2025-02-02 15:55:54 PM
I took a few minutes to learn the chords and melody to
The Body Electric this morning and then moved on to a full day of research, mostly on Wikipedia. Topics I covered:
1. Volcanos (the ring of fire).
- Felsic rocks are "lighter", are those volcanic rocks with a rough surface and it says they are the ones that contain aluminum.
- Mafic rocks are "smoother" rocks of obsidian which contain magnesium and iron.
- It said that 90% of lava rock on Earth is basalt/mafic.
2. The Ring of Fire: It said that 10% of the worlds active volcanos are in Japan. I have a new theory that they spread rumors in China that the Mt Saint Helens eruption on May 18
th 1980 was a nuclear explosion similar to the one Americans know as the Hiroshima attack. Human history can be kind of fuzzy like that. Not saying that I'm the authority on it, but my life seems to be pretty odd and it's likely that I have been fed a lot of important information in a non-textbook kind of way.
3. Rivers: How the major rivers around the world exit to the oceans. The concept of continential divide. Looking at world maps and noticing how most rivers drain to a bay. The Columbia river by me drains straight to the Pacific unlike how the one in California drains to the Baja Penninsula and the one in Washington drains to the Puget Sound. The Mississippi and others drain to the Gulf of Mexico. The South American Amazon is interesting though with how all those rivers drain to the Atlantic. It seems to be the major exception.
I researched rice processing to try to get a grip on its uses in plastic. I started off with a Google search for growing plants in high rise buildings and a ton of information came up on that. I haven't seen it personally, but it is highly likely. My more space oriented searches about planet formation via the stuff of our suns rays colliding with the stuff of all the other stars rays. I had written off the idea that there are other planets in our solar system for the last few months, but that idea came up a few days ago and is bringing it all back.
Thinking about my transgenderism and diet history too. I must have gotten the Chinese "rice book" in 1996, so I've likely been eating short grain pressure cooked rice since then, except for a few periods. Most of my meals had that as a large component in the 90's. Not so much in the 2000's and then just mainly a small about at breakfast in the 2010's. I certainly had huge, insanely regular bowel movements in the 90's. Having a body like this is good for some things....
I started reading my book again (Amazon search for Rachel Lydia Rand) yesterday. It's hilarious and I'm very proud of that.
