Noticed a few of these in Riverside / palm springs area . Now I know what they do. They capture the stickers you have on your car, among other things. Mass surveillance has now started nationwide. Good news is that many cities are cancelling the contracts.
It seems if this service and devices were more open to exactly what they were doing, how they did it, and was accessible locally ONLY to the city who installed the devices, perhaps it would not be so disgusting and difficult for people. Cameras like this that upload to the cloud are security problems waiting to happen. Stalking? Crime prevention? Investigators and police will try to justify recording every person in every square foot of your city.
Where is your local tax money going? Better to pay police officers, or pay for technology like this?
Above drawing shows microscope using immersion microscopy using only one slide, with instead of oil immersion, the lens of the microscope is immersed in the specimen solution.
Yes, the microscope lens is immersed not in oil, but in the solution itself with the specimen, the specimen you are attempting to view with the microscope. Read up on immersion microscopy to understand the differences and why these images are improved. Below is example of red blood cells I took using immersion photograph using a microscope. Note many more blurred objects can be seen, circled in yellow as the specimen depth of field and optical quality is a different versus having the air refraction.
One advantage is the the specimens are not compressed between two slides. This might be good for viewing live cells or live organisms.
A disadvantage, live organisms would move quite a bit and be difficult to track in the microscope.
Ideally you would have a solution like oil that has the same index of refraction of the glass slides. I assume the water solution has a different index of refraction than the glass.
Using the gel electrophoresis device, I found the simple concept not so simple. This was using Agarose gel analysis. Agarose with a direct current, is the most commonly used method for analyzing DNA fragments between 0.1 and 25 kb, while pulse-field gel electrophoresis enables analysis of DNA fragments up to 10,000 kb. Our experiment used 100 volts Dc.
My questions. If the DNA simply moved towards one of the charged sides, why doesn’t the DNA move all the way through the gel? Large DNA molecules do not work in electrophoresis depending on the gel type. Specific gels can allow larger dna and can be used for larger dna sorting
My big mystery, why do molecules get stuck? Counterions are moving in the opposite direction of the flow of dna. Eventually a balance is struck, the molecules stop, they can’t move forward anymore and the counterion force (and something else?) is holding them from moving.
My theory is that counterion flow must begin to make channels in the gel. I see theory from others that the DNA strands or macromolecules are being snaked through the gel, perhaps weaving through the gel fibers. That process could be making channels in the gel. Also channels in the gel could be made simply by counterion flow. These channels are the center of my theory.
My theory is based on channels happening in the gel, and it is that the channels in the gel are less intense near the electrode the molecules are moving away from, and near the electrode the molecules are moving towards, intense channels (high flow) of counterions move and prevent anything except the smallest molecules from migrating. Once a channel is made, the flow (of counterions) has less pressure, just like in a river where the smaller the river channel, the faster the flow.
How the molecules stop: The counterions flow is higher pressure than the friction of something in the gel. And the closer you get to the electrode, the counterions flow is intense and stops the material because of molecular friction, or simply blockages can hold the molecules from moving against the flow of counterions. Meaning not enough channels have been formed.
Why the molecules move: When the molecules are moving, the blockages are simply pulled/pushed away, and the molecules move through the gel because of the molecular force trying to move the molecule, and the counterion flow is insufficient to hold the molecules back. And more channels start to appear, allowing even more flow of the molecules.
You can put many different organic molecules in the gel and they will get sorted by size. A really neat machine! Below is the machine used for this experiment:
Below snip of Bruno Zimm document on electrophoresis, discussing counterions:
Three patients diagnosed with hereditary spherocytosis caused by different mutations (panels A–C) showed a spherocyte count of 11% (A), 8% (B), and 10% (C) in their stained peripheral blood smears, as exemplified in panel A (arrows, objective-magnification 100x).
so, be interesting. I can’t come to any conclusions yet, but I don’t see the same things that these people are seeing in terms of percentages of non disk blood cells.
I’m not a researcher by trade. I’m a researcher by hobbyist, but I just see that some of these researchers do not put in enough detail in how they came to the facts are the data that they’re showing. In this one, they don’t talk about how they got the micrograph pictures or the microscope pictures that they show. If they just took blood cells and smeared them on a slide, they would quickly dry up and they would form into different shapes. If you’re trying to figure out the sizes and shapes of blood cells, why would you do it that way?Why not use the immersion microscopy? Some of this research just is just I hate to say it. But it just seems to be like some of it is just garbage where somebody was trying to impress somebody or something. I mean, I don’t try to impress anybody. I’m just trying to get facts. I show facts, and then I show what I do, and then people can jump to whatever conclusions they want. But you have to tell in science, you have to tell everything about how you came to the data or to the photos or to the graph.You have to explain exactly how you got there. It doesn’t contribute much to science.If you don’t explain every little part of how you got there. Thanks for the researchers that do this and put in all the detailed work on how they got to their conclusions.
i have to do more work.But so far it does not add up.
in a previous post, I was fascinated by the components of human blood, and how they look nothing like most illustrations of blood. I did these photos with immersion microscopy, yet I did not use oil immersion. Instead, I simply put the microscope lens directly into the specimen of water blood mixture, so there was no air refraction. What I am still curious about is the spherical shape of the blood. I need to do more tests with hypertonic and hypotonic solutions to confirm the shape of my fingertip blood.
