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Hello Jack, alright well we're all welcoming the rain now aren't we? I mean after all we had a really really nice dry summer and a really pretty dry fall up until today but we need the rain so I think we can say the drought is officially over. I was just reading an article in IEEE Spectrum, the electronics journal about this school on the east coast, these guys came out of there with a great idea for improving weather forecasting and it's based on the type of weather balloons they've developed. Typical weather balloons are dropped by planes over a storm and they stay in the, they drop drone type things down through the atmosphere that, you know, pressure and temperature and wind speed and all that as they're dropping. And then they've got weather balloons that typically only stay aloft for a few hours. These guys have developed a balloon that will stay aloft for days and weeks. The longest one they've had up in the air so far is 108 days. And they've got hundreds of balloons, 300 balloons that loft at a time. And anyway, they've also developed an AI system to control things controlled through satellites and the data from satellites goes to this system and is much more accurate at predicting weather with finer detail and more resolution than other systems like used by the National Weather System or anywhere else in the world. So anyway, the name of the place is Weatherborne B-O-R-N-E. B-O-R-N-E, B-O, hang on here, I'm not going to screw this up. B-O-R-N-E, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, really encouraging about the answers coming along with weather forecasting and that whole type of thing with the help of the government support. And anyway, today is a beautiful day. I've got to go get a new driver's license. My old one is expiring. So that's what's up for me today. And mostly stand right indoors. KI7-ZEI.