The Purple Beach of 92037

14 responses to “The Purple Beach of 92037”

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   Pieces of Eye

   Dec 11, 2011 at 7:46 am

   Pfeiffer Beach (manganese garnet)?

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   gsikich1

   Dec 11, 2011 at 12:22 pm

   Impressive mini-cliff – nice colors and composition.

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   jurvetson

   Dec 11, 2011 at 4:47 pm

   thanks! ’tis a magical place.

   [http://www.flickr.com/photos/physicsman] – It’s the beach below the La Jolla biotech mecca (just North of San Diego). They have 2.8x as many biotech companies up there as the next biggest node, South San Francisco.

   But you have a very good eye as to the similarity to Pfeffer! I was thinking similar thoughts, as Pfeffer was the first place I have seen such sand:

   

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   Chucil

   Dec 11, 2011 at 5:05 pm

   Thanks for the puzzle. It is magnificent!
   The stair also looks like a piece from Maurits Cornelis Escher’s painting. google "Maurits Cornelis Escher image" will see more if interested.

   Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson:
   "He had become one of the first twenty people in the world to have all of the genes of his cancer tumor as well as of his normal DNA sequenced. It was a process that, at the time, cost more than $100,000."
   Hope one of the biotech companies will take few zeros out of that medical fee so that it could be affordable to the loved ones of the cancer fighting families around the world.

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   solerena

   Dec 11, 2011 at 5:13 pm

   wow!

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   Sarah & Nick

   Dec 11, 2011 at 5:35 pm

   You don’t need a biotech company to deliver DNA quickly, unless of course you’d like a specific sequence. La Jolla is beautiful, always makes me think of the Lorax.

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   jurvetson

   Dec 11, 2011 at 5:42 pm

   Did they deforest the hills? And yes, specific DNA sequence orders, manufacturd overnight.

   ChuCiLiSao – just so happens that the investment I am working on now is specifically aimed at reducing the cost of a complete human genome sequence to $100.

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   Chucil

   Dec 11, 2011 at 6:11 pm

   OH WOW!!!
   Thank you!!!

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   Sarah & Nick

   Dec 11, 2011 at 10:54 pm

   I haven’t seen any brown Bar-ba-Loots in their Bar-ba-Loot suits there. However, down in the village there are many Thneed stores where the Oncelers shop.

   Did anyone ever win the Archon X Prize?

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    TomiTapio

    Dec 12, 2011 at 5:00 pm

    A fine piece of landscape!

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    Shoshin Seishu

    Dec 14, 2011 at 12:45 pm

    (To me) Looks more…Northern than Southern Californian

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    jurvetson

    Dec 18, 2011 at 5:43 pm

    the bluffs of HMB and the beach of Pfeffer…. yup.

    P.S. This photo caption was quoted today in the San Diego Union-Tribune with this photo

    

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    solerena

    Dec 19, 2011 at 12:53 am

    Fantastic article, you have a wonderful job! Like the solid content too:)

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    Chucil

    Dec 19, 2011 at 9:24 pm

    As a frequent user of Baidu for many years, just came to know that DFJ made this happen.
    Thank you! When it comes to Chinese, Baidu is much better than Google.

    quoted from San Diego Union-Tribune:
    "DFJ invested $8 million for 28 percent of Baidu — the Chinese equivalent of the Google search engine — in the beginning and then a total of $5 million more in the follow-up rounds to maintain their ownership, for a total of $13 million. They were the largest shareholder."

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