Final Match Settled

It is very cold here in England, where I live it's -7 °c outside. There are many changes happening and many things to debate about. Right now we know the two teams that will play in the final to win the world cup. It will be Argentina or France. 

Before 6pm on Sunday we will know if Argentina or France are the winners of the world cup. The match will start at 3pm. I think I will root for France because they're close to us and I eat a lot of french food; crème Brulé, baguette sandwiches, croissants, things like that. Plus I have been to France several times before. I wonder if there will be a stalemate and they go all the way to the penalty stage. Sunday will be very interesting. 

Red Dwarf Habitat

We are going around a star known as a yellow dwarf. Our sun star lasts for about 10 billion years then it will die but it is half way through its life already. Red Dwarf stars are smaller than our sun star but they last a lot longer because they use up their fuel at a much slower rate, they are a lot more dim so planets need to be a lot closer to the star to be warm enough for water to be a liquid on the surface. The problem is the planet would need to be so close to the Red Dwarf Star that it would be tidally locked to the star so one side of the planet faces the star and the other side faces away into deep space continuously, like the far side of the moon does with the earth. 

I thought to myself that if the planet was going around a gas giant like Jupiter then it would be tidally locked to the gas giant planet instead of the star and be protected by the planet's magnetic field from powerful solar storms. 

The planet sized moon could be the size of Mars and not even have its own magnetic field. It would have a few days of the month of darkness. But the planet would be a very safe place to live I think. 

Twitter in my world

I noticed over the past month that Elon has been working on the back end side of twitter and stopping the bots spamming out Twitter feeds and stuff like that. When he gets to the front end development of twitter, I have some ideas. I know what I want from the platform.

If I was to design the twitter app it would look different to the way it is now. 

The top half of the twitter app would have a fixed screen, the whole app would reconfigure itself at the press of a button. The fixed screen would allow you to watch videos on twitter and scroll through the feed that the same time. There would also be a button below the screen that turns it into a virtual hand held games console, it would look a bit like the old game boy. 

If twitter wasn't in game mode, the screen would show  your stats like how many people are looking at your profile, between the stats it would show the twitter logo with scan lines and slight TV static. The screen would also allow you to connect to your youtube app or netflix app so you would be tweeting and reading while you're watching videos at the same time. If you play a video in your feed you can create a queue of videos that play in sequence one after the other on the screen and still scroll through your feed at the same time. If you get bored of the feed, just press the play button and it would turn your phone into a hand held games console with at least 5 fun retro games to play. 

As you scroll and press on people's tweets, it would make paper ruffling sound effects and when you press the play game mode button, it would play the sound of a panel sliding across. 

I'm not saying people would like this design feature, I only represent myself. 

Jolly Christmas

I think it will be a merry jolly Christmas this year. A happy uplifting super Christmas. Lots of festivity....

No really, It's going to be a jolly happy Christmas. 

No really, it will. Chestnuts roasting in air-fryer and music. I have a playlist here just for Christmas. Christmas Playlist. I'm not young and I'm not old, I don't know what music old people like; Hip Hop replacement music 😂 ? 

If a musician makes poor quality music track, they can add bells to it and release it again as a Christmas single. I think my Christmas drink might just be a tequila this year. 

England are out

I was hopeful that England would win the world cup but we lost to France in the Quarter finals. They played very well but the French won. We'll have to try again in the next world cup. The quarter finals were hair raising, half the games went all the way to the  penalty shootout stage. The final four teams that will play in the Semi-finals later in the week are settled. 

The four teams that will play in the Semi-finals will be Argentina, Croatia, France and Morocco. By Wednesday night we will know the two teams that will play in the finals. 

Common Thought

A very common thought inside my head is a benign hydro electric power generation system. I think wind is a waste of time, they spin for a very long time just to offset the carbon dioxide gas produced to make them before they are beneficial. This is how my benign hydro electric power system would work. 

Along the river banks there would be drains that flow into aqueducts that are below ground. The aqueduct would zigzag down the valley, following the path of the river but it would be below the ground. At certain points the subterranean aqueducts would flow through underground water wheels and cause them to spin, this would generate electricity. Then the water would flow out of the aqueduct through a drain back into the river downstream. 

There would also be butterfly valves in the ducts to stop the flow of water if power wasn't needed. The mouth of the drain would be close to the water line so it would take some of the water from the river but not too much because that would cause trouble for the fish. This system would also not cause villages to be flooded, it would do the opposite, it would help stop flooding because a lot of the water would be inside the aqueduct so it would lower the level of the river a bit and it would not get in the way of fish migrations like a dam would. 

Twitter Files

Twitter is a social media platform that lets the whole world have a big conversation. Elon Musk recently bought twitter and became the director of the company. 

Twitter has been wrestling with the fine line of 'censorship' and  'freedom of Speech' for at least ten years now. Censorship is very important; not too long ago I saw this guy eat a ghost-chilli as an internet challenge. Ghost-chillis are bred to be very concentrated with capsaicin so you could cut it into 8 pieces and the pieces would make 8 pots of stew very spicy. They were not intended to be eaten like berries. Those sort of things should be censored because people may copy it and cause harm to themselves. The other thing that should be censored is defamation, if people lie about a company and cause some of the employees to lose their jobs, things like that. 

In recent days Elon Musk has been exposing the abuse of censorship. They were using Censorship to silence people they didn't like and to cover up scandal. I don't know how far this tunnel goes but it is already very dark. He has been digging deep into the company records. 

He has coined the term Twitter Files.