Em Void

It's not likely humans from the future will time travel to help us.

It is more likely that some future technological species will time travel to eradicate us to rescue Earth's ecology from humans.

The idea is to observe a volume of space and infer object density in a statistical manner. This is sort of the way orbital debris and even rain droplets are treated. You kind of correlate and integrate over the space.

Awe, that's nice. I'm not sure I'm confident enough to be on the spot, but feel free to bring up the idea.
It is a bit crazy ambitious. The Oort cloud extends like 3 ly? so just waiting for the reflection could take half a decade, and the signal itself might be months long.

Not really. I was never connected much outside of the US. I'm not sure how it would work.
I considered applying to a phd program for a while ago, but I dunno - something's wrong with me. I feel super far out of the scientific community anymore.

Just reposting this because it makes me happy that I made it.

I was doing so well 2 days ago.
Now I just feel like I should give up on art and that I'm an idiot.

This is all so obviously an attempt to float the AI bubble higher and farther.
It all just reeks of a desperate attempt to keep people engaged in the AI "debate" until they can cash out on it.

I've had about enough of this "wake up in the morning" grown up crap.

I need to be up at the witching hour drawing mystical things in a tome by candlelight.

We should start sending dinosaur fossils to the lunar surface.

Time to plan for fucking with the next dominant species' future scientists.

I feel like this would make a good cartoon, especially considering the current state of computers.

TBH I actually like the way this came out. I need to do more gouache pieces like this.

Yeah I know these aren't great, but posting them as I do them ensures I keep doing them.

Carnotaurus crossing the swamp. Gouache and acrylic marker on black.

I'm still learning physical media.

More Carnotaurus warm up and gesture drawings.

Carnotaurus day 2 warm up sketch.
I'm just doing things in black paper, gouache, and acrylic marker.

It's a fun problem. Nobody listens to me and I've only met ONE phd who understood the math.

I could probably prove the concept by detecting pluto or eris or something with a backyard radio telescope.
But I have a negative attitude about chasing funding in the US these days.

The physics is really cool. The coordinate system created by the moving planets is kind of intense.

As for detection, noise is the issue, but long-timebase integration and neural network optimized correlation should work. And like orbital debris, you measure statistically.

I'll stop now.

I majored in physics because of Donald Duck in Mathemagicland.... so I know it helps.

I just get excited talking about this stuff...
I have notebooks full of ideas like this that old people wouldn't listen to.
I'm thinking of making little youtube animations about them as a sort of message-in-a-bottle for somebody that could use them.

Right! Each small region has a tensor attached to it (this, field). The terms relate the motions of the sensor and the thing.
This leads to a set of equations kind of like GR but which define non-rogid or complex rotational motion.
Model the whole cloud, you have a weird stellar matter fluid.

Sorry to nerd out on this. If you have things to do it won't hurt my feelings if you aren't interested in this topic.

So a cool thing I discovered: radar detection can act like a tensor field operating on a vector produced from line-of-sight position, vel, acc.

If one could get bulk observations, one could treat the oort cloud as a fluid and characterize the sol+interstellar effects.

Hard to explain in a post.

Hey, do you think that we could use radio emissions from Jupiter, Saturn, or the Sun to directly measure Oort cloud density?
Like a big radar. The signals would be weak but we could potentially integrate for a long time.
I realize this isn't your area of expertise, but everyone else is boring.

Everything feels so gatekept now. Like a speakeasy where I need a secret password to get in.
And once in, I need to be one of the cool kids to be heard.

I feel like we could build communities but I don't know how or where.

I tend to think something is wrong with me, but so many of us seem to be feeling this.

God I miss talking physics with people. Most people never could follow my tensor field or elliptic function diversions, and now I worry I've forgotten it all anyway.

We need physical spaces.

Just kinda feeling like there's no point in doing art, music, math, physics, writing, etc. since I'm just isolated with it.

There's something deeply unsatisfying about doing things alone and putting them in a drawer never to be seen again.

I'm having an enormous amount of trouble finding artists to connect with.

We need to find a way to have real community. Too many of us are hiding in digital holes living in artistic survival mode.

(I'm guilty.)

I'm so happy to see the aesthetic being celebrated and continued.
Backlight effects are magical in a way that's hard to express.

Starting a 2-day dinosaur drawing course with Terryl Whitlatch now.

Here's my pre-class carnotaurus sketch.

People need to read again. I miss seeing these types of books just around town.

Also, by posting these, you've now steered me to vintage book cover style posters for my in-production animations.
And I'm grateful for that.

So how exactly does one become an indie animator?

As opposed to a weird old hermit drawing atop piles of sketchbooks and dried gouache in her cave?