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Sculpting some vertical gap filler pieces to mask the gap between wall pieces.

Just got off a Zoom call with Dr. Aubrey De Grey... or rather... I happened to be on a call with him on it... Was a fairly small group of people but Interesting discussion none the less. Reminded me that I have to get involved and be active in the field... got to think of a way to contribute more. After all, once aging is solved, I've got time for all the other things. It's the No.1 bottleneck.

So according to some studies from last century it's been known for a long time that with increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, its impact on the climate diminish exponentially. In other words... going back to pre-industrial levels of CO2 in the atmosphere will only have a minimal impact on global warming. 

Also... if CO2 concentration falls below a certain threshold, plants stop growing which basically means the end for life on earth. Makes sense since The C in CO2 is what plants use to turn light into matter.

According to geological studies CO2 concentration in the distant past has been a lot higher than it is now. To the tune of thousands of parts per million... and evidently there was no runaway climate effect since life flourished during those periods... 

It's been a busy couple of days without much actual work getting done. But managed to make progress on another part for the PBR crypt dungeon set.

Finally got to playing around with chatGPT today. Gotta say it's impressive the way it talks, formulates answers and the way it is possible to ask it followup questions n have what feels like a conversation. Ran into limitations pretty quickly though and one can clearly feel the biases and limitations in the data set it was trained on when talking to it about "controversial" subjects or "fringe" scientific concepts. It's not thinking for itself and has the same talking points as left leaning mainstream media platforms. Still have only seen a very small part of what it can do really so will keep coming back to it. ​Surely it's going to be very a useful tool in a lot of situations... I'm just not exactly sure what they are for me just yet.

A little more progress on PBR crypt building blocks.

Substance is doing the heavy lifting of the texturing. I really want to get to a place where I don't need to do any texture painting manually. Still need to learn the software better to have more control.

Great summary of breakthrough tech developments in 2022 by Cathie Wood from Arc Invest. The market sentiment and fundamentals have not been this disconnected in 40 years. 

Started sculpting the next part of the PBR crypt dungeon set today. It all still seems a bit random. Doesn't really look like rock. Need to improve my rock sculpting tool set. 

Starting on a new stylized dungeon set. This time using a PBR workflow and Substance Painter. The plan is to make a bunch of modular pieces that are universally usable to build wall systems but also work as stand along pieces or ceilings and floor platforms. Hope I'm not biting off more than I can chew here.

Listened to an interview during work today with Emad Mostaque, the CEO and Co-Founder of Stability AI. Have a feeling this is another one of those things that I will regret not jumping onto... really SHOULD look more into it. Like he said... Drop everything and get into this now!  

Just want to make a note of a website here that has great animation reference data for all the Smash Bros characters so I can find it again. It's called ultimateframedata.

Construction the new size eyeball and swivel attachment.

Trying a new method for creating the eyelashes and eyebrow mould in the process of adapting them to the new eye position and size . 

Updated the last part of the face mould.

This is an after thought on the hollow earth random shower thought of 2020.

In 1969, Nasa launched its second manned mission to the moon: Apollo 12. One of the objectives of this mission was to learn more about what is below the surface. For that purpose the astronauts planted seismometers before their departure back to earth. The idea is that when a known mass impacts the moon, the resulting seismic data can be measured and analyzed to draw conclusions about the moons composition. 

After their departure, the Apollo 12 astronauts intentionally sent their ascent stage module hurtling back into the moon. It impacted the surface and the resulting data was a bit of a surprise. The moon "rang like a bell" for nearly an hour. Which is not expected of a solid body. One of the resulting theories is that the moon might be "hollow"... if the moon might be hollow... what other heavenly bodies might be hollow? 

According to the electric universe theory, only a single force is necessary to explain both magnetism and gravity. 

Where the nucleus in an atom is slightly shifted towards the center of an object, creating a dipole field. Since the electric force is so strong, this distortion would only need to be minute to create a weak force like that of gravity.

As a result in larger bodies of matter we get spherical arrangements with one pole facing out and one facing inwards... and as we know... like poles repel... 

Asteroid Bennu was the target of the Osiris Rex mission in 2020. The spacecraft touched down on its surface and there were many strange discoveries that lead scientists to believe that it is likely hollow. Another source. 

Where ever I look, a common theme seems to be that we tend to be wrong about things... and the one thing required to make progress in any given field is an open mind and the willingness to unlearn a lot of what we thought we knew to be true... which seems to be rare amongst experts (who are the disseminators and gate keepers of information and "knowledge").

Wal Thornhill introduced a new paradigm. A Theory of Everything: The Electric Universe. It correctly predicts and explains discoveries in the space age that baffle astronomers adhering to the gravitational model of the universe. For example, Thornhill specifically predicted the unexpected results of the Deep Impact mission to comet Tempel 1 in October 2001, almost four years before the event. He was alone in successfully predicting what would be seen beneath the clouds of Saturn’s moon Titan... etc.

• Was there a big bang? Why would there have been?
• Is Einstein’s Relativity holding up? Questionable.
• Is the Sun really a thermonuclear fusion reactor which will eventually run out of fuel and burn out? Or is it getting its energy from another source?
• Are there black holes or are our telescopes taking photos of plasmoids?
• What about dark matter and dark energy? They have been theorized to exist because we can not explain what we observe in the cosmos without them using only the gravitational model of the universe. In an electric universe there is no need for them.

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As William of Ockham said: “With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.” Out of the theories we currently have the Electric Universe seems to be closest to the truth of reality. 

Questions I want to understand the answer to now are:

• What keeps planets in orbit according to the electric universe theory?
• How do seismologists currently come to the conclusion that the earth is solid?