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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

UBC student flying from Calgary to Vancouver to avoid the high rent

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/ubc-student-flying-commute-calgary-vancouver

Almost every city is expensive now. However, Calgary like Seattle, has been allowed to become a big city.

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/ubc-student-commutes-from-calgary-cheaper-than-paying-vancouver-rent-1.6759116

Little Vancouver remains as a backward, congested mess.

Monday, November 27, 2023

The Broadway Subway might be reaching UBC, some day

 https://canada.constructconnect.com/joc/news/infrastructure/2023/11/broadway-subway-check-in-guideway-progress-and-tunnelling-towards-completion

Of course tunneling all the way to UBC would be more cost effective, but apparently, it's better to stop less than half way there. Then start it all up again long after the days when you could still buy a dozen eggs & 2L carton of milk with a $10 bill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_(Vancouver)#University_of_British_Columbia_extension

The BC part of Canada seems to perpetually strive to be inept or inadequate with its approach to infrastructure planning & development. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Line#University_of_British_Columbia_extension 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=accrf6-vLJU From 2018

Fortunately, these other cities are nowhere as slow as Vancouver is in getting things done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_station_(Toronto) 1954 Of course Toronto would be the first city in Canada to have such a U station. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berri-UQAM_station 1966

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_station_(Calgary) 1987

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University-de-Montreal_station 1988

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_station_(Edmonton) 1992

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_State_University_Transit_Center 2005

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSU_South_stations 2012

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Washington_station 2016 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_University_station 2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_District_station 2021


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Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Physicist Brian Cox takes you on a breathtaking journey through the unimaginable scale of the universe

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KSvCx-EI8f0 

https://www.reddit.com/r/SimulationTheory/comments/1e34h88/skeptical_thoughts_on_the_simulation_hypothesis/

No wonder it's impossible to simulate the entire universe. There is just such a tremendous amount of unknown data and variables.

https://scitechdaily.com/physicists-have-mathematically-proven-the-universe-is-not-a-simulation/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251110021052.htm

https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/10/30/ubco-study-debunks-the-idea-that-the-universe-is-a-computer-simulation/ 

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45780821 

While reasonably accurate simulations of other worlds are possible, even a weather modeling supercomputer will have its limitations.

However, it's so much easier to run various semi-accurate simulations of the Earth. While the Earth has a lot of variables, approximate simulations are possible. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3 , https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/807801.Simulacron_3 

https://galacticjourney.org/july-30-1964-are-you-for-real-simulacron-3-aka-counterfeit-world-by-daniel-f-galouye/ 

http://scguy318.freeshell.org/Daniel%20Galouye%20-%20Simulacron-3.pdf 

https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?7607  

Are our heads in the cloud? Science fiction or fact? by Richard Dawkins https://simulation-argument.com/dawkins.pdf  

https://www.reddit.com/r/AWLIAS/comments/ip0jpq/are_our_heads_in_the_cloud_richard_dawkins_on_the/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChurchOfMatrix/comments/ip0jg7/are_our_heads_in_the_cloud_richard_dawkins_on_the/ 

https://www.reddit.com/r/SimulationTheory , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi61RfhwYDI&t=18s

https://www.reddit.com/user/GodIsACoder

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChurchOfMatrix