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🧵 Like clouds, #contrails form when water (H2O) condenses on tiny particles in the air. 💦☁️ Gas turbine (jet) engine exhaust 💨contains particles (carbon/soot)🚬 from the combustion of fuel & oxygen. This exhaust plume is about 400C 🔥 rushing out into -50C❄️ ambient air…..

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33,180 views • 10 months ago

Copepods, could stop climate change 5 gigatons of these 1mm-sized zooplankton called COPEPODS live in all the world’s Oceans. This is equivalent to 17 million 747 jets, and if you laid the jets end to end, they would go around the planet 31 times. The copepods migrate from around 200m below the ocean surface every night to feed on plants (phytoplankton) at the surface. It is the greatest mass migration of animals on the planet, and it happens twice a day. The vertical motion of the copepods moves just about as much water as the moon and the tides. The copepods eat 30 times more carbon than humanity generates from burning fossil fuels, and about 6%, or 3 gigatons, of their dead bodies and poop end up in the world’s largest carbon bank, the Abyss. The Abyss contains 500m to 1000’s of meters thick layer of organic carbon / mineral sludge with an area greater area than dry land on the planet. Yet humanity has wiped out more than 50% of marine plankton productivity over the last 70 years due to chemical and particle pollution. We have also wiped out 50% of Arctic krill, which are just as important. and we are now even contemplating dredging the ocean floor! We would not have had climate change if we had not poisoned and destroyed most of the world’s oceans. By 2045, the destruction will be complete unless we act now to stop the inevitable annihilation of nature and life on Earth. Let’s put things into perspective, in comparison to protecting nature, carbon mitigation, windmills and electric cars are almost a joke. Copepods churn the oceans; Bioclimatic climate change: this report provides what we consider to be the most accurate mechanism for climate disruption, and it’s not(only) carbon dioxide; via Howard Dryden

Copepods, could stop climate change 5 gigatons of these 1mm-sized zooplankton called COPEPODS live in all the world’s Oceans. This is equivalent to 17 million 747 jets, and if you laid the jets end to end, they would go around the planet 31 times. The copepods migrate from around 200m below the ocean surface every night to feed on plants (phytoplankton) at the surface. It is the greatest mass migration of animals on the planet, and it happens twice a day. The vertical motion of the copepods moves just about as much water as the moon and the tides. The copepods eat 30 times more carbon than humanity generates from burning fossil fuels, and about 6%, or 3 gigatons, of their dead bodies and poop end up in the world’s largest carbon bank, the Abyss. The Abyss contains 500m to 1000’s of meters thick layer of organic carbon / mineral sludge with an area greater area than dry land on the planet. Yet humanity has wiped out more than 50% of marine plankton productivity over the last 70 years due to chemical and particle pollution. We have also wiped out 50% of Arctic krill, which are just as important. and we are now even contemplating dredging the ocean floor! We would not have had climate change if we had not poisoned and destroyed most of the world’s oceans. By 2045, the destruction will be complete unless we act now to stop the inevitable annihilation of nature and life on Earth. Let’s put things into perspective, in comparison to protecting nature, carbon mitigation, windmills and electric cars are almost a joke. Copepods churn the oceans; Bioclimatic climate change: this report provides what we consider to be the most accurate mechanism for climate disruption, and it’s not(only) carbon dioxide; via Howard Dryden

Thomas Reis

23,622 views • 7 months ago

Israel is quietly developing technology that could make the 2024 The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome pager operation in Lebanon look like child’s play. Picture this: Invisible nanobots slip undetected into a target’s body through water, food, or even air. They remain completely dormant, harmless, and untraceable for weeks, months, or even years… until a remote signal (ultrasound, magnetic field, or other trigger) wakes them on command. They activate from the inside with surgical precision, neutralizing the threat with zero explosion, zero collateral damage, and zero warning. The real foundation already exists in Israeli labs. Technion researchers have created sugar-coated “sleeping” nanoparticles for sonodynamic therapy. These particles accumulate in targeted tissue, stay inactive until triggered by low-intensity ultrasound, then destroy cells from within with minimal toxicity. This isn’t science fiction anymore. It’s Israeli innovation turning the human body into a programmable precision weapon. From the lab to potentially redefining counterterrorism and medicine worldwide. Startup Nation at it again. (VIDEO FOR FUTURISTIC CONCEPT ONLY) Proud every single day. 🇮🇱 #StartupNation #FutureMedical #IsraeliInnovation #Nanobots #PrecisionTech

