The King of England lies dying and one of his sons has been exiled. A princess has vanished. Plague stalks the land and the Treasury has been plundered. NOW is the time for strange women lying in ponds to distribute swords to form the basis of government.

You could drop remote-controlled speakers over a wide area of land, and generate some sandworm movement art filmed form high above... the options are endless. Sadly, there are far too many natural causes of rhythmic noises in nature make them possible to evolve...

Yesterday I watched the (new) Dune movie for the first time. Haven't read the book. There are some really awesome themes and ideas in there. I just cannot get over how easily you can manipulate sandworms. Far too easy. Could you build power plants that draw energy from sandworm movements?

Guess who's a physicist by training, and turning 40 in a few days? 😀🙈

I have compiled a giant list of resources for astrophysics undergraduates, grad students, and people generally interested in astronomy. It’s on my website here: skylargrayson.com/references.h... Hopefully it can be of use to at least one person! And if you have good stuff to add let me know!

I suspect you'll eventually find out by way of unplanned experimentation, like, life getting in the way, travel etc. If I say you'll find out "pretty soon", does that make me an optimist or a pessimist? 😜

Make sure you can see your strategy through...

Turns out ti's salvageable. Not as soft as I'd like on the inside, but edible.

I'll give you an update when I cut it tomorrow 🙈