Original post about looking using immersion microscopy, mysteries of blood:
Spain closes airspace to US military over Iran war, widening rift with US
Spain’s defence minister confirms move and describes US-Israel war on Iran as ‘profoundly illegal and unjust’.
Commentary: I think this is an unjust war. There was no reason to begin bombing another country. Israel and the US are both working together to steal a country’s resources! If you bomb infrastructure, it is the same as stealing money right from the country’s treasury. It is very similar. Any economist (or engineer) knows that infrastructure is terribly expensive for a country. Destroying it, well, why? That is theft. It is armed robbery from the people.
it is aggression, it is armed robbery, it is murder.
if someone destroys all your money, that is robbery.
if someone destroys your home and you, it is murder and robbery.
All other words are doublespeak lies. This is America, land of over 50 states, California, Arkansas, others. Israel is not one of the United States!!
WE WILL NOT PARTNER WITH ISRAEL!! No partnership in murder and robbery.
The US wants refined uranium that IRAN made, the MOST EXPENSIVE substances on Earth. Oh, and we will destroy that uranium? Not likely. Why can we not trust a country to make Uranium for nuclear power? Because someone does not want IRAN to succeed as a country. That is it, plain and simple. The US stance to “take the Uranium” is simple armed robbery. Nothing more.
PROTEST, RESIST, WRITE YOUR USA congressional representatives.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is preparing to expand its operations in Lebanon in the near future, an Israeli source told CNN on Monday, saying the moves are being “coordinated with the United States.”
COMMENTARY: My take on this? The idea is the constant voice of the good versus evil will eventually make all believe that Israel and US are good, all other are evil. The moves are coordinated with the United States? Bullshit!! The narrative?
We can win! Together, we will rule all! I don’t see exactly the reason why we have been so close and cozy with Israel, but we definitely share the same bed, we caress each other and whisper sweet things at night. Love is in the air! ❤️ “Oh, the partner (Israel child killers) did that, we talked!” says the lovely partner, the United States. “For certain, we will win with Israel. The terrorists must stop! Together we make the world better with destruction!” says the bedtime partner, the United States. 😘 The collusion of war time actions are sick and depraved. Blaming another country for your murder of others? Disgusting. “Don’t only blame us for killing the children and making new orphans in Beirut, we talked with the United States! Blame the US too!” Says Israel.
My opinion, I am 100% against Israel, and the United States should never partner with Israel on anything, ever. Written because I still have freedom of speech, in the United States of America.
I am learning some of the true role of pesticides in crop production. The thing that I learned is what? I learned that pesticides use is not just about keeping pests off the leaves of your plants. Some farmers, like me, believed that. Just as important, perhaps more important, is the role pesticides play in killing invertebrates in the soil. The myth is that these bugs like earthworms are needed for crop production. It is a half-truth.
Continued pesticide use will get pesticides into the soil. Killing white grubs, which are the larval stage of beetles, will impact crop production. We knew this in 1948, see this patent on pesticide use in the soil: US2596929A – Plant growth improvement – Google Patents
In the Ethylene Bromide patent, details show how the pesticide reduces white grubs and other plant damaging insects, with the result being much stronger plants.
Is there alternatives to keep soil productive, without pesticides? Can you have strong plants, without pesticides (poisons) like Ethylene Bromide? I have experience farming, and my answer is yes. I also understand that it may take a good amount of effort to monitor your soil for pests and keep it productive for your plants. My experience is with grapes, and it takes a good amount of work to make sure the soil is the condition the grapes need. I am sure there are ways to limit pests like the white grub using natural soil conditioners. The easier solution for some farmers would be applying the pesticides.
If you buy organic produce this may not concern you. It is incredible difficult task to only eat organic produce, so I assume that 99% of the population does eat some produce made with pesticides. It’s important to know what effect pesticides have on crop output. It is not trivial, the amount of time and money saved by the farmer in using pesticides. Meaning the amount of crop yield is significant, it could be much lower without pesticides. This does not mean that I as a farmer agree with pesticide use in all of our crops. I don’t believe in chemical use in every farm. There is significant risk of other natural ecosystems that exist in the farm and nearby the farm. I am just putting out a fact regarding output of a crop.
In researching this, I found that one concern with USA pesticides use is the single qualification factor. There is only one factor, or hurdle, that pesticide approval needs, which is, at present, only the European honeybee. The EPA assesses risk to all soil organisms using the European honey bee as a surrogate species. This is ridiculous simple way of identifying the lethality of a pesticide to the environment. This is something the USA needs to improve.
I remember a discussion with someone how good freedom of speech is. So good in America. So good, this free speech. And it is true; we all need free speech.
My concern is that this is becoming unequal, and leaders have more freedom of speech.
Let’s look at something a leader in the USA said. During his prime-time address to the nation, Trump said, referring to Iran: “We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks, we’re going to bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong.”
So we all have the freedom of speech to say we are going to kill people and blow up people? Often this will get a person under investigation. Your security clearance will be revoked. You might get a visit from a detective. This is true. Things in 2026 the year of the war mongers, it appears that freedom of speech is not free for everyone. It is becoming clear that certain people think they have more freedom than we have, that they are above the law, above any regulations, in fact, they believe they are kings, dictators. This is not freedom of speech for all; this is freedom for the few.
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