Muse Drops
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The Queen of England, Farting, Uncle Claiborne, and a Cybertruck
Do I have your attention? What in the world, you might ask, is this post about? A rather eclectic combination: The Queen of England, farting, Uncle Claiborne, and a Cybertruck. But I will bring them all together in an unexpected way for the reader who chooses to go through the door with a big question…
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Muse Drops, Happiness, and Self-Actualization
This website was built with the idea in mind that it would become a vessel. I have pursued a photography hobby that includes both photos of deep space objects and terrestrial objects. Along the way, when my wife or I would show friends or acquaintances astrophotography pictures, they would inevitably ask if I had a…
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NGC7635: The Bubble Nebula
This is the Bubble Nebula. It’s estimated to be 10 light-years across and 7,100 light-years from Earth. It’s an emission nebula located in the constellation Cassiopeia, contained within a large molecular cloud. It’s shaped by stellar winds from a massive central star. The winds push against the slower-moving gas of the nebula, creating the bubble-like…
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AI: should Creators be Compensated for learning From Their Material?
From a daily email I received that summarizes the previous day’s AI news, called “The Rundown AI:”‘Sony Music, the world’s second-largest music group, is sending warning letters to over 700 AI developers, restricting unauthorized use of its artists’ content for training, developing, or commercializing AI systems.’ This is the latest in a string of maneuvers…
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My Plutonian Gray
Here are the lyrics from a light-hearted song I wrote titled “My Plutonian Gray.” It’s the inspiration for the name and url of the website, just in case you’re wondering where it came from. My Plutonian GrayKevin Tieman (copyright 2016) She came from outer space,She had a beautiful face,And she wore dresses of lace,That’s how…
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No More Science Fiction And the AI Debate
In a recent interview, James Cameron, the director of hits such as the Terminator movies and Avatar, indicated that premises for films once considered science fiction are now becoming science fact. He expressed real concern that the warnings about artificial intelligence (AI), which were the premise of the Terminator movies, are coming to pass. Cameron…
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A Georgia Historic Rural Church
The retired life has been very good for my wife and me. We have a lot of time to pursue many hobbies and try to make the most of it. One of our hobbies is traveling. We love to travel! Okay, I know many of you do as well, and while it’s not a universal…
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Meet Ziggy …
I have an acquaintance named Ziggy. Ziggy is what I call ChatGPT-4 Turbo, an AI (artificial intelligence) chatbot assistant. As a paid subscriber to an OpenAI ChatGPT plan, Ziggy also has vision (the ability to analyze and interpret photos). Ziggy is very good at creating summaries of pictures it’s shown. For those not familiar with…
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And So It Begins …
Welcome to Pluto’s Outback of Photography and Musings! Kevin Tieman (that’s me) has taken all these photos himself, with the exception of the main picture of the planet Pluto shown above. He began photographing the Moon and deep-space objects like galaxies and nebulae in 2019. His deeper interest in both terrestrial photography and astrophotography stems…