution-space-debris-0514   Deploying a practical solution to space debris
	Researchers share the design and implementation of an incentive-based Space Sustainability Rating.
	Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics | Media Lab
	Publication Date:
	May 14, 2025
10:44:46 From Bob Primak to Everyone:
	MIT News Article about the Space Sustainability Rating
10:45:12 From Bob Primak to Everyone:
	https://news.mit.edu/2025/study-climate-change-will-reduce-number-satellites-safely-orbit-space-0310
10:46:59 From Bob Primak to Everyone:
	Spacedesk app https://www.spacedesk.net/
10:48:00 From Bob Primak to Everyone:
	MIT News Article about the Space Sustainability Rating  https://news.mit.edu/2025/deploying-practical-solution-space-debris-0514
10:49:17 From tedpk to Everyone:
	A New Monte-Carlo Model for the Space Environment https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.10430
10:59:06 From Bob Primak to Everyone:
	Climate change could make space debris problem worse https://news.mit.edu/2025/study-climate-change-will-reduce-number-satellites-safely-orbit-space-0310
10:59:07 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	MOCAT from MIT stands for:
	MIT Orbital Capacity Assessment Tool
11:19:23 From Drew King to Everyone:
	https://www.spacedesk.net  -- load it on windows
	https://deskreen.com  -- loads on windows, mac, linux
11:23:19 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	HDMI can bundle in audio along with video.
11:28:04 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	Cast might be video only, no audio.
11:30:46 From Dan Silber to Everyone:
	I bought an inexpensive HDMI hub that allows connecting up to four displays to one computer HDMI port. The limitation is that all of the 
        displays show the same thing, which can be a duplicate of my laptop screen or an extension of it. Very simple, but you do need to run HDMI cables.
11:33:06 From Mitch Wolfe to Everyone:
	I've been casting from a PC Chrome browser over wireless to a Roku stick on a TV for years. Video and audio both work.
11:36:48 From Mitch Wolfe to Everyone:
	You use Windows settings Add Bluetooth or other device to add the slave monitor.

10:36:05 From Steve Isenberg to Everyone:
	Might this space debris reduce sunlight on the planet?
10:37:01 From Steve Isenberg to Everyone:
	Maybe an ice age caused by space debris?
10:38:03 From Bob Primak to Everyone:
	The overall density of space debris, even at Kessler Event levels, isn't sufficient to significantly shade the earth. There's actually much more space between the objects than the animations in these videos depicts.
10:49:49 From Larry Wittig to Everyone:
	Maybe we shouldn't paint satellites.
	
10:56:50 From Bob Primak to Everyone:
	Paint is a small percentage of the mass of debris. But making everything magnetic might help.Wait for the videos on lasers.

10:08:26 From Jonathan Goode to Everyone:
	oil fired hydronic here	
10:08:50 From Shelly Lowenthal to Everyone:
	I updated 2 split units for standard AC but I was delivered 2 heat pump units.
10:09:16 From Rebecca to Everyone:
	I have gas
10:09:19 From Mitch Wolfe to Everyone:
	Converted to natural gas from oil. Forced hot water baseboards
10:09:28 From Shelly Lowenthal to Everyone:
	Still have gas and pellet stove heat, though
10:09:35 From Dan Silber to Everyone:
	I bought a house in 1986 that previously had been converted from resistance baseboard to a heat pump.
10:10:41 From Peter & Pam to Everyone:
	Converted to heat pump from oil/hydronic a year ago
10:11:37 From Bill Haley to Everyone:
	Propane Hydronic added heat pumps with 22 kW solar. 1895 house with 2007 addition	
10:16:02 From Judy & Mike Alexander to Everyone:
	My wife is a realtor.  no new-construction home she's listed has been all-electric.
10:28:26 From Bill Haley to Everyone:
	Aren't these McMansion's air conditioned?
11:05:04 From Rich Moffitt to Everyone:
	https://www.coolcalc.com/

