Das Raum Schiff Erde ist ein Kongress für Digitale Philosophie, Experience Design und Netzkultur. Nächster Flugtermin liegt aus zur Einsichtnahme bei Alpha Centauri.
Dr. Mae Jemison, MD, the first black woman in space and first actual astronaut to appear on a Star Trek show, one of the very few people on this planet of whom two pictures can be posted depicting them doing their job on a spaceship with entirely different contexts.
2018 was the fourth hottest year since modern recordkeeping
began. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration work together to track temperatures around the world and
study how they change from year to year. For decades, the overall global temperature
has been increasing.
Over the long term, world temperatures are warming, but each
individual year is affected by things like El Niño ocean patterns and specific
weather events.
1.5 degrees
Globally, Earth’s temperature was more than 1.5 degrees
Fahrenheit warmer than the average from 1951 to 1980.
The Record
139 years
Since 1880, we can put together a consistent
record of temperatures around the planet and see that it was much colder in the
late-19th century.
Before 1880, uncertainties in tracking global temperatures were too large.
Temperatures have increased even faster since the 1970s, the result of
increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Five Hottest
The last five years have been the hottest in the modern
record.
6,300 Individual
Observations
Scientists from NASA use data from 6,300 weather stations
and Antarctic research stations, together with ship- and buoy-based
observations of sea surface temperatures to track global temperatures.
The Consequences
605,830 swimming pools
As the planet warms, polar ice is melting at an accelerated
rate. The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets lost about 605,830 Olympic
swimming pools (400 billion gallons) of water between 1993 and 2016.
8 inches
Melting ice raises sea levels around the world. While ice
melts into the ocean, heat also causes the water to expand. Since 1880, sea
levels around the world have risen approximately 8 inches.
71,189 acres burned
One symptom of the warmer climate is that fire seasons burn
hotter and longer. In 2018, wildfires burned more than 71,189 acres in the U.S.
alone.
46% increase in CO2 levels
CO2 levels have increased 46 percent since the late 19th
Century, which is a dominant factor causing global warming.
“… solving the right problems and iteration and always think of...
“… solving the right problems and iteration and always think of this as a large system, and making sure we solve the true underlying problems and not just the symptoms.” /21st Century Design by Don Norman - Interaction19 videos
The Eastern District of Texas
is home to a crooked court that is in the pocket of patent trolls,
handing down ludicrous rulings in favor of the trolls, whose “head
offices” are tiny, unoccupied offices in empty, dusty office buildings,
the rent on which entitles patent trolls to claim that their rights are
being infringed in the demense of the Eastern District’s terrible
judges.
A report in Macrumors cites “five sources familiar with the
matter” and claims that Apple is now planning to shutter all the Apple
Stores within the Eastern District, replacing them with a giant store in
the Galleria Dallas, just over the line from the Eastern District,
reported to be opening on April 13. The closures were officially confirmed by Apple in a statement to Techcrunch.
Such a move would help Apple avoid the Eastern District’s jurisdiction,
escaping the residency requirement that cases be heard “where the
defendant has committed acts of infringement and has a regular and
established place of business.”
"Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity — in all this..."
“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity — in all this vastness — there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It’s been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”
"was man unter einem masselosen Teilchen verstehe, das um sich selbst rotiere, ob nicht vielmehr der..."
“was man unter einem masselosen Teilchen verstehe, das um sich selbst rotiere, ob nicht vielmehr der Raum um dieses Teilchen, um diesen Punkt herumwirble und wir und die Welt vielleicht mit, wie auf einem wahnwitzigen Karussell um eigentlich nichts”
Leibniz Maps. More than 1.000 hi-quality scans of historical maps provided under cc0 by Leibniz-Instituts für Länderkunde e.V. Browse the XML metadata on a web page, show the bounds on the embedded Chronoscope, and jump to the hi-res scans.
Before (a)social media, the web used to be social. Each and every Web 2.0 site used to offer its info pebbles also as an RSS feed. RSS (really simple syndication) is a standardized XML format (extensible markup language) that an RSS reader app can import and display. Some of this information infrastructure has survived and can be revived by the web app RSS Enterprise on this page.
The primary use case is Mastodon. But as it turns out, RSS feeds provided by at least BlueSky, tumblr, WordPress, SpeakerDeck, Pinterest, and Wordpress can also be displayed here.
For Mastodon in specific, there are a few special features:
You can click a Mastodon user to display her feed. Try @mprove or @chronohh
You can drag any RSS feed URL from any web page to the cover above and drop it into the river. This does also work for Mastodon users and hash tags, as well as for blogspot, pinterest, substack, and tumblr. The menu command Edit > Paste of an RSS address is also possible, but less exciting.
Of course, you can always fiddle around with the parameters in the browser’s address bar:
RSS Enterprise parameter info
rss=
The feed url or a dropable blog URL Support for multiple Mastodon hash tags; e.g. get the combined tags #ComputerHistory #HistoryOfComputers #HistoryOfComputing #chm with this RSS Enterprise link
rss2=
A second feed to be displayed; but no support for multiple tags
roundrobin
Optional parameter to flip-flop between two feeds instead of sorting them chronologically
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