This is pretty cool ....

[Gingerbread Demon]

Melbourne woman Sarah Spencer hacked a knitting machine and made a map of the stars

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This is her from a Linux conference in Australia

Here's her star map

https://www.space.com/41683-hacked-knitting-machine-builds-stellar-map.html

 

[XCV330]

that is indeed pretty cool

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

that is indeed pretty cool

I'm just fascinated by the use of old tech like the knitting machine. Who would have thought you could do half the stuff she has done? It's amazing what old tech can do.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Wow, that's amazingly detailed. If she could produce more of these and sell them, I think they'd be a hit. I know astronomers would love having something like this to display for the public at events.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Being created by an Australian, I'm kind of surprised the celestial south pole isn't at the top. Very cool even if mostly pointless but then aren't most things.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Wow, that's amazingly detailed. If she could produce more of these and sell them, I think they'd be a hit. I know astronomers would love having something like this to display for the public at events.

She has an Etsy store I think

 

[Santaman]

Nice.

 

[Gary7]

On a related note (maybe we can turn this into a "pretty cool" science stuff topic):

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It begs the question: Will medical science advance far enough to "turn on" a gene responsible for abilities such as this?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

On a related note (maybe we can turn this into a "pretty cool" science stuff topic):

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It begs the question: Will medical science advance far enough to "turn on" a gene responsible for abilities such as this?

Possibly but then you are introducing something that wasn't there before and the chances of unintended effects.

 

[Gary7]

Possibly but then you are introducing something that wasn't there before and the chances of unintended effects.

Yes, long term studies are important. Ms. Henner seems to be holding up just fine. But it may take a certain kind of psychology in order to handle it. Some people might end up struggling with this kind of ability. There's also the matter of being unable to forget... things you really want to forget.

 

[XCV330]

I'd rather have the ability to turn off memories, to be honest.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

There are people who have memories like this that can remember every event in their lives. It's what the show Unforgettable was based on that kind of person. I guess people like that learn to cope with life.

 

[Gary7]

Anybody here ever learn much about the Sumerians in school? In a social studies class I had in 8th grade, we learned a lot about the Mayans and Incas. Very little about the Sumerians. And yet... they were a very significant group, the creators of many inventions that reverberated throughout human history--adopted and improved upon. First written language too. And yet... why so little taught about them? Well, curiously enough, it looks like there are some stories and accounting in the Christian Bible that are remarkably similar (such as a Moses like figure, and the enormous flood that nearly wiped out humanity). It does beg the question--have some Christians felt threatened by Sumerian history and actively worked at suppressing teachings about them?

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[Gingerbread Demon]

Anybody here ever learn much about the Sumerians in school? In a social studies class I had in 8th grade, we learned a lot about the Mayans and Incas. Very little about the Sumerians. And yet... they were a very significant group, the creators of many inventions that reverberated throughout human history--adopted and improved upon. First written language too. And yet... why so little taught about them? Well, curiously enough, it looks like there are some stories and accounting in the Christian Bible that are remarkably similar (such as a Moses like figure, and the enormous flood that nearly wiped out humanity). It does beg the question--have some Christians felt threatened by Sumerian history and actively worked at suppressing teachings about them?

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This guy rocks..

Deprogrammed soldier too. Double rocks

 

[publiusr]

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I'm just fascinated by the use of old tech like the knitting machine. Who would have thought you could do half the stuff she has done? It's amazing what old tech can do.

Punch cards were used before the computer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom

 

[Doom Shepherd]

This guy rocks..

Deprogrammed soldier too. Double rocks

Started off interesting, got increasingly whackadoo towards the end. Sitchin was incompetent.

Pretty much every culture in the world has flood myths. Why? because pretty much every culture originated in a FLOODPLAIN.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Started off interesting, got increasingly whackadoo towards the end. Sitchin was incompetent.

Pretty much every culture in the world has flood myths. Why? because pretty much every culture originated in a FLOODPLAIN.

I know but the beginning to middle of the video seemed OK. It did get crazy toward the end..

That channel has some rather dubious content though.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Pretty much every culture in the world has flood myths. Why? because pretty much every culture originated in a FLOODPLAIN.

Especially in Mesopotamia, which is where the Epic of Gilgamesh originated. The portion of the "fertile crescent" between the Tigris and Euphrates was always flooding and washing away the inhabitants' mud-brick buildings, which made for quite a pessimist outlook on life. At least the Egyptians had access to stone and higher ground.