Another Solstice Factoid

 There's an hour and fourteen minutes more sun today in Bali than night - according to my quick calculation. This longest day of the year here is one hour and one minute longer than the shortest day. In Singapore, located just north of the equator, today is eight minutes longer than the shortest day. What is these differences where you are? - DC

Solstice Factoid

 It's summer solstice today here in Bali where the season ian'r called summer. It"s rainy season. Here's a bit about the summer solstice from Britannica. I didn't know this either. Happy solstice whichever it is for you. - DC

At the summer solstice, the Sun travels the longest path through the sky, and that day therefore has the most daylight. When the summer solstice happens in the Northern Hemisphere, the North Pole is tilted about 23.4° (23°27´) toward the Sun. Because the Sun’s rays are shifted northward from the Equator by the same amount, the vertical noon rays are directly overhead at the Tropic of Cancer (23°27´ N). Six months later, the South Pole is inclined about 23.4° toward the Sun. On this day of the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, the Sun’s vertical overhead rays progress to their southernmost position, the Tropic of Capricorn (23°27´ S).

Computer Hacking Post

 An interesting answer to a question on if ones computer can be hacked if it's not on the Internet.

Lagu Lagu

Lagu Lagu is one of the six songs on my newly released Album, Baliyuga on the Way to Venus. In the possible event that someone may wish to know what the title of this song, and some other foreign words in the song mean, herein before a link to the song on YouTube, we will enlighten you.

Indonesian  -- English

Lagu lagu -- songs - plurals in Indonesian are made by doubling the word when it's not obvious

Gamelan -- Indonesian traditional orchestra

Nyoman -- our bemo driver and helper since July, 2014

bemo -- VW Bus like vehicle with open side that functions like a bus on short routs

bule -- white people (not pejorative)

cewek -- female

cowok -- male, can be tomboy the way it's used: "cowok hon" [c is pronounced as ch in English]

kain poleng - black and white checkered sacred cloth

Lagu Lagu on YouTube

Baliyuga.com

Really?

 

Bali only received 45 international tourists in 2021 despite reopening - CNN

But it says, about 13,000 Indonesian tourists come in every weekend.

Climate Change on the March!

 All these are headlines in today's Washington Post

Climate change has destabilized the Earth’s poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril

Crucial Antarctic ice shelf could fail within five years, scientists say

Russia blocks U.N. move to treat climate change as a global security threat

Arctic temperature soared to an unprecedented 100 degrees in 2020, scientists confirm

Magnets and Hard Drives

 I don't know why I get these Quora questions and answers. Usually I just delete the email with them but sometimes one catches my eye. I think this one is useful and is not what I thought. 

Dhirgham Murran

Works at Artists and Creative Professions4y

I’ve heard that a magnet can seriously damage an SD and hard drive. Is this true?

Originally Answered: I’ve heard that a magnet can seriously damage an SD and hard drive is this true?

Once, the myth busters on the Discovery Channel dealt with this issue. They tried all kinds of the strong magnets, but none spoiled the hard drive in a laptop. But, when they exposed it to a commercial high powered magnet which is capable of lifting a car, the hard drive was entirely damaged. So the answer: it is unlikely to be damaged by any available magnet except the one used in shipyard to lift cars.

Which led me to wonder about

Is the magnet scene in Breaking Bad possible?

Final verdict. While destroying a hard drive using magnets is highly plausible, 'The Magnet Scene' from Breaking Bad appears unfeasible. The same scene was also investigated by MythBusters in the final episode of their spin-off series MythBusters Jr.