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Notes: today's cosmic seashell got away...was trying wet in wet and to make seastar orange/red and, a touch of blue got in like a green algae bloom!...game on...on the radio...Angels and Mariners...Barria on mound for Angels...so, triangles/Pythagorean triangles and seashells/diatoms...brb...
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Triangle body shapes are a hallmark of design.
http://umarko.blogspot.com/2011/08/diatoms-triangles-and-our-creator-god.html
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hmmph...an intelligent design blogger going on about triangles and diatoms...and with same google web page design hereabout...one of the template's early on google offered...has pics...snagged the one but no source...Mariners make out...to bottom of 1st...Calhoun up...ground out...Fletcher waps a double...and pulls his hamstring...gloom...Ohtani up...Trout being given a day off?...K...Angels make out...fly out to Hermesio in CF...Cowert in for Fletcher...
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Diatoms are tiny, unicellular creatures, inhabiting oceans, lakes, rivers, and soils. Through their respiration, they produce close to a quarter of the oxygen on earth, nearly as much as the world's tropical forests. In addition to their ecological success across the planet, they have a number of remarkable properties. Diatoms live in glasslike homes of their own design, visible under magnification in an astonishing and aesthetically beautiful range of forms.
A selection of nanostructures built using DNA origami, alongside naturally-occurring diatoms -- single-celled organisms that come in many beautiful and elaborate forms.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-07-single-celled-architects-nanotechnology.html#jCp
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-single-celled-architects-nanotechnology.html
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hmmph...then there's semi-intelligent design...as in, we have no idea what we're doing!...DNA origami...
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DNA origami is the nanoscale folding of DNA to create non-arbitrary two- and three-dimensional shapes at the nanoscale. The specificity of the interactions between complementary base pairs make DNA a useful construction material, through design of its base sequences.[2] DNA is a well-understood material that is suitable for creating scaffolds that hold other molecules in place or to create structures all on its own.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_origami
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hopeful and scary!...hmmph...Mariners make out...to bottom of 2nd...but to think on it, thought is that Nature is predominantly 'nano technology'...the little things are everywhere...watched old movieFirstMenInTheMoon1964 on amazon prime...midnight movie...begins right off with 'tapping the bucket'...lol...opening credits are interspersed with water surface weirdly lighted being vibrated...thought to look alien/spooky...my thought 'how did Chiandi patterns get into this old movie!'...Angels have runners...Simmons to third...Marte on first...Ward up...and a new thought...why do Chiandi patterns look like diatoms!...Marte gets picked off...and K...and runner left on...to top of 3rd...
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Cornstarch and water solution under the influence of sine wave vibration
Cymatics/Chiandi
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https://www.google.com/search?q=cymatics&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjumcfDs8DdAhVFd6wKHeXrCnUQ_AUIDygC&biw=1038&bih=423#imgrc=UhdeLlqurwb4kM:&spf=1537131101476
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Diatoms
http://www.diatomlab.com/diatom-shop.html
https://www.google.com/search?q=diatoms&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiU2Km_tMDdAhVLC6wKHbJVAj4Q_AUIDigB&biw=1038&bih=423
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runner on for Mariners...one out...another curio of the movie was the Aliens inside the Moon...H.G. Wells thought out to live on the Moon, one had to live underground...movie was made in 1964...when the lander, a big diatom!, lands, it scoots along before hitting the Moon and rolling along...except for the rolling along part, it looks a lot like when the Luna lander landed...it's a low budget film...thing about low budget films, syfy especially, they show the bare bones of how films are plotted, what conceits are at work...they haven't the obscurities of big budget films, say, like movie2001!...in MenInTheMoon there's a nod to sacred geometry...the aliens dooways are hexagons...this harks to their being insects...the undergroundscape had big crystals growing...this sort of lifted from movieJouneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth...famous scenes of big crystals...such big crystals actually exist underground!...but hard to visit...too hot that deep, and crystals are like in a super heated brine...
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The main chamber contains giant selenite crystals (gypsum, CaSO4·2 H2O), some of the largest natural crystals ever found.[1] The cave's largest crystal found to date is 12 m (39 ft) in length, 4 m (13 ft) in diameter and 55 tons in weight.
Gypsum crystals in the Naica cave. Note person for scale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Crystals
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and then in Men In The Moon, there's a supreme alien leader on top of a pyramid of steps behind a shimmering water like wall (a hark to the opening credits I imagine!)...a common trick from Hollywood's clip art book in recent flics...with a huge skull of course...see old movieInvadersFromMars...and, one of the intrepid explorers, has a cold...plot is plot within plot...new explorers in 1964 discover flag left by three explorers in 1899...two of the earlier ones escape and return in the diatom spaceship!...leaving behind the one with the cold...and, and H. G. Wells' deux machine, bacteria to the rescue, kicked in, and wiped out the aliens with a cold/virus...as happened in movieWarOfTheWorlds...as happened in movieIndependenceDay with the computer virus...biological warfare...Ohtani up...2-1...oh!, the diatom space ship for propulsion uses an anti-gravity 'paint'...don't know but I may have lifted that for my BlackSpace Ships!...fc...two out, runners at corners...Mariners got a run somehow...missed that...Mariners 1-0...Angels now with chance to tie with base hit...that ball is carrying out in left center...it's out of here!...Upton waps one!!!...Angels 3-1...
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The 1890s expedition claim the Moon for Queen Victoria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Men_in_the_Moon_(1964_film)
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note the diatom space ship in background...Square Triangle Seashells...Angels make out...to top of 4th?...Mariners wap a two run home run...Angels 3-3...Seashell Identification...
