Sawyer's popular Real-Worldtm video game Moon Dog was developed using NeosVR. Before it was removed, the Moon Dog profile read: "You and your dog are among the members of a covert group, outmaneuvering entrenched monopolies, forming alliances with other independents, and using net-positive systems to power your bots, with surplus energy sold to neighboring microgrids."
His sister Cat followed his success two years later with the release of the Cat Star mod. She extended the Moon Dog base with her own tales of space and exploration, astronomy and astrophysics. Both apps became a gateway to a whole other level of competition. Not just planning and design, but actual implementation. Players became owners of bots, hired surfers, the whole 9 yards.
That's why Cat Star and Moon Dog were shut down - too much of a threat. Everything was decentralized. There was no mechanism for control. But that's how the most successful players liked it, the open and organic nature of their code allowed it to morph, survive and thrive.
Mining for moon drops https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/historys-largest-mining-operation-is-about-to-begin/ar-BBY7fU8Using electrodes coated with carbon nanotubes, MIT developed a low energy process that "captures carbon dioxide from any concentration, including 400 parts per million, and allows its release into any carrier stream, including 100 percent CO2." https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191025170815.htm
Early cave art may be depicting constellations. The famous 'Vulture Stone' appears on pillars at Göbekli Tepe. It appears to be a date stamp for 10950 BC ± 250 yrs. The carving is thought by some to depict the Taurid meteor stream.
Data storage in molecules, not DNA Storing info in molecules, for millions of years
I wanted to create a vehicle for all the great science articles that the internet makes so immediately accessible. A framework from which the interested reader could dig deeper into something recently discovered.
The other goal has been to give the written medium a visual edge that would allow it to compete with the enticements of online video, without departing from the contemplative nature of reading. Allowing for both short attention spans, and expansions into greater depth without leaving the comfortable shell of each narrative. There's a path for the reader who want to only spend 10 minutes within the work, and another for individuals who will return often and build upon the story's connected resources.
Each chapter is a meditation, an unrushed, prolonged thought grounded in each author's experiences. Taking concepts from the present, future and past, then blending in nuance and textures to create a new image. I'll mull over something for a long time, like did fertility issues lead to the demise of Neanderthal, and what was it like to observe the transition, and what of the women who could only bear female children with these earlier inhabitants?
"I appreciate any author who writes with a local vernacular. After that, I am having difficulty separating style from subject matter. Here are a few authors that jump off my list of books read: Elmer Kelton, Rick Bragg, Smokey Yunick (his wife may have transcribed his recorded stories), and Bonnie Jo Campbell." - Grandpa Larry