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re: "Is faceting for gemstones different from crystals?" gemstones generally are crystals, what makes them more desirable is all about human perception. Things like scarcity, light refracting properties, hardness, colour, will all translate to making a particular crystal more valuable and therefore worthy of someone trying to show off with this particular chunk of the earth. re: "foot pedal powered gem faceting" I don't now anything about the kinds of speeds or forces you require to facet gems, but I bet with complex gears and forces of nature you can get to where you need go without the use of electricity. Wind mills and water wheels can harness plenty of force and with gears you can translate that to some very high rpm's.

In Brandon's most recent weekly update vid (on location from a beach in Hawaii), the man himself shared a spreadsheet with his writing log and left it to us to "try to figure out what the rest of these numbers are". Well challenge accepted! My guesses at what the columns of numbers are below: Column A: Date Column B: Word count for that days writing (Dark grey for Weekends, Light grey for Thursdays) Column C: Running monthly word count total Column D: Total SA5 word count to date Column E: Planned writing days remaining in the current month (appears to include the current date which leads to calculation issues) Column F: Monthly target word count remaining Column G: Word count required on planned writing days to achieve monthly target Column H: Notes (it can be seen that on Feb 15th Brandon worked on "Edit Sunlit Man") The most interesting result from this exercise is that we can see that for the months of February and March Brandon's target is 30k words. With 300k words left to go a 30k/month goal extrapolates out to a end of year completion of the first draft, which I believe is right on the current schedule! This is even without resorting to any kind of process optimization funny business like giving some chapters to editors to start reading before the entire first draft is complete.

I have pre-order in Eastern Timezone, and it is still showing order-processing. Has anyone in the States/Canada had the audiobook appear in their library yet? Update: came available at 3am est

Brandon's NYCC schedule is out https://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/en-us/guests/guest-profile.html?gtID=314643&guest-name=Brandon-Sanderson looks like no scheduled signing

new secret video....

The issue with this is, if you're including the "T" from tWoK, you'll probably have to include the "A" from Wisdom and Truth. "Knights of" is a solid start, but personally I feel we already had an in world book about the radiants, so I'm hoping for something else. Maybe "Knowledge of" as the begin... "Knowledge of War Time" - an in world military treatise "Knowledge Obtained While Travelling" - an in world philosophical work, written by Shauka-daughter-Hasweth preferably =) "Knowledge of Whimsical Turtles" - an in world zoological survey of Santhids

Dang, so close.... to nailing the title

Speaking of title, we only have one more day to guess what it is: Based on the picks and processing done by @Hoiditthroughthegrapevine we can make some decent guesses I am currently leaning towards:

yup, but considering allomancy and rosharan surgebinding, its not too hard to imaging some means of investiture providing the lateral force required to produce the geostationary-ness (geostationality???) as for the spore falls providing propulsion, that would be the wrong vector. I think the more interesting interaction is how do the moons all stay equidistance. do they sense each other? is something controlling/positioning them all?

Confirmed in the live stream (they are working on the scientific justification for the non-equatorial geostationary orbit). Also from the live stream, someone from the planet has tried to go to the moons, but tress doesn't know about that. Each moon has different coloured spores

In our solar system the largest moon relative to it's planet is our moon (by a large margin) at roughly 27% the diameter of earth. If we stretch the definition of moon and planet we would come to charon and pluto where the ratio is about 50%, now we're talking about something that can take up 1/3 the night sky. However even at that size if all 12 moons were located around the equator to make them naturally occurring geostationary orbits at the low orbit required to fill up the sky you wouldn't be able to see any of them from the poles. So I found an equation to find the coordinates of roughly equally spaced n-points. I plotted the results for 12 points. It looks much more like you would imagine from the statement "you can always see one of the 12 moons no matter where you travel. Therefore I am concluding that we have 12 geostationary moons that scattered roughly equidistance from each other around the planet, and they are using investiture to maintain their relative positions. I haven't decided if spiritual mumbo-jumbo is required for them to maintain their spacing, of this is achieved through the use of a simple constant adjustment to their natural orbits to stay geostationary. Maybe they used spiritual mumbo-jumbo to get in position but now don't need it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/books/brandon-sanderson-kickstarter.html

made it to the news: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/03/brandon-sanderson-kickstarter-tops-19-million-in-two-days.html (article says basically nothing, but there is no bad publicitty)

2nd most Funded, that is total dollars, the most backed list is number of people who backed

Seems like the only question left is: "Will the kickstarter pass the Veronica Mars movie for #4 most backed of all time"

RE: Geometry/Geography of the 12 Moons Hoid says the moons are geosynchronous but clarifies that "In other words, they never move". So he means to say a geostationary orbit, which is either natural equatorial geosynchronous orbits or a geosynchronous orbit at some other latitude that is not just using gravitation but is using some continuous external force to maintain. Hoid claims you can always see one of the 12 moons no matter where you travel Hoid claims the moons are so low they take up one third of your field of vision. Will do some math to try and figure if this is close to litteral

RE: Hoid's Audience: Hoid says "The locals worshipped those twelve moons as gods, which we can all agree is far more ridiculous than whatever it is you worship." This tells us something about the audience's religion, I'm just not sure what it is. Does this mean Hoid doesn't understand the audience's gods? Or is he mocking them with "while your gods are beneath my interest, worshipping these moons is even stupider"? There is something here I just don't know what.

@Draginon well at the 7:01 to about 7:18 on the original live stream vid Dragonsteele discuss just this fact.....

@Orlion Blight are you using the original dictionary definition of dollary-doos? so 21,143,067 Australian Dollars? =)

Midnight EST: Kickstarter is just over $13.5 M and 50,529 backers. In the live stream this afternoon Brandon mentioned his recent book launches seem to do 70% of sales (not sure if this was of first week or first month or what) on the first day. If that holds there is a good chance at cracking $20M and over 70k backers. Casually in his spare time Brandon wrote (almost certainly) 4x #1 best sellers when the are released.....

@Hoiditthroughthegrapevine @Thaidakar the Ghostblood @Oltux72 @LopenCousin91 @drunkenbotanist Excellent work everybody, particularly Hoiditthroughthegrapevine for the image processing

He mentioned in his live stream that they will probably release to book stores with his usual publishers, but that europe is tricky as there is a push and pull between publishing in english vs. native languages. He did mention that his Spanish and Polish partners have already shown strong interest. They are actively looking for a way to publish and direct ship in europe so they dont need to produce the books in the states and mail them everywhere.

Lol mentioned about 7 mins into the live stream that they were planning for this.....

From the 0:43 sec mark of the video on the kickstarter page, who has image sharpening software and can try to get the title of one of these novels?

Kickstarter will end in 30 days. He mentions around the 14 min mark of the youtube vid that the ebook and audiobook versions will be for sale later, probably around kickstarter release times. rewatch that part of the video to get exact details