week 5 dq response to the teacher

One of the things I have been thinking about are the concepts of this is the 21^st century. It is a century past where we need to rely on the ref/citation format of centuries and millennia ago. We need to pull away from the arrogance and narcissism of previous authors and focus on the ideas themselves.

In the modern age we can make a program and application which will allow what we write to become in effect auto cited. To being up the dozen or more citations which show evidence of that sentence. On any one given subject is it impossible to read every single article written about OC or CRs; 100,000s at the least. However, buried deeply inside those 100,000 might be articles which mention or even study aspects of whatever subject that the current author is writing about. Instead of spending huge amounts of time looking through 10s k of articles most of which have the smallest thing to do with the subject at hand, a more refined search would work great. The current layered “search” in the database is for most of the time a complete waste of time. The refinement of the search parameters has to be in the extreme side of perfect to find anything. Flip it the other way; have the program review all the key words as you write and bring up articles which match the key words you are writing about.

This is not the first time I have brought up this idea. Nor is it the first time I brought it up at this school. However, a project which at a ground school would have already been started as a mini project which the school would assist in its creation. Online schools at this point could not care less about in effect creating a JPL, VLA, etc. auxiliary campus to work on specific projects.

Historically I can think of some very cool connections with this idea and the ancient past.

What if the labyrinth of the Minotaur was not actually a labyrinth but was some type of very complex library and information system which allowed for an almost website formatting of information. To have every subject have sub connections to other subjects and have some type of a network to understand the in-effect string theory of those connections. String is actually a serious and substernal part of the Labyrinth story.

As I mentioned above for example in large universities, and polytechnical colleges it is often the case that students create “sub” projects which become part of their dissertation which they keep working on it after they graduate. Sometimes a few offices on campus are insufficient, requiring an auxiliary facility. Like JPL, which sub information. JPL was founded, paid for, and was the head of research for years by Hedy Lamarr. But her position was legally stripped from her by Richard Nixon. He made a very healthy career out of stripping her of any and all rights to her own research facility. That achievement in the 1930s he claimed was one of his proudest achievements. To strip her of anything at all to do with the founding of JPL. She and Nixon had one more hard-core knockdown, drag out fight over research during a strategic event which took place in the Cheyanne Mountain NORAD research facility. Radio Signals and computers were her wheelhouse, those close to catastrophic events were witnessed by a couple of Hollywood film makers visiting relatives in Colorado Springs. They witnessed from the observation deck of the War Room the events. Which was turned into the movie “War Games” staring Matthew Broadrick and Alley Sheedy. Falcon was changed from a female to a male, and the politicians played by Dabney Colman was altered from Nixon to just some random political figure. The same script format was used a decade later by Steven Segal for his film Under Siege II. Nixon’s entire political life sprang from what he was able to do against Hedy and all the gigantic fortunes he was able to hand to his friends from inventions which poured out of JPL. The advisory board he sued and sued and sued on behalf of the cities he represented are still raking in the profits from his nasty behavior 80 years later. But those very interesting things and details you will not find in almost any articles about those subjects.

BTW Hedy copied Leonardo da Vinci’s work at Versailles to model JPL from. Hedy as a child and teenager spent time studying at the Sorbonne, being a female, a Jew, and a non-French person, she was only allowed to audit the classes with no records of her attending period. How did Leo build Versailles, that is a very interesting and complex question which draws directly back to the founding of the city of Rome, and the Trojan War which started at the Palace at Knossos with the Minotaur. They count because the more you know, the more you do not have to reinvent. If the information is readily available, a huge amount more can be achieved academically in a shorter period of time. Which is the entire point to technology. So why are we still using centuries old reference techniques when we can build an entire information labyrinth.