Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-20 Thread LizR
On 20 March 2014 14:28, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Again, consider this to all be revised again in our lifetimes. I know. Wonderful, isn't it?! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-20 Thread spudboy100
die-off.org -Original Message- From: Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Mar 18, 2014 5:51 am Subject: RE: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization From: everything-list

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-20 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Russell and everyone I appreciate the comments in the thread such as those on entropy vs universe dynamics which reveal the fact that I may be somewhat old school re physics. In the blog discussion I pointed to in my earlier post I do cover many points. For example at definition #3, I

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-20 Thread LizR
http://dieoff.org/ On 21 March 2014 02:24, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: die-off.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-19 Thread LizR
On 19 March 2014 15:55, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: So an expanding universe should give rise to increasing maximum entropy, but the total energy remains constant (at zero). As for what happens to the free energy (stuff available for work), its a bit more complicated, but it

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-19 Thread John Mikes
Hi, Hal, thanks for your kind and fast reply. Not that I want to overwhelm science, or even the knowledgeability of THIS list, but I diverted from the base of your position ~2 decades ago and became an agnostic. If 'life' increases the disorder then I agree: in my narrative (a model to 'speak

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-19 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, et al, The problem with your and other's comments is that, as I've explained before, entropy is NOT fundamental as many seem to think.. The current entropy state depends entirely on the current mix of the four fundamental forces, in particular on whether gravitation is more attractive or

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-19 Thread ghibbsa
On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:35:11 PM UTC, Liz R wrote: On 19 March 2014 15:55, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.aujavascript: wrote: So an expanding universe should give rise to increasing maximum entropy, but the total energy remains constant (at zero). As for what happens to the

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-19 Thread LizR
On 20 March 2014 12:21, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:35:11 PM UTC, Liz R wrote: On 19 March 2014 15:55, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: So an expanding universe should give rise to increasing maximum entropy, but the total energy remains constant

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-19 Thread LizR
On 20 March 2014 12:19, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, et al, The problem with your and other's comments is that, as I've explained before, entropy is NOT fundamental as many seem to think.. I have also already explained this quite a few times, especially in answer to people

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-19 Thread ghibbsa
On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 11:19:13 PM UTC, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Liz, et al, The problem with your and other's comments is that, as I've explained before, entropy is NOT fundamental as many seem to think.. The current entropy state depends entirely on the current mix of the four

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-19 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:44:17PM +1300, LizR wrote: Yes, I think that's what Carl Sagan said about the possibility of life existing indefinitely, too. The entropy ceiling goes up indefinitely, but the energy remaining goes down, and ultimately I would imagine it ends up at the noise level.

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-18 Thread LizR
I'm not sure I follow much of what you are saying here. Maybe I need to go away and sleep on it. Then again, it's hard to answer comments on your memory of another thread... One thing about 1984 is that the Party are, I think interestingly, powerless. They never let *anyone* who commits

RE: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-18 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 8:58 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-18 Thread spudboy100
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Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-18 Thread spudboy100
- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Mar 17, 2014 7:37 pm Subject: Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization On 18 March 2014 05:01, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Well, to get on track, we would

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-18 Thread John Mikes
Dear Hal Ruhl, it has been for long since we had our last exchangeI clicked the URL and found mostly agreeable general ideas (with my peculiar thoughts in frequent questioning). *May I ask WHAT kind of LIFE are you talking about?* I believe our Terresstrial 'bio' is only a segment. Then

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-18 Thread LizR
Speaking of 1984 http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/22635-focus-former-top-nsa-official-qwe-are-now-in-a-police-stateq -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-18 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi John: It is a distinct pleasure to hear from you. To answer your question I think the narrowest characterization of the type of life I talk about is that it is one of the possible processes within a universe that if implemented increase the entropy of that universe. Further all such

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-18 Thread meekerdb
On 3/18/2014 4:52 PM, Hal Ruhl wrote: Hi John: It is a distinct pleasure to hear from you. To answer your question I think the narrowest characterization of the type of life I talk about is that it is one of the possible processes within a universe that if implemented increase the entropy of

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-18 Thread LizR
On 19 March 2014 12:52, Hal Ruhl halr...@alum.syracuse.edu wrote: To answer your question I think the narrowest characterization of the type of life I talk about is that it is one of the possible processes within a universe that if implemented increase the entropy of that universe. Further

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-18 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 02:40:16PM +1300, LizR wrote: On 19 March 2014 14:27, Hal Ruhl halr...@alum.syracuse.edu wrote: Hi Liz: Hi Hal The physics that I learned holds that the energy in a universe is constant. Therefore entropy in such a universe can not exceed 100% of this