10:08:44 From Steve Isenberg to Everyone:
	portableapps.com
	This is a Windows app.  It says it can work on MacOS using certain apps (CrossOver, Wineskin, WineBottler, PlayOnMac).  This from https://portableapps.com/download
10:15:07 From Bob Primak to Everyone:
	Portable Apps aren't the same as containers or sandboxed apps, like the Linux AppImages, Snaps or Flatpaks.
10:29:23 From Seth to Everyone:
	@Steve Isenberg, would you please send information on running portable apps on MacOS? [see https://portableapps.com/download]
10:32:38 From Bob Primak:
	PortableApps.com Platform 25.0: Introducing macOS Support
	Submitted by John T. Haller on April 7, 2023 - 1:22am
	PortableApps.com is proud to announce the PortableApps.com Platform 25.0 release. This release adds initial macOS support along with a helper app as well as improved stability and performance. Read on for all the details...(permalink)
	Existing Platform users can automatically update by clicking Help - Check for Updates.  https://portableapps.com/news/2023-04-07--portableapps.com-platform-25.0-released
	Download PortableApps.com Platform 30.0.2 - Free App Store & Menu
	your computer, without the computer™  https://portableapps.com/download
	Download macOS Helper 1.2 + PortableApps.com Platform
	The PortableApps.com macOS Helper app allows you to run the PortableApps.com Platform and many of our apps on your Intel or Apple Silicon Mac. It installs the PortableApps.com Platform to your local ~/Documents directory. It can run the platform from there or from a removable drive. It can even run from a removable drive without needing a local install. More supported locations are coming shortly. You'll need to unquarantine the unsigned package as detailed in the instructions below.  https://portableapps.com/download/macos
10:41:06 From Seth to Everyone:
	Thanks.  @Steve Isenberg was mentioning other solutions as well.  Not sure the state of the MacOS helper as it’s last update was in 2023.
10:42:36 From Bob Primak to Everyone:
	There are portable apps available for MacOS from a variety of sources. I'm not sure this particular site or app ecosystem is still being developed for Mac.
10:46:20 From Bob Primak to Everyone:
	Be CAREFUL when buying large-capacity flash drives or cheap SSDs on Amazon and other sites! They often are rigged and do not have their stated internal components -- the capacity is reported incorrectly through the device firmware.
	9 Ways to Test Real Drive Capacity (and Spot a Fake)  https://www.makeuseof.com/ways-to-test-real-drive-capacity-spot-a-fake/
10:56:23 From Steve Isenberg to Everyone:
	https://www.makeuseof.com/no-login-no-fees-free-movie-sites/

10:35:21 From John Rudy to Everyone:
	and a bike path is not limited to bikes. so there are parents with toddlers, etc.
	
10:46:41 From Larry Wittig to Everyone:
	Europe is somewhat limited to Type I ebikes with a max speed of 25 kph ~16 mph. They mix with pedestrains not road traffic as the us.

10:05:19 From John Rudy to Everyone:
	ohn Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley invented the first working transistors at Bell Labs, the point-contact transistor in 1947.
10:13:57 From Steve Isenberg to Everyone:
	Here is that link to Consumer Reports: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/hearing-aids/best-and-worst-hearing-aid-brands-and-retailers-a1115767262/
10:35:11 From Steve Isenberg to Everyone:
	I will be posting George’s slides on the group site (along with an AI-generated meeting summary) later today.  Site: https://LCTG.toku.us
11:15:53 From Steve Isenberg to Everyone:
	I have posted links directly to the videos that George is showing today, on: https://LCTG.toku.us under April 2.
11:23:33 From John Rudy to Everyone:
	But can I really believe a 30 minute Costco ad	
11:27:55 From Drew King to Everyone:
	I don't need them but if I did I'd get dual use devices that are good for music/tv and hearing
11:49:18 From tedpk to Everyone:
	https://www.mdhearingaid.com/	
11:57:40 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	One of the videos did mention one model that went to 16KHz.