Israel is quietly developing technology that could make the 2024 The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome pager operation in Lebanon look like child’s play. Picture this: Invisible nanobots slip undetected into a target’s body through water, food, or even air. They remain completely dormant, harmless, and untraceable for weeks, months, or even years… until a remote signal (ultrasound, magnetic field, or other trigger) wakes them on command. They activate from the inside with surgical precision, neutralizing the threat with zero explosion, zero collateral damage, and zero warning. The real foundation already exists in Israeli labs. Technion researchers have created sugar-coated “sleeping” nanoparticles for sonodynamic therapy. These particles accumulate in targeted tissue, stay inactive until triggered by low-intensity ultrasound, then destroy cells from within with minimal toxicity. This isn’t science fiction anymore. It’s Israeli innovation turning the human body into a programmable precision weapon. From the lab to potentially redefining counterterrorism and medicine worldwide. Startup Nation at it again. (VIDEO FOR FUTURISTIC CONCEPT ONLY) Proud every single day. 🇮🇱 #StartupNation #FutureMedical #IsraeliInnovation #Nanobots #PrecisionTech

Mor Edge Insight

16,535 views • 2 months ago

This guy built a visual scanner that reads 468 points on his face and 42 points on his hands from a regular webcam and turns them into a cloud of thousands of particles right between his palms. Inside, MediaPipe and TouchDesigner are linked: the first captures hands and face from the webcam with high accuracy, the second turns those coordinates into a live plane and feeds it into a POP system that instantly generates a swarm of particles in the shape of a head. No studio, no render farmer, no VR headset. Just a laptop, a webcam, and 1 TouchDesigner session. And traditional VJ studios keep teams of 5 people on a setup with lighting, custom hardware, and commercial plugins, while his expenses are only a TouchDesigner subscription and a regular USB camera. One laptop runs MediaPipe and TouchDesigner simultaneously, holds the camera stream at 60 FPS without drops, and in parallel processes 468 face points + 21 points on each hand. The camera captures frame after frame, MediaPipe in real time sends TouchDesigner the finger coordinates and face geometry, and the POP operator inside the engine translates those numbers into thousands of particle points with colors from bright pink to gold. This setup immediately defines the role of the tool and the limits of its autonomy. It knows where the fingertips are at every moment of the frame. It knows how to read the face geometry at any angle to the camera. It knows how to draw a swarm of particles between them with the right color and contour. → MediaPipe pulls 468 points from the face and 21 points from each hand, 60 times per second → TouchDesigner receives those coordinates, builds a virtual rectangle between the fingertips, and feeds it into the POP system → POP generates thousands of particle points in the shape of a head, coloring them in a gradient from bright pink to gold → The HUD layer adds green corners and a blue neon frame, styling the image like an AR interface → All layers assemble into 1 real-time frame that projects back onto the video in the camera window → The final image is recorded to a file or broadcast to a projector for a live installation And only when the guy spreads his hands wider does the plane between the palms stretch; brings them together, it narrows. Otherwise the system runs on its own. And when he moves from his home room to a concert hall, the same laptop with the same webcam launches the same TouchDesigner session in just 5 minutes, without reconfiguration, without a new team, and without a single line of new code. In his work setup there is no studio of his own and no team for assembly. On the desk sits a laptop with a webcam, on top run MediaPipe and TouchDesigner with POP operators, and the same setup through a USB camera moves to any concert without a new configuration. Out of everything I have seen this year, this is the cleanest Creative Coding setup on 1 laptop: 0 render farms, 0 studio lighting, and between them 3 libraries, thousands of particle points, and 1 webcam.

This guy built a visual scanner that reads 468 points on his face and 42 points on his hands from a regular webcam and turns them into a cloud of thousands of particles right between his palms. Inside, MediaPipe and TouchDesigner are linked: the first captures hands and face from the webcam with high accuracy, the second turns those coordinates into a live plane and feeds it into a POP system that instantly generates a swarm of particles in the shape of a head. No studio, no render farmer, no VR headset. Just a laptop, a webcam, and 1 TouchDesigner session. And traditional VJ studios keep teams of 5 people on a setup with lighting, custom hardware, and commercial plugins, while his expenses are only a TouchDesigner subscription and a regular USB camera. One laptop runs MediaPipe and TouchDesigner simultaneously, holds the camera stream at 60 FPS without drops, and in parallel processes 468 face points + 21 points on each hand. The camera captures frame after frame, MediaPipe in real time sends TouchDesigner the finger coordinates and face geometry, and the POP operator inside the engine translates those numbers into thousands of particle points with colors from bright pink to gold. This setup immediately defines the role of the tool and the limits of its autonomy. It knows where the fingertips are at every moment of the frame. It knows how to read the face geometry at any angle to the camera. It knows how to draw a swarm of particles between them with the right color and contour. → MediaPipe pulls 468 points from the face and 21 points from each hand, 60 times per second → TouchDesigner receives those coordinates, builds a virtual rectangle between the fingertips, and feeds it into the POP system → POP generates thousands of particle points in the shape of a head, coloring them in a gradient from bright pink to gold → The HUD layer adds green corners and a blue neon frame, styling the image like an AR interface → All layers assemble into 1 real-time frame that projects back onto the video in the camera window → The final image is recorded to a file or broadcast to a projector for a live installation And only when the guy spreads his hands wider does the plane between the palms stretch; brings them together, it narrows. Otherwise the system runs on its own. And when he moves from his home room to a concert hall, the same laptop with the same webcam launches the same TouchDesigner session in just 5 minutes, without reconfiguration, without a new team, and without a single line of new code. In his work setup there is no studio of his own and no team for assembly. On the desk sits a laptop with a webcam, on top run MediaPipe and TouchDesigner with POP operators, and the same setup through a USB camera moves to any concert without a new configuration. Out of everything I have seen this year, this is the cleanest Creative Coding setup on 1 laptop: 0 render farms, 0 studio lighting, and between them 3 libraries, thousands of particle points, and 1 webcam.

Blaze

38,242 views • 2 months ago

Let's go on Adventure with Seedance 2.0 🔥✨ on Higgsfield AI 🧩 Prompt: Subject: Downhill Kart Race Style: Hyper-realistic, Action Adventure, GoPro Aesthetic Action: A fast downhill race following a lead pack of kids on go-karts. They speed down a grassy slope, drifting through uneven terrain with dust and grass clippings flying. The "insane" twist: As the karts reach the edge of the valley, the lead racer pulls a hidden lever. Suddenly, the karts deploy makeshift, rocket-powered thrusters and makeshift gliders. The karts don't stop at the cliff’s edge; they launch into the air, soaring over the village below as the engines roar and blue flames erupt from the exhaust. Camera Movement: Dynamic Chase Cam. The camera moves forward rapidly, weaving between racers. As they hit the cliff edge, the camera performs a seamless transition into a dizzying free-fall perspective, tilting downward to show the massive drop before leveling out to follow the karts gliding through the air. Environment: Sunny rural landscape, vibrant greens and blues. The peaceful valley floor is now a mile below, with the village looking like a miniature model set. Details: Motion blur on the edges, intense vibration of the karts. New details: Heat haze shimmering from the rocket thrusters, lens flares as the sun hits the metallic gliders, and the visible shock on the racers' faces through their goggles as they break the sound of wind with a sudden sonic pop. Higgsfield Collaborators

Let's go on Adventure with Seedance 2.0 🔥✨ on Higgsfield AI 🧩 Prompt: Subject: Downhill Kart Race Style: Hyper-realistic, Action Adventure, GoPro Aesthetic Action: A fast downhill race following a lead pack of kids on go-karts. They speed down a grassy slope, drifting through uneven terrain with dust and grass clippings flying. The "insane" twist: As the karts reach the edge of the valley, the lead racer pulls a hidden lever. Suddenly, the karts deploy makeshift, rocket-powered thrusters and makeshift gliders. The karts don't stop at the cliff’s edge; they launch into the air, soaring over the village below as the engines roar and blue flames erupt from the exhaust. Camera Movement: Dynamic Chase Cam. The camera moves forward rapidly, weaving between racers. As they hit the cliff edge, the camera performs a seamless transition into a dizzying free-fall perspective, tilting downward to show the massive drop before leveling out to follow the karts gliding through the air. Environment: Sunny rural landscape, vibrant greens and blues. The peaceful valley floor is now a mile below, with the village looking like a miniature model set. Details: Motion blur on the edges, intense vibration of the karts. New details: Heat haze shimmering from the rocket thrusters, lens flares as the sun hits the metallic gliders, and the visible shock on the racers' faces through their goggles as they break the sound of wind with a sudden sonic pop. Higgsfield Collaborators

Iqra Saifi

13,539 views • 2 months ago