[FRIAM] DENT 2024

2024-06-23 Thread Tom Johnson
Perhaps of interest. https://dentthefuture.com/conference?fbclid=IwAR0AIIG0CZt0w8nD6jXlSlw1aMoATYjjX9rmX65KeFePkAVyrJisQMcA48Q_aem_WUUh1ck8jnql5DoMfiYr8Q === Tom Johnson Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, New Mexico 505-577-6482 === -. --- - / ...- .- .

Re: [FRIAM] "Weather line" on 14

2024-06-23 Thread Stephen Guerin
Dan Gupta responds: _ Hello Nick, I prefer to respond from a vector space where I imagine you as frocked... ### Understanding Patterns in Nature: The Third Way Let's start with something familiar: the striking stripes on a zebra. These patterns, along with many others in nature, ar

Re: [FRIAM] "Weather line" on 14

2024-06-23 Thread Nicholas Thompson
uh, Sorvig. Where have you gone, Kim, when I need someone to pronounce "Yggdrasil. On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 10:06 AM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Thank you, Eric. > > I keep trying to engage Kim Sordahl in this conversation because he has an > architectual theory concerning the meaning of stra

Re: [FRIAM] "Weather line" on 14

2024-06-23 Thread steve smith
And another regional example of interest: https://spanishpeakscountry.com/the-great-dikes/ The text suggests "igneous intrusions into sandstone" and "sandstone eroded away to expose the igneous intrusions". I'm familiar with igneous "plugs" such as my nearby Black Mesa and the famous Devi

Re: [FRIAM] "Weather line" on 14

2024-06-23 Thread Nicholas Thompson
...he lives in the Gallisteo Basin. I am beginning to think that nature does not abhor straight lines quite as much as I first thought. The San Andreas Fault is pretty straight for a thousand miles. Cloud streets.Given the right conditions of sheer, etc., thunderstorms can form straight lines

Re: [FRIAM] "Weather line" on 14

2024-06-23 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Thank you, Eric. I keep trying to engage Kim Sordahl in this conversation because he has an architectual theory concerning the meaning of straight lines in nature AND On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 6:57 AM Santafe wrote: > A few km or even tens of km does not seem long to me on geological scales. > >

Re: [FRIAM] "Weather line" on 14

2024-06-23 Thread Santafe
A few km or even tens of km does not seem long to me on geological scales. If we have slowly formed crustal rock, it could be fairly uniform. Then if there is a bending stress on large scales from upwelling, the least-disruption fracture would be a long straightish crack along the the line perp