RE: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-18 Thread Chris de Morsella
probability of collapse of industrial civilization From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com? ] On Behalf Of Alberto G. Corona Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 8:48 AM To: everything-list Subject: Re: New NASA study

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-17 Thread spudboy100
Message- From: Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, Mar 16, 2014 7:11 am Subject: Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization Liz, How is going to another planet and screwing that one up too going

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-17 Thread Alberto G. Corona
An excellent piece of postmarxist (marxism rephrased as sociological science) by the church of progressivism. Unless the budget of the NASA and specially these experts is increased and a change in global politics and another international bureau of world engineers is created overcoming

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-17 Thread Alberto G. Corona
My only doubt is how long it will take to convert this discussion list, once devoted to science and (some) philosophy, into a pure mambo-jambo babble of left liberals new agers and ecoloalarmists among others 2014-03-17 16:48 GMT+01:00 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com: An excellent piece

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-17 Thread spudboy100
: Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Mar 17, 2014 11:48 am Subject: Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization An excellent piece of postmarxist (marxism rephrased as sociological science

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-17 Thread spudboy100
with a decent idea, or promote one we have heard of. -Original Message- From: Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Mar 17, 2014 11:53 am Subject: Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

RE: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-17 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alberto G. Corona My only doubt is how long it will take to convert this discussion list, once devoted to science and (some) philosophy, into a pure mambo-jambo babble of left liberals new

RE: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-17 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alberto G. Corona Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 8:48 AM To: everything-list Subject: Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization An excellent piece

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-17 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi everyone Below is a URL from one of my posts on the subject of life being inherently self destructive which I believe it to be. It provides my curent argument on the subject. I think such discussion is relevant to the main history of this group's threads because if life is indeed

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-17 Thread LizR
On 18 March 2014 05:01, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Well, to get on track, we would need to assert trade offs, fixes, and solutions, rather than promote mere complaint. This goes for myself, but few seem to feel this way. If we want a clean green Earth, then problem solving is essential. In

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-17 Thread ghibbsa
On Monday, March 17, 2014 11:37:36 PM UTC, Liz R wrote: On 18 March 2014 05:01, spudb...@aol.com javascript: wrote: Well, to get on track, we would need to assert trade offs, fixes, and solutions, rather than promote mere complaint. This goes for myself, but few seem to feel this way. If

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-17 Thread ghibbsa
On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 3:43:58 AM UTC, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, March 17, 2014 11:37:36 PM UTC, Liz R wrote: On 18 March 2014 05:01, spudb...@aol.com wrote: Well, to get on track, we would need to assert trade offs, fixes, and solutions, rather than promote mere complaint.

RE: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-16 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR If we could just get away from one planet ... but the difficulty is, well, astronomical. Before now we could always leave the place where disaster struck, move from the valley where the

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-16 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, How is going to another planet and screwing that one up too going to help. The problem is not astronomical, it's human nature. The very success of humans as a species depended on the ruthless exploitation of nature and repression of competition. But those exact same aspects of human

New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
All, this seems like a very reasonable scenario and is in line with my thinking.. Edgar http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/mar/14/nasa-civilisation-irreversible-collapse-study-scientists NASA-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'?

RE: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-15 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Edgar L. Owen All, this seems like a very reasonable scenario and is in line with my thinking.. Edgar Without wishing for it – nobody (except, the Doomerist lunatic fringe perhaps,

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-15 Thread LizR
I can find nothing to argue with here, I too have been saying this for a while now. Ronald Wright is the go-to man for the exact details imho. On 16 March 2014 06:33, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-15 Thread LizR
Oh, and once this happens, that will be it for humanity, of course, because we can't restart civilisation with no easily accessible fuel sources. So we'll stay in the middle ages until a passing comet gets us (or similar). This does of course explain why SETI hasn't found anything. Hell of a way

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-15 Thread ghibbsa
On Saturday, March 15, 2014 11:02:31 PM UTC, Liz R wrote: Oh, and once this happens, that will be it for humanity, of course, because we can't restart civilisation with no easily accessible fuel sources. So we'll stay in the middle ages until a passing comet gets us (or similar). This

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-15 Thread LizR
If we could just get away from one planet ... but the difficulty is, well, astronomical. Before now we could always leave the place where disaster struck, move from the valley where the soil was full of salt or whatever, start again with a fresh load of resources. I can't see us doing that this