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    History For WW2 buffs!

    I will have to research the matter. I watched a couple of videos from the same series last night. One story was about the USS Iowa battleship sinking the IJN Kumano, which didn't happen. A second story was about an engine problem with the B29. The narrative went through the development of...
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    History For WW2 buffs!

    An interesting story - How One Cook's "INSANE" Idea Stopped U-Boats From Acoustically Detecting Convoys The story apparently involves "historical fiction" by combining historical facts interwoven into a fictional narrative. WWII Rising Stories appear to be mostly fictional. The...
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    Ferris Eugene Alger

    Certainly, during WWII and perhaps WWI. The US government does have a provision for 'secret patents' or 'classified patents', which usually initiates with a review of patent applications for specific technology, which has been identified as sensitive to national security. Usually such...
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    Ferris Eugene Alger

    Patents are not classified. Patents are filed with the Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) and are published in the public domain. Often patents are filed in other nations and with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). If some piece of technology is classified, it cannot be patented.
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    RIP Susan Stamberg (87), NPR 'founding mother'

    NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died https://www.npr.org/2025/10/16/1184880448/susan-stamberg-obituary For those outside the US, NPR = National Public Radio
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    SpaceX SpaceX Starship development: 7th flight January 10

    Looking back 10 years - https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/spacex-interplanetary-transport-system.887117/ One person who was key to SpaceX development is Tom Mueller, SpaceX employee 1, and cofounder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mueller Mueller was a propulsion engineer at TRW...
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    Technical Analysis on Titan Sub (Titanic Sub)

    Titan submersible imploded due to poor engineering https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdeg7y4171xo Hull Failure and Implosion of Submersible Titan https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/DCA23FM036.aspx It appears to be criminal negligence.
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    Ruthenium-Iridium compound with catalytic effects

    Engineers slash iridium use in electrolyzer catalyst by 80%, boosting path to affordable green hydrogen https://news.rice.edu/news/2025/engineers-slash-iridium-use-electrolyzer-catalyst-80-boosting-path-affordable-green Ruthenium is also fairly expensive (a year ago it was about $490/ troy oz...
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    Photorhabdus luminescens & "Angel's Glow"

    Claim: Ref: some claim on social media However, according to a Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorhabdus_luminescens): https://www.vumc.org/lacy-lab/adventure-travel-guide-microbial-world/superpowers-p-luminescens Further research is required.
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    M7.6 Drake Passage; M7.4, M6.7 Philippines, M6.3 Papua New Guinea Earthquakes

    M 7.6 - Drake Passage 2025-10-10 20:29:20 (UTC) 60.196°S 61.799°W 8.8 km depth https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000rgf4/executive A relatively shallow earthquake. Aftershocks have occurred. M 7.4 - 20 km E of Santiago, Philippines 2025-10-10 01:43:59 (UTC) 7.265°N...
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    Mount Everest (Qomolangma, Sagarmatha) Weather and Exploration

    Recently, there were stories of hikers and trekkers caught in blizzards and snow storms in the region around Mt Everest. None were on the mountain, but rather is valleys around the mountain. My curiosity lead me to some interesting stories about what happened recently, and generally about the...
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    Radiation Hard Electronic Design for LVO Long Mission

    LVO = Low Venus Orbit? What references has one found regarding the radiation environment around Venus, or at For example: Venus Radiation environment monitor (VeRad) for the Venus Orbiter Mission https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022cosp...44..331S/abstract Revisiting the cosmic-ray...
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    RIP John Lodge (82), bassist and lyricist with the Moody Blues

    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/10/moody-blues-singer-and-bassist-john-lodge-dies-aged-82 https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/music/news/john-lodge-moody-blues-justin-hayward-b2843232.html...
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    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025

    https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/university-of-melbourne-professor-wins-nobel-prize-20251008-p5n165.html Robson, 88, is affiliated with the University of Melbourne, Kitagawa, 74, with Japan’s Kyoto University and Yaghi, 60, with the University of California, Berkeley. Cheers for...
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    Frequency Comb (Photonics, Optics)

    https://phys.org/news/2025-10-powerful-precise-multi-lasers-chip.html All one needs is the right materials, junctions and optics. Andres Gil-Molina et al, High-power electrically pumped microcombs, Nature Photonics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-025-01769-z
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