About PeterL
- Favorite Author:
- G. C. Edmondson, or someone else
- Favorite Book:
- The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream
- Biography:
- Born: April 13, 2704
Died: October 12, 3208
- Location:
- In one of the branches of the multiverse, but I don't know which one.
- Interests:
- Women
- Occupation:
- Time traveller and consulting philosopher
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PeterL on 03-17-2024 at 04:31 PM
I was looking at business stories in Google Business, and I was amazed to see several about Bitcoin increasing in value. While Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is the classic study of people getting carried away in investments. There have been plenty of more recent example. There have been several stock bubbles in the last few decades, and some people regard the U/S/ housing market as having been a bubble, e=even though it was government policy to increase the value of residential
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PeterL on 02-12-2024 at 04:14 PM
There were several articles in my news feed about the Atlantic Ocean currents collapsing. It will be a disaster when the ocean currents collapse, because that will mean that the Earth has stopped rotating. Apparently, some people are pushing the idea that ocean currents are caused by something other than the Coriolis effect acting on the oceans.
The ocean currents exist, because the water is not firmly attached to the solid Earth. At the Equator, the surface of the Earth is moving
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PeterL on 12-03-2023 at 01:44 PM
Plowshares into Swords
I was planning to write about the reforestation of North America after the last glacial maximum. It is still going on, as the early cold weather trees continue to die off and leave space for hardwoods and warm weather trees. The process is clear to anyone who has thought about it or observed that while Maine was known as the Pine Trees there have been getting replaced by hardwoods. But anyone cane write that post, so I decided to write about beating plowshares
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PeterL on 11-26-2023 at 07:34 PM
Poetic Mead
I was surviving and recovering from an automobile accident, when I received an email from an acquaintance who asked something about the saga. I have never written any sagas, so in my reply I suggested that I might put it in verse. I have never written any sagas, so I looked up the form, and I found this
https://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/resources...bbie-Potts.pdf
This link includes
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PeterL on 11-01-2023 at 04:13 PM
In the early part of the twentieth Century, there was competition among the manufacturers of motor vehicles as to which type would prevail. Gasoline, steam, and electric were all available, and each had its advantages and disadvantages. Because of the weight, time to recharge, and lack of recharging facilities. Electric vehicle became less popular, except for railroads, where the tracks allowed for easy access to power. The internal combustion engine became the general rule, because the makers of
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