Texas

Recently there was flooding in Texas. Here is some interesting facts about Texas. 

Texas is the 28th state of America and it existed as an independent country before it joined the union.

~image generated by artificial intelligence (chatGPT) 

Texas is absolutely huge. Many countries would fit inside Texas. Germany, United Kingdom, Italy would all fit the area of Texas at the same time. 

Texas has a surface area of 695,662 km². More than half a million square kilometres. 

Buy House Online

I searched Amazon and noticed it is possible to buy a prefabricated house for less than £10,000 

~ image generated by artificial intelligence 

You would need to buy land and have planning permission but the whole house would come through the post. Very cool. 

The price goes up with size but a lot of them are around £10,000 and have plenty of space. 

This one is twice the price but it has a porch and 2 or 3 bedrooms. 

A Tea for an AI sketch

I asked some artificial intelligence systems how much energy they use when summoned to draw an image. 

They all came to the conclusion that is varies from 100th of a kilowatt-hour to one tenth of a kilowatt-hour. 

It takes AI roughly enough energy to heat up a cup of coffee to make one image

~image generated by artificial intelligence (chatGPT) 

The AI systems agreed that the human brain uses about half a kilowatt-hour per day. The human brain is constantly processing image and sound information and controlling the body at the same time. The Human Brain does more processing work with less energy. It is a whole little world powered by an egg and cress sandwich. It hosts consciousness itself and countless thoughts. 

The Moon

Here are things you can do on the moon that you can't do on Earth. 

You can lift a car. If there was a car on the moon, you would probably be able to lift it because it would only be one sixth of its weight. It would still be very heavy though. 

On the moon you can build much taller buildings than on Earth because there is less pressure on the structures. It would be easy to have a building that was more that 1000 meters tall. On Earth it would be very difficult. 

You can see the stars the way they are in their true colour. During a moon night, the stars don't flicker, and you can see their colour the way it is; even the sun looks white on the moon because there is no air to scatter the blue portion of the light away from the light rays. 

On the moon you can leave a foot print or hand print and it can stay there for thousands of years because there is no air or rain to wash it away. 

On the moon you can enjoy a day that lasts for 2 weeks and a night that lasts for 2 weeks. One day on the moon lasts for 28 earth days (4 weeks). The day time is 2 weeks and the night time is 2 weeks. 

Sources 

The Value of the Moon: How to Explore, Industrialize, and Settle the Moon, and Why It Matters" by Paul D. Spudis

Beyond Earth: Our Future in Space by Michael J. Neufeld

A1 Motorway Superpower

According to various artificial intelligence systems, If an unbroken mesh of solar panels were suspended above the A1 motorway in Britain, it would produce about 2.6 Terawatt-hours of electricity every year. Enough to power nearly 1 million homes. 

~image generated by artificial intelligence(Gemini) 

The A1 motorway is Britain's Longest road. It is 660km Long and usually about 25 to 30 meters wide.  It has a surface area of about 13.2 km². 

There are many more roads apart from A1, surely enough to power everything. 

Super Park

In London there are many parks, but there is one park that is so big it dwarfs a few countries. 

Richmond Royal park, London's biggest park is absolutely huge, 9.53 km². 

Central park in new work is also huge at 3.41 km² and could also contain the area of the two smallest countries in the world. The Vatican city's area is about 0.5 km². Monaco has a surface area of about 2 km²

Central park, Vatican city state and Monaco City state would all fit inside Richmond park and there would be plenty of space left over. 

~image generated by artificial intelligence (Gemini) 

Gibraltar island is not a country but it would also fit in the area of Richmond Park. The land area of Gibraltar is 6.8 km². 

On top of everything, Richmond Park is considered to be a significant nature reserve filled with ancient trees and countless wild creatures that aren't found anywhere else in the area. 

Interesting word Facts

These words are all spelt the same if they're written backwards. 

Deified 

Racecar

Rotor

Level

Madam 

~image generated by artificial intelligence (Gemini)

The word Strengths is the Longest single Syllable word. 

The word Arsenious contains all the vowels in the correct order. It is the name of an unstable acid containing arsenic. (Arsenious acid) 

The word rhythm is the longest English word with no vowels. 

The word set is considered to have the most meanings. The word set could mean a collection of items or it could mean to prepare something or arrange into a group. It has several other meanings.