Swirling Worlds & Starry Starry Nights

Happy birthday to all!


just a coincidence, today I see this remarkable video:

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/02/interactive-starry-night/

It should be 'played' with "Vincent" in the background

http://www.don-mclean.com/vincent.asp


Subject: Swirling World of Water


I just finished constructed a geometric dodeca-icosahedral model of earths' (idealized) continents and ocean flows yesterday, and now I see this fascinating video today:

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-03/video-swirling-visualization-oceans-currents

2nd update: Science news Apr. 7 article: ocean currents in 2008 around antarctica changed slightly causing slight speeding of earth's spin, as if it were geared.
 http://www.sciencenewsdigital.org/sciencenews/20120407?pg=6#pg6 (see "How Bizarre" section and click to enlarge)

Note huge size of emerged Sunda during ice age (light blue tone): http://www.sciencenews.org/view/interest/id/2362/topic/Earth

Early Tectonics: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/339797/title/Stop-and-go_plate_tectonics

What a rock we live on!

update: Compare these rep-tiles (self-replicating tilings in 2 or more dimensions)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replication
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpinski_triangle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollonian_gasket

Consider their potential use in the Fuller Jitterbug transformation:

Jain explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6O6NLaHcb0
Long video explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J19eV7Z1x3M