June 30

12:55 Didn't know! (about rice and methane). But i believe rain water brings in oxygen and also oxygenates the existing water by splashing.

1:37 I has been theorized that a ship equipped with a sail impermeable to solar wind could literally sail through space, accelerating (but only away from Sun). It makes sense cause there is something that constantly flows away from Sun, besides light, we call solar wind. Solar wind blows at subluminical speeds ad is made of heavy particles thus is very similar to terrestrial wind. Light would contribute also because photons do have a moving mass and momentum that could be transferred to that sail.

There is no secret i binged watched in a couple of days the whole series "Another Life", don't know how many episodes and seasons, just kept advancing over the boring and embarrassing awkward scenes which make the bulk of the (or any) series and then hitting the Next Episode button until i reached the end with the fireworks and true welcoming and stuff.

There is a scene in the move i first thought it was the apex of stupidity embed in it (like in any Sci Fi movie with not enough real science advisors or not taking into account science advisors for gaining spectacularity) but then i thought to myself, this could be something very very intriguing. Take a look at this image and do not click on it.

Ok so you clicked and saw (the reaction of a normal person, ok, maybe a bit overreacting, to the fact) they are pushing the sale with their own lasers. There is a saying in Romania (Bucovina more exactly). Grab your own butt and try lifting yourself from the ground (one possible translation). The relativity. Give me one fixed something and i'll move the Universe. Whatever.

Since June 30 1905 we do not live in a classic world anymore, we now live in what i call a relative world and that's why we should apply the theory of relativity to the above... contraption.

The theory of relativity says the speed of light is the same no matter the motion of the observer or the source. So the light coming to the sails from their own lasers has should have the same speed as the light coming from a nearby star from the same direction. Something to think about for the weekend and weekends to come.

The reason the device could work is of course the improvised gold plated flimsy foil sails (saw that in the movie) would actually reflect the light from the lasers, behind, and gain momentum (but for that, it would have been easier if they pointed the lasers directly behind for God's sake, no need for reflecting sails).

But the photons, now going backwards, would have the same speed of light thus not loosing any momentum to the sails.

4:50 On 4th of July everything breaks. On the third about 10 years ago it was my trucks catalytic converter. Out of a sudden, after visiting a camera repair shop in Hilsboro, it started making this terrible noise. The ceramic part of it broke and made me scrambling to replace it. In the end i put a cheap aftermarket one that lasted until the next DEQ. Since then i had to replace it 4 times.

The bathroom fan timer. I installed years ago a timer instead of the old switch. On by just pressing a button, it was turning self off after 10 minutes. But since the dust situation got worse and worse (nobody hosing the building for years) the swithc broke. Was working indefinetely after turned on. Bringing in the dust by pumping air from inside out.

The heating pad. I had this electric heating pad that i was using in my bed for years. All of a sudden it broke last week. However i will not attempt to fix it. Not before 4th of July.

I was thinking last night. How come everything in here breaks before its time.

And today something else. The AC unit that dries the air that comes from the drier.

Years ago i gave up using the vent for the drier (when it went clogged due to water condensation due to the stupid design of the vents). I used instead a window AC for drying the air coming out of it and then re-heating it and recirculating it.  It dries faster, cleaner and with less energy. Guess what. Today it broke. Better said, the compressor would not start. Now i have to try and fix it (which i won't do, again before 4th of July) or replace it. In the meantime the price went from 115 to 179.

I hope it's the same and would readily fit in my design.

Now can you take a guess as why i don't want to try and fix anything with electric parts before 4th of July?

5:38 Guess what. It's 90 degrees outside. I took half of my laundry and put it dry in the balcony. Partly dried before i realized. It will be finished in a couple of hours.

5:45 Then guess what. The sprinklers started, precisely at 5:40. But they don't reach in the balcony. See how many coincidences with my recent posts? I believe they found a way of manipulating karma itself. Or getting in here when i'm  not home.