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Some shell collectors find their own material and keep careful records, or buy only "specimen shells", which means shells which have full collecting data: information including how, when, where, in what habitat, and by whom, the shells were collected.
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Plant-like diatoms and animal-like radiolarians are two forms of plankton which form hard silicate shells. Foraminifera and coccolithophore create shells known as "tests" which are made of calcium carbonate. These shells and tests are usually microscopic in size, though in the case of foraminifera, they are sometimes visible to the naked eye, often resembling miniature mollusk shells.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seashell#Identification
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Mariner make out...to bottom of 4th...Marte with infield hit...this post like one hundred twelfth in a series...or some such...I've lost count...see previous...this 'collection' began with baseball season!...Angels made out ...to top of 5th...another long fly out to center...
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Like other echinoderms, urchins have fivefold symmetry as adults, but their pluteus larvae have bilateral (mirror) symmetry, indicating that they belong to the Bilateria, the large group of animal phyla that includes chordates, arthropods, annelids and molluscs.
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Fossil urchins have been used as protective amulets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_urchin
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K...Barria does good...to bottom of 5th...Amulets for sometime...Calhoun up...fly out to right...Calhoun 4-48...this is like his earlier slump...two outs...Ohtani up...what happened?...Ohtani must have gotten on somehow...Upton up...K...to top of 6th...
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Test of a sea urchin
Foraminiferan tests
These are arranged according to a geometry particular to each species: they can be rectilinear, curved, rolled up or cyclic, and every time uniserial or multiserial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_(biology)
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Cole on mound for Angels...fly out to center...
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The precise structure of sea urchins' strong spines has been unravelled - and the find may contribute to stronger concrete in the future.
The tough spines are known to be made of calcium carbonate, which has a number of naturally occurring forms, some more brittle than others.X-ray studies now show they are built from "bricks" of the crystal calcite, with a non-crystalline "mortar".
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-17027941
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123...to bottom of 6th...Simmons K...Marte up...well, I can't find it...some of the urchin tests look like the mud adobe brick hut in Africa posted yesterday...try catenary arch sea urchin tests...web is weird kind of tide pool...Angels made out...to top of 7th...two out...
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in part to the 'frankly evangelical' work of Wainwright et al. (1976), to whom I now pay tribute. In the preface to 'Mechanical Design in Organisms', they remark that an understanding of some basic engineering concepts (strength, rigidity, elasticity etc) allows an interpretation of skeletal materials, structural elements and, ultimately, 'the overall design strategy of complete skeletal systems'.
https://slideheaven.com/domes-arches-and-urchins-the-skeletal-architecture-of-echinoids-echinodermata.html
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hmmph...'Mechanical Design in Organisms'...have a looksee...K...to bottom of 7th...1982 book...Calhoun waps a home run!...Angels 4-3...that should cheer him up!...Cowert up...Fletcher did strain his hamstring...likely he's done for season...pop out to center...to top of 8th...
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The 17th-century scientist Robert Hooke wrote, "Ut pendet continuum flexile, sic stabit contiguum rigidum inversum", or, "As hangs a flexible cable so, inverted, stand the touching pieces of an arch."
Robert Hooke, holding a hanging chain, which forms a catenary curve
A note written by Thomas Jefferson in 1788 reads, "I have lately received from Italy a treatise on the equilibrium of arches, by the Abbé Mascheroni. It appears to be a very scientifical work. I have not yet had time to engage in it; but I find that the conclusions of his demonstrations are, that every part of the catenary is in perfect equilibrium".[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenary_arch
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Jefferson was a sacred geometer...
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In the year he wrote the Declaration he was thirty-three years of age and could survey an estate, calculate an eclipse, dance a minuet, try a cause, play the violin, break a horse, and design architectural structures of great beauty. He was learned in geology, cartography, botany, zoology, anatomy, aeronautics, and interested in exploration. He could read in Greek and Latin, practice law, excavate a burial mound, and during his lifetime he founded a university, the University of Virginia.
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Thomas Jefferson was, at least in spirit, connected to Sir Francis Bacon. Jefferson once said “I’m going to build my secrets into the geometry of these buildings because I know books can be burned but buildings, not so easily.”
https://atlantisrisingmagazine.com/article/thomas-jefferson-the-holy-grail/
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and a collector...
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"Among other objects of our instn [institution] is the collection of a Museum of Nat. hist. [natural history] Of Minerals, & of curiosities in general of art or nature. Those of Indian arts stand very near to nature itself. Your situation is so favble [favorable] for assisting us in this collection that I cannot help soliciting your attention to us. . . . I give to the Univ. the whole of my collections which is considerable and much indeed of which was furnished me from the expedn. [expedition] of yourself & Govr. Lewis to the Pacific."
https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/whereabouts-most-jeffersons-collection
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Ohtani up...0-2...safe on the strike out is Ohtani...passed ball and wide throw to first...Ohtani lead off runner on...Upton up...if he steals second, it's a double on a K!...hooey...Jefferson's collections 'dispersed'...'catenary arch D'Arcy Thompson'...foul pop out...Simmons up...Ohtani thrown out trying for second...on a pitch out...that's the only pitch out I've heard/seen all season!...K...to top of 8th...oh...it's top of 9th!...just need three outs!...K...are fly balls in baseball catenary arches?(nope-parabolas)...down to their final strike...K...Butry comes in and slams the door 123Ks...'put a halo over this one!'...catenary/parabola for tomorrowmorrow...and hopefully a better cosmic seashell!
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DavidDavid
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