RE: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-17 Thread spudboy100
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Re: Universal Programming

2014-03-17 Thread Gabriel Bodeen
On Sunday, March 16, 2014 1:10:19 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Mar 2014, at 17:31, meekerdb wrote: On 3/16/2014 12:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: That's correct, but we assume usually classical quantum mechanics. Then, even if GR digitalizes the access to futures, it

Re: Universal Programming

2014-03-17 Thread David Nyman
On 17 March 2014 13:56, Gabriel Bodeen gabebod...@gmail.com wrote: If there isn't already, there needs to be some fiction about Buddhist comp-believers trying to escape immortality. To quote Wikipedia: In Indian religions, the attainment of nirvana is moksha, liberation from the cycle of

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-17 Thread spudboy100
At some point, Pierz, one has to use one's senses. This is part or the scientific endeavor as well. Observe, record, and measure, hopefully in common units, milibars, meters, kilograms, parsecs. But one must observe and try to make sense of things. Just as the oil companies say no, no, no, we

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

2014-03-17 Thread spudboy100
Yes, they do have a paper that eating resources will doom us. They also claimed that they had proof of Martian life in 1996 that has since been disregarded. I am guessing that the report had nothing to say about the substitution of easily, depleted resources being replaced with different

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
Personally, I am more in fear of nuclear war then I am about environmental devastation. This is not to say the natural world is not in big trouble because of human encroachment, but for Maslows hierarchy of needs, my fear is that humans disappear, and the weeds and rats and insects take over,

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

2014-03-17 Thread spudboy100
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 that attempt to problem solve, we may come up with a

Re: Video of VCR

2014-03-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Mar 2014, at 19:30, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 12:05:50 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Mar 2014, at 13:52, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 3:41:30 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Mar 2014, at 05:17, Craig Weinberg wrote: On

Re: Universal Programming

2014-03-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Mar 2014, at 22:26, LizR wrote: On 17 March 2014 05:31, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/16/2014 12:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: That's correct, but we assume usually classical quantum mechanics. Then, even if GR digitalizes the access to futures, it seems to me that QM will

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: Video of VCR

2014-03-17 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, March 17, 2014 12:19:23 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Mar 2014, at 19:30, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 12:05:50 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Mar 2014, at 13:52, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 3:41:30 AM UTC-4, Bruno

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 of

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Mar 2014, at 23:14, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 4:38:42 PM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 3:26:46 PM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: At

Re: Video of VCR

2014-03-17 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, March 16, 2014 12:37:39 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Mar 2014, at 14:10, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 3:40:49 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Mar 2014, at 23:09, Craig Weinberg wrote: http://www.jesseengland.net/index.php?/project/vide-uhhh/

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-17 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, March 17, 2014 12:58:44 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Mar 2014, at 23:14, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 4:38:42 PM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comwrote: On Sunday, March

Re: The Dalai Lama's Ski Trip

2014-03-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Mar 2014, at 04:45, Chris de Morsella wrote: -Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 2:14 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The Dalai Lama's

Re: Universal Programming

2014-03-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Mar 2014, at 15:10, David Nyman wrote: On 17 March 2014 13:56, Gabriel Bodeen gabebod...@gmail.com wrote: If there isn't already, there needs to be some fiction about Buddhist comp-believers trying to escape immortality. To quote Wikipedia: In Indian religions, the attainment of

Re: Video of VCR

2014-03-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Mar 2014, at 17:50, Craig Weinberg wrote: If someone said that they were agnostic about God, would I be wrong in thinking that they do *not* assume God's presence or absence? To say that you assume comp and are agnostic about it would seem to be a contradiction. You have a lot of

Re: Video of VCR

2014-03-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Mar 2014, at 17:50, Craig Weinberg wrote: I'm mirroring back to you what my impression is of what you say to me. I say it is obvious that machines are impersonal, cold, mechanical, and that it is obvious that sophisticated technology can be developed that will make them seem less

Re: Video of VCR

2014-03-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Mar 2014, at 18:11, Craig Weinberg wrote: I don't think it needs to be an experience to compute though. In real life it does need to be an experience, because I think that it is the experience which underlies all computation and arithmetic rather than the other way around. In the

Re: First direct evidence of cosmic inflation

2014-03-17 Thread Chris de Morsella
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140317125850.htm First direct evidence of cosmic inflation Date: March 17, 2014 Source: Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Summary: Almost 14 billion years ago, the universe we inhabit burst into existence in an extraordinary event that

Re: First direct evidence of cosmic inflation

2014-03-17 Thread LizR
[image: Inline images 1] Wow. That is so cool, the first (sort-of) direct detection of gravitational waves, as opposed to infering their existence from binary neutron stars' orbital decay. (This is kind of parallel to how the neutrino was discovered, come to think of it.) That pattern looks so

Gravity Wave Signature Discovered

2014-03-17 Thread Kim Jones
Inflation appears now to be evidenced http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gravity-waves-cmb-b-mode-polarization/?utm_source=hootsuiteutm_campaign=hootsuite Kim Jones B.Mus.GDTL Email: kimjo...@ozemail.com.au Mobile: 0450 963 719 Landline: 02 9389 4239

Re: Gravity Wave Signature Discovered

2014-03-17 Thread ghibbsa
Sodid anyone's ToE predict this outcome? On Monday, March 17, 2014 9:14:00 PM UTC, Kim Jones wrote: Inflation appears now to be evidenced http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gravity-waves-cmb-b-mode-polarization/?utm_source=hootsuiteutm_campaign=hootsuite

Re: Gravity Wave Signature Discovered

2014-03-17 Thread Kim Jones
OK - so I should have written Gravitational Wave (Gravity waves are something else.) K On 18 Mar 2014, at 8:14 am, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Inflation appears now to be evidenced

Re: Video of VCR

2014-03-17 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, March 17, 2014 2:17:01 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 17 Mar 2014, at 17:50, Craig Weinberg wrote: If someone said that they were agnostic about God, would I be wrong in thinking that they do *not* assume God's presence or absence? To say that you assume comp and are

Re: Video of VCR

2014-03-17 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, March 17, 2014 2:31:32 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 17 Mar 2014, at 18:11, Craig Weinberg wrote: I don't think it needs to be an experience to compute though. In real life it does need to be an experience, because I think that it is the experience which underlies all

Re: Video of VCR

2014-03-17 Thread Craig Weinberg
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 mirroring back to you what my impression is of what you say to me. I say it is obvious that machines are impersonal, cold, mechanical, and that it is obvious that

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-17 Thread ghibbsa
On Sunday, March 16, 2014 3:46:23 PM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Mar 2014, at 13:03, ghi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 7:24:10 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Mar 2014, at 13:22, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: I don't feel so much cloaked in the Popperian

Re: Gravity Wave Signature Discovered

2014-03-17 Thread ghibbsa
On Monday, March 17, 2014 9:21:20 PM UTC, Kim Jones wrote: OK - so I should have written “Gravitational Wave” (Gravity waves are something else.) K Oh, thanks for saying thatI thought they meant gravity waves. Which - I thought - was a major prediction of Inflation. -- You

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: Gravity Wave Signature Discovered

2014-03-17 Thread LizR
Only if you're being very nitpicky... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_wave I would say in the context of astrophysics or cosmology, everyone should know what your mean if you say gravity wave (i.e. you mean a gravitational wave). And it's shorter to type. On 18 March 2014 10:21, Kim

Re: Gravity Wave Signature Discovered

2014-03-17 Thread LizR
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2014-05 On 18 March 2014 11:24, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, March 17, 2014 9:21:20 PM UTC, Kim Jones wrote: OK - so I should have written Gravitational Wave (Gravity waves are something else.) K Oh, thanks for saying thatI thought they

Re: Gravity Wave Signature Discovered

2014-03-17 Thread LizR
This is very cool. Gravitational waves and inflation in one feel swoop. (Well, a 3-year fell swoop.) On 18 March 2014 12:20, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2014-05 On 18 March 2014 11:24, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, March 17, 2014 9:21:20 PM UTC,

Re: Gravity Wave Signature Discovered

2014-03-17 Thread LizR
You might also like to see Chris de Morsella's post. I'm not sure how to link to it but the title is First direct evidence of cosmic inflation On 18 March 2014 12:21, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: This is very cool. Gravitational waves and inflation in one feel swoop. (Well, a 3-year fell

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: Gravity Wave Signature Discovered

2014-03-17 Thread LizR
Scientific American said Gravity Waves in the page title so I wouldn't worry too much! On 18 March 2014 10:21, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: OK - so I should have written Gravitational Wave (Gravity waves are something else.) K On 18 Mar 2014, at 8:14 am, Kim Jones

Re: Gravity Wave Signature Discovered

2014-03-17 Thread LizR
Mind you BICEP2 is a rubbish acronym. On 18 March 2014 13:12, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Scientific American said Gravity Waves in the page title so I wouldn't worry too much! On 18 March 2014 10:21, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: OK - so I should have written Gravitational

Re: Gravity Wave Signature Discovered

2014-03-17 Thread LizR
What's wrong with SPOTS detector (Swirly Pattern On The Sky) ? :-) On 18 March 2014 14:11, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Mind you BICEP2 is a rubbish acronym. On 18 March 2014 13:12, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Scientific American said Gravity Waves in the page title so I wouldn't

Re: First direct evidence of cosmic inflation

2014-03-17 Thread meekerdb
The interesting question is which cosmogony models are ruled out by this. I think it rules out the d-brane collision models and maybe other string based models. Brent On 3/17/2014 2:10 PM, LizR wrote: Inline images 1 Wow. That is so cool, the first (sort-of) direct detection of gravitational

Re: First direct evidence of cosmic inflation

2014-03-17 Thread LizR
On 18 March 2014 14:16, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: The interesting question is which cosmogony models are ruled out by this. I think it rules out the d-brane collision models and maybe other string based models. That is absolutely the most interesting question. Cosmology is on

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-17 Thread LizR
On the subject of environmentalists wanting to save the planet even at the expense of the human race, it's heartening to see the latest missive from Greenpeace, which starts... Nobody wants tigers to go extinct, but consider this; *without healthy forests our own survival may also be under

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.

Fwd: video of Andrei Linde hearing gravity wave news

2014-03-17 Thread meekerdