Wednesday, February 28, 2018
No Objective World
Once there was a monk who specialized in the Buddhist precepts, and he kept to them all his life. Once when he was walking at night, he stepped on something. It made a squishing sound, and he imagined he had stepped on an egg-bearing frog.
This caused him no end of alarm and regret, in view of the Buddhist precept against taking life, and when he finally went to sleep that night he dreamed that hundreds of frogs came demanding his life.
The monk was terribly upset, but when morning came he looked and found that what he stepped on was an overripe eggplant. At that moment his feeling of uncertainty suddenly stopped, and for the first time he realized the meaning of the saying that “there is no objective world.” Then he finally knew how to practice Zen.
https://highexistence.com/7-zen-stories-that-give-you-a-glimpse-of-enlightenment/
“Dominick is good,” said Del Fierro, who joined MMAjunkie Radio ahead of Saturday’s CFFC 64 event, for which he’s heading up matchmaking and operations for the San Diego show. “You guys have seen him around – he stays positive, he does his thing. Right now, he’s just taking care of his body. He’s training – not 100 percent, full time – but he’s here training and just kind of letting his body heal. “With that plantar fasciitis, that seems to be the one of the most complicated injuries he’s ever had, and I say that because anybody that’s had that injury, or that condition, it just doesn’t go away. And the only thing that really helps it is rest.”
http://mmajunkie.com/2017/03/coach-del-fierro-says-ex-champ-dominick-cruz-is-letting-body-heal-and-wants-title-shot-next
Monday, February 26, 2018
The Nicobar pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica) is a pigeon found on small islands and in coastal regions from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, east through the Malay Archipelago, to the Solomons and Palau. It is the only living member of the genus Caloenas and the closest living relative of the extinct dodo
The Magician Tarot points to a new opportunities
Calla Lily Fantasy Bouquet
When The Magician appears in a Tarot card reading it is a sign that you have all the skills and abilities you need to be successful.
The universe is aligning to bring positive changes your way.
This Major Arcana trump card shows you that you must use your intellect, concentration and willpower to make things happen.
The Magician usually signifies a time in your life when you have the power to manifest the outcome you want.
If it is referring to other people in your life it usually refers to someone you can learn from whose ability and wisdom will impress you.
In terms of money and career, The Magician Tarot points to a new opportunities presenting themselves.
They will require you to make a brave move and to put your original ideas into practice. Play your cards close to your chest with certain people as The Magicians never give away their secrets.
It’s a good time for promotions or starting a new business venture, you will be feeling powerful and self-assured. Big things are coming your way!
You might be presented with an opportunity to mentor someone or be mentored by someone who will give you the benefit of their experience. Your finances will be improving or you will have a great opportunity to make extra money when this card appears.
https://www.thetarotguide.com/the-magician
Unripe Carnelian Cherry Fruits - Each fruit hangs from the twigs from a slender fruit stalk
https://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/plants.html
Our Sun is but one of a collection of about 200 billion stars known as the Milky Way, around which it revolves once every ¼ billion years or so, taking its retinue of planets with it
Above is a photo of our own Milky Way Galaxy in infrared taken edge-on from within. The Milky Way is 100,000 light years from end to end, 10,000 light years thick at the center, and 3000 light years thick in the spiral arms. Our solar system resides half-way to the outer edge on one of those spiral arms. A light year is the distance light travels in a year, or six trillion miles. So our galaxy is 600 quadrillion miles wide, approximately. Credit E. L. Wright (UCLA), The COBE Project, DIRBE, NASA; APOD Jan. 30, 2000
http://www.myastrologybook.com/galactic-center-great-central-Sun.htm
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Sunday, February 25, 2018
X-rays are generated by BH-star binary systems from a thermalized accretion disk. This process produces soft (low energy) X-ray radiation. In some systems, the high energy emission is much harder then that of a thermal disk and dominated by synchrotron X-rays emitted from shocked gas in the jet.
The Chandra X-ray Observatory caught two waves of hot, X-ray emitting gas emanating from the supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 5195. Image via NASA/CXC/Univ of Texas/E Schlegel et al.
Black holes are formed from collapsed supermassive stars. If a black hole ends up completely isolated then it will be very black. However, many stars are binaries. Moreover, within dense globular clusters stars can often pass very close to other stars. Just as with stars, when a black hole is near enough to another star it can collect matter from it. Black holes are incredibly compact objects with radii of only about 3km per solar mass. As matter falls onto such a compact object it will accelerate to high speeds and also be constrained to travel through a small volume of space, causing it to have a high chance of colliding with other matter falling into the black hole. This process creates an orbiting accretion disc of matter spiraling into the black hole. This matter is travelling so quickly and compressed so much that it is raised to enormous temperatures, so high that it emits a significant amount of energy as high energy EM radiation such as x-rays. Indeed, this process is by far the most efficient known process of converting matter to energy (an order of magnitude more efficient than nuclear fusion).
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/24958/how-can-a-black-hole-emit-x-rays
In the process of photosynthesis, phytoplankton release oxygen into the water. Half of the world's oxygen is produced via phytoplankton photosynthesis. The other half is produced via photosynthesis on land by trees, shrubs, grasses, and other plants.
" They are so small as to be invisible, but taken together, actually dwarf massive creatures like whales. Plankton make up 98 percent of the biomass of ocean life. The most obvious difference between phytoplankton and zooplankton is that zooplankton is an animal while phytoplankton is actually a plant. Diatoms and algae are two forms of phytoplankton that are commonly seen. Tiny fish or crustaceans like krill are examples of zooplankton "
The Euthyphro Dilemma
The Euthyphro dilemma is introduced with the question, " Does God command the good because it is good, or is it good because it is commanded by God? "
Each of the two possibilities identified in this question are widely agreed to present intractable problems for divine command theory.
If God commands the good because it is good, then he bases his decision what to command on what is already morally good.
Moral goodness, then, must exist before God issues any commands, otherwise he wouldn’t command anything.
If moral goodness exists before God issues any commands, though, then moral goodness is independent of God’s commands; God’s commands aren’t the source of morality, but merely a source of information about morality.
Morality itself is not based in divine commands.
Suppose, then, that the divine commands theorist takes the second horn of the dilemma, asserting that the good is good because it is commanded by God.
On this view, nothing is good until God commands it.
This problem is exacerbated when we consider that God, being omnipotent, could have commanded anything at all.
He could, for example, have commanded polygamy, slavery, and the killing of the over-50s.
If divine command theory is true, then had he done so then these things would be morally good. That doesn’t seem right, though; even if God had commanded these things they would still be morally bad. Divine command theory, then, must be false.
http://moralphilosophy.info/normative-ethics/deontology/divine-command-theory/the-euthyphro-dilemma/
Galaxies Are Mostly Empty Space
The Colliding Spiral Galaxies of Arp 274
When two galaxies collide, the stars that compose them usually do not. This is because galaxies are mostly empty space and, however bright, stars only take up only a small fraction of that space. But during the collision, one galaxy can rip the other apart gravitationally, and dust and gas common to both galaxies does collide. If the two galaxies merge, black holes that likely resided in each galaxy center may eventually merge. Because the distances are so large, the whole thing takes place in slow motion -- over hundreds of millions of years.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/multimedia/arp274.html
A Thousand Paths To Comfort
In the book, A Thousand Paths To Comfort, by David Baird, there is a quote from "Orson Welles", which I don't understand the implication of it:
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Well, when it is going to be a four-intimate dinner, it means that there must be four people! it's obvious. Then what does it mean when he say "unless there are three other people"? If there are not three other people it would not be a four-dinner!
He lays out enough food for an intimate dinner for four people -- and then eats it himself (because he's dining alone). It's like ordering the Chateaubriand for Two ... just for yourself. :)
The doctor was, quite amusingly, implying that Mr Welles was eating four times as much food as he should. He was eating an intimate dinner for four every time he ate alone. So he advised him to only have a meal for four when there were three others with him, and have a meal for one when alone.
Oh, now it's quite clear. Thanks a lot both :)
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/an-intimate-dinner-for-four.2509520/
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