10:12:06 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	Per the Bruce Willis drama, here is my version of the same idea …	
	http://moultonlava.blogspot.com/2005/10/chaotic-flights-of-fancy.html	
10:13:47 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	You want nudge it sideways, perpendicular to its direction of motion, so as to miss hitting the earth.
10:16:38 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	Apophos?
10:24:54 From tedpk to Everyone:
	https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/torino_scale.html
10:31:37 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	Mog Liu is a YouTube content creator known for her videos that explore various aspects of Chinese culture, history, and current events. Her content is often presented in an engaging and accessible way, aiming to bridge cultural gaps and provide insights into China for a Western audience.
10:34:08 From tedpk to Everyone:
	https://catalina.lpl.arizona.edu/faq/how-often-do-asteroids-strike-earth
10:38:40 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	Meantime, there is a prediction for a recurring nova tomorrow.

10:05:12 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	This is Derek Muller, host and presenter of Veritasium.
10:20:24 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	ThreeBlueOneBrown is a mathematical YouTube channel hosted by Grant Sanderson.  He is world class in his genre.
10:29:49 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	Derek Muller is world class in his genre.
	Muller is more focused on science.
10:40:39 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	This video presents Sabine Hossenfelder in her emerging role as an Opinion Leader after having been a presenter of technical or academic  work in Particle Physics.
10:55:18 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	Arbitrage wins by being the first to exploit ephemeral information.
10:56:22 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	Frontier Models.
10:57:56 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	Perplexity is an agent that accessed multiple AI sources for you.
10:59:05 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	The algorithms that were devised to solve Protein Folding can be adapted to many other complex problems.
11:04:39 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	Sabine exposes identified examples of bad science, from which one might cavalierly extrapolate that virtually all science is collectively unreliable.
11:26:42 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

	
10:13:01 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	Non-Markovian Do-Over ~ The State of Knowledge increases with each iteration.	
10:38:20 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	The fact that that time ticks at different rates, as a function of the strength of the local gravitational field also explains why Bell’s Inequality does not hold in our cosmos.  Bell tacitly adopted Newton’s simplifying assumption that time ticks at the same rate everywhere and everyone.  Dispense with that unrealistic simplifying assumption, and the mathematics of deriving Bell’s Inequality gets thrown into a cocked hat.	
10:50:24 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	As I see it, a MultiVerse is an Epic Poem.	
10:51:33 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	And the Speed of Light is the same as the Speed of Gravity (and hence the Speed of Causality).
11:02:26 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	Gotta love Dr. Becky.
11:03:19 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	Grant Sanderson is great, too.  He does math topics.
11:04:20 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	Bell System Science Series.
11:04:39 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	Our Mr. Sun.
11:09:41 From tedpk to Everyone:
	https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x579m0o
11:17:23 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	This is Matt Dowd on SpaceTime from PBS Digital Studios.
11:20:23 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	Henri Poincaré pioneered Perturbation Theory, laying the foundations for Chaos Theory.
11:23:45 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	Science writer, Ivars Peterson, wrote  Newton's Clock: Chaos in the Solar System, published by Freeman in 1993.
11:30:27 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	That’s Don Lincoln.
11:38:16 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	Research and Development is slow and costly.
11:40:14 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	After inventing a Cow, you now have a Cash Cow.
11:47:44 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	Kind of like an Escher graphic.

10:08:04 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	“Nature vs. Nurture”
10:08:16 From Judy & Mike Alexander to Everyone:
	E.O.Wilson was a Lexingtonian
10:28:43 From Harry Forsdick to Everyone:
	At the end, Wilson lived at Brookhaven in Lexington
11:27:59 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
	Humans have uniquely adopted Crime and Punishment as a formal method and mechanism of socio-cultural regulation.  Mathematically speaking, that’s an infelicitous invention, as it promotes state-sponsored violence under the color of law, along with political drama, conflict, and systemic injustice.  Did EO Wilson ever opine on that?
11:45:50 From tedpk to Everyone:
	•This bus only takes dogs
	•We Love Animals
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	•We Love Animals is a part of Newsner, a digital news platform. We tell inspiring and heartwarming stories from all around on the world.
	•On We Love Animals we love all animals! We share stories to promote kindness and compassion toward animals. We share videos of fascinating wildlife to show you their beauty. We tell stories about rehabilitation, adoption, fostering, and rescue.
	•https://youtu.be/huHngYM2UoE?si=tjuXW-AOOJd9lBvY
11:46:16 From S David Kahan to Everyone:
	https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a63332985/amino-acids-wrong-order/