Today's educational programming. I'm stealing a couple of things from it for my book.

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moto razr+ (2024 model) with a foldable Bluetooth keyboard.

My portable writing kit. Actually got a bit more story down before Terror Tuesday.

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*Scribbling furiously taking notes for the sequel to the novel that I should finish writing...*

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Canada’s Submarine Dilemma: Type 212CD vs KSS-III Canada must choose between the stealthy German Type 212CD and the powerful Korean KSS-III. Which submarine best secures Canada’s future?

MOAR submarine research.

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Fast Fourier transform - Wikipedia

This morning's refresher.

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Where Did the Term "MacGuffin" Come From? - Pop Culture References In the latest Pop Culture Questions Answered, discover the origins of the popular film term, "McGuffin."

Done with meetings for the work week. Will be back in the office tomorrow to catch up on stuff.

However, now, I think it's time for some deep dish pizza while do some research on quantum computing, so that I have my novel's MacGuffin properly fleshed out.

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Project Sanguine - Wikipedia

Loving this audacious concept to use the Earth itself as a transmitting antenna for extremely low frequencies (ELF).

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Made some good progress on the novel this weekend.

Parked at the Alamo a few hours before my film last night to finish the second chapter and get a start on the third. Finished the third this morning. Currently sketching out the fourth chapter - we're gonna need a montage!

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Cavity magnetron - Wikipedia The cavity magnetron is a high-power vacuum tube used in early radar systems and subsequently in microwave ovens and in linear particle accelerators. A cavity magnetron generates microwaves using the interaction of a stream of electrons with a magnetic field, while moving past a series of cavity resonators, which are small, open cavities in a metal block. Electrons pass by the cavities and cause microwaves to oscillate within, similar to the functioning of a whistle producing a tone when excited by an air stream blown past its opening. The resonant frequency of the arrangement is determined by the cavities' physical dimensions. Unlike other vacuum tubes, such as a klystron or a traveling-wave tube (TWT), the magnetron cannot function as an amplifier for increasing the intensity of an applied microwave signal; the magnetron serves solely as an electronic oscillator generating a microwave signal from direct-current electricity supplied to the vacuum tube.

Didn't get the chapters finished over the weekend as planned. Had a chicken and egg problem in that I hadn't quite written the timeline of my "secret history" yet, so I spent hours fleshing that out from WWII through the modern day.

Read A LOT about radar, too.

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Radar in World War II - Wikipedia

Today's book research: the Tizard mission and radar in WWII.

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All and Nothing After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese planned to strike the United States with aircraft borne by giant submarines.

Research for the third chapter of my novel, which I hope to wrap up this weekend. I stumbled onto a treasure cave of history to write my own "secret history" around.

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Magnetohydrodynamic drive - Wikipedia

Today's morning research before heading into the office: magnetohydrodynamic drives.

Now, I need to see if underwater ramjets are a thing or not.

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Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race - Wikipedia

The 1st draft of the 1st chapter of the novel is done.

It had me doing a bit more research into Australian off-shore racing, what components one needs to build a radio transmitter, and where exactly the South Pacific Gyre starts heading south.

Next chapter: world building!

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Liquid Ventilation and Water Immersion Is there an example design in nature for the perfect acceleration shield? In effect, there is, and it is the egg. We studied the coupling of water immersion with liquid breathing as a possible approac...

More novel research fodder.

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