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:

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-20 Thread spudboy100
Yes, or neomarxist, neostalinst, die-offs. Billionaire, elites, pols, greens, Marxists, sort of a toxic stew. Obama, the UN, the EU. Good problems to attack, but merely using them as an excuse for control and exploitation. No technical responses, only, more totalitarianism. Paint and troll

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-20 Thread spudboy100
Please remember, solar, to remediate, must replace all nat gas, all coal, all uranium, all petro that all cities and cars. There are wonderful looking projects that have been proposed for 50 years, that for technical reasons, cannot achieve much, other than getting cheers from admirers in the

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-20 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-03-20 14:34 GMT+01:00 spudboy...@aol.com: Please remember, solar, to remediate, must replace all nat gas, all coal, all uranium, all petro that all cities and cars. No it doesn't have to... it's not because it can't currently replace everything that it can't replace part of it... and it

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-20 Thread spudboy100
Good point, but this is what things are veering towards, or we are already there! Plutocracy, rule by the rich, who influence purchased politicians, who know how to successfully bribe people who want food stamps (in the US), who need free cell phones, who need free health services (no matter

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-20 Thread spudboy100
Very well, go ahead and power it all down. Shut off the cars, kill the lights, take a bike. Are you suggesting that we continue to burn filthy coal, or horrible uranium, while we try to goose up solar and wind to replace it?!! Why that will take decades and the catastrophe is already upon us.

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-20 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-03-20 14:55 GMT+01:00 spudboy...@aol.com: Very well, go ahead and power it all down. Shut off the cars, kill the lights, take a bike. What sort of crazy are you ? Why are you adding things not written ? Can you just count in binary ? Everything is always an all or nothing in your mind ?

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-20 Thread spudboy100
I am pragmatic enough to see that if government worked best on tackling a problem, I would endorse it. There does seem to be a rule of elites, a ruling class, in effect, worldwide, that consists of billionaires, their politicians, and academics, media, union leaders, and their choices in

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-20 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:55 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Very well, go ahead and power it all down. Shut off the cars, kill the lights, take a bike. Are you suggesting that we continue to burn filthy coal, or horrible uranium, while we try to goose up solar and wind to replace it?!! Why

Re: Modality Independence

2014-03-20 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 12:05:08 AM UTC-4, Liz R wrote: On 20 March 2014 15:25, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: It means that birds squawk because they like the feeling and sound of it. The intention of using the squawking to convey information is optional and

Re: Modality Independence

2014-03-20 Thread Gabriel Bodeen
On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 9:25:44 PM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:06:37 PM UTC-4, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: But all the forms of language do share a common logical basis, according to many linguists. How is it relevant to the logic of a language that it

Re: Entropy and curved spacetime

2014-03-20 Thread John Clark
Jesse Mazer laserma...@gmail.com Wrote: you made a sweeping statement that If there are 2 different states of the universe that could have produced things as they are now then the laws of physics are not reversible. Yes I said that and is one of the most non-controversial things I ever

Re: Modality Independence

2014-03-20 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:09:39 AM UTC-4, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 9:25:44 PM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:06:37 PM UTC-4, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: But all the forms of language do share a common logical basis, according to

Re: Entropy and curved spacetime

2014-03-20 Thread meekerdb
On 3/20/2014 9:10 AM, John Clark wrote: The fact remains that if Entropy is proportional to the logarithm of the number of microstates something can be in and still have the same macrostate then it's also proportional to the logarithm of the number of ways the thing could have been produced

Re: Modality Independence

2014-03-20 Thread Gabriel Bodeen
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:16:19 AM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:09:39 AM UTC-4, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: It formed increasingly high-level associations between bundles of sensory data, eventually also combining sounds and vocal behavior into those

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-20 Thread spudboy100
Quentin, simply make your choice. Are you trusting of this mix of politicians and billionaires doing what is smart on energy and the environment, or are you suspicious of these guys because they appear to be doing poor job on either? Inconsistencies in behavior regarding public policy, a lack

Re: Entropy and curved spacetime

2014-03-20 Thread meekerdb
On 3/20/2014 9:10 AM, John Clark wrote: WHY?? How would it change anything about how we imagine the world works? Regardless of what English word you call it if X is proportional to the logarithm of the number of microstates something can be in and still have the same macrostate then X is also

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-20 Thread spudboy100
Tackling thing technically will save lots or preaching, in emails, and public speaking. For example, if you cook all your food by wood-gathering, you are more likely to disrupt the forests by your gatherings. If you have access to cheap solar, wind, and maybe natural gas lines, then the urge

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-20 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Spud, Using firewood properly done does NOT disrupt the forest. I've used firewood for heating most of my life including currently. I use only dead trees from my own property (16 acres), not taking any with nesting holes. Only very rarely do I cut a live tree when it's clearly on its last legs

Re: Video of VCR

2014-03-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Mar 2014, at 18:45, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 5:02:15 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 17 Mar 2014, at 22:28, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, March 17, 2014 2:18:58 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 17 Mar 2014, at 17:50, Craig Weinberg wrote: I'm

Re: Gravity Wave Signature Discovered

2014-03-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Mar 2014, at 18:58, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: I think the argument usually goes like this: Suppose there's an infinite ensemble of the computations that include a mental state that remembers having been you as you are now. There are a lot of details needed to support such a mental

Re: Gravity Wave Signature Discovered

2014-03-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
Very nice Richard. Not easy read though, but you preach a choir. I believe that string theory is testable. Like comp. Yet, even if string theory is confirmed, we would still have to derived it from comp, if it is the real theory, and not a local panorama. Bruno On 19 Mar 2014, at

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Mar 2014, at 21:21, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 9:19:52 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 17 Mar 2014, at 23:19, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 3:46:23 PM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Mar 2014, at 13:03, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: I am

Re: Gravity Wave Signature Discovered

2014-03-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Mar 2014, at 23:06, meekerdb wrote: On 3/19/2014 9:32 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 17 Mar 2014, at 22:20, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: Sodid anyone's ToE predict this outcome? I am not sure you are 100% serious on this, but the question is very interesting, so I will make some

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Mar 2014, at 23:53, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: I still remember back maybe in the 1990's, having to keep a sick bucket nearby, for every tirme some daft comp scientist wheeled himself out to say consciousness was purely about processing speed. Remember that one? That was pretty big in

Re: Gravity Wave Signature Discovered

2014-03-20 Thread meekerdb
On 3/20/2014 11:32 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Mar 2014, at 23:06, meekerdb wrote: On 3/19/2014 9:32 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 17 Mar 2014, at 22:20, ghib...@gmail.com mailto:ghib...@gmail.com wrote: Sodid anyone's ToE predict this outcome? I am not sure you are 100% serious on

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: Gravity Wave Signature Discovered

2014-03-20 Thread Gabriel Bodeen
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 1:12:33 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: It looks like you have not yet grasped the UDA. My post was not about the UDA; your comments are appreciated but they miss the mark widely. -Gabe -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Entropy and curved spacetime

2014-03-20 Thread LizR
On 21 March 2014 05:10, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: Jesse Mazer laserma...@gmail.com Wrote: you made a sweeping statement that If there are 2 different states of the universe that could have produced things as they are now then the laws of physics are not reversible. Yes I

Re: Gravity Wave Signature Discovered

2014-03-20 Thread LizR
Lubos Motl has a good discussion of what's ruled out on his blog. http://motls.blogspot.co.nz/2014/03/bicep2-some-winners-and-losers.html Very interesting! (IF) -- 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 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: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-20 Thread LizR
On 21 March 2014 02:34, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Please remember, solar, to remediate, must replace all nat gas, all coal, all uranium, all petro that all cities and cars. What do you mean by this? Why couldn't solar replace SOME of the above? I'm sorry but you haven't really answered my

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-20 Thread LizR
On 21 March 2014 06:24, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Spud, Using firewood properly done does NOT disrupt the forest. I've used firewood for heating most of my life including currently. I use only dead trees from my own property (16 acres), not taking any with nesting holes. Only

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-20 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:55 AM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Very well, go ahead and power it all down. Shut off the cars, kill the lights, take a bike. Are you suggesting that we continue to burn filthy coal, or horrible uranium, while we try to goose up solar and wind to replace it?!! Why

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-20 Thread spudboy100
You have a point, Edgar, and you yourself do not have a bad effect on the environment. However, a billion and one half fellow firewood gatherers, might have a more profound impact, and they may do a bit more than chopping then you do. Following Maslow's hierarchy of needs, when peoples

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-20 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Spud, The best, likely the only, way to protect the environment is to drastically reduce human overpopulation. Down to pre-industrial levels would be a good target ~half to 1 billion... Anyway if we don't do it ourselves the environment will do it for us... Edgar On Thursday, March 20,

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-20 Thread spudboy100
Oh we can. However the environmentalists and their funders indicate that its all over, and kiss it all goodbye I profoundly disagree and guess that there's plenty of time before the shit hits the fan. Panic is the tool or those wishing to benefit from political rush to judgment. I submit that

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-20 Thread spudboy100
I am very ok with a transition, I believe we have the time. But I maintain that we won't get there with controlling people, but we can with innovations in technology. What I oppose is using AGW as an excuse to rule the serfs. Here's a break down from The Guardian, which you may guess is not

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-20 Thread spudboy100
Edgar, understood. But this shouldn't be the top of our priority, unless we are spreading homo sapiens to various parts of the solar system where humanity, and biomes, can be sustained for a very long time. Getting away from science fiction, there are things we can do until this golden

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-20 Thread LizR
Spudboy100, I'm not sure where you're coming from. You seem to agree that there is a looming environmental / resources problem, and that we should use technology to make a transition to more renewable energy sources and so on. And you agree that we should ideally reduce the population long term

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-20 Thread LizR
Sorry that should read equal opportunitie*d* - serves me right for throwing in a neologism. On 21 March 2014 14:23, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Spudboy100, I'm not sure where you're coming from. You seem to agree that there is a looming environmental / resources problem, and that we

Re: Modality Independence

2014-03-20 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 1:01:43 PM UTC-4, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: On Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:16:19 AM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:09:39 AM UTC-4, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: It formed increasingly high-level associations between bundles of sensory

Re: Gravity Wave Signature Discovered

2014-03-20 Thread LizR
An article on the secrecy involved. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/03/secret-bicep-inflation/ On 21 March 2014 11:58, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Lubos Motl has a good discussion of what's ruled out on his blog.

Re: Gravity Wave Signature Discovered

2014-03-20 Thread LizR
Yay! More gravity waves! [?] http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/01/wired-space-photo-of-the-day-2014#slide-id-513201:full On 21 March 2014 15:37, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: An article on the secrecy involved. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/03/secret-bicep-inflation/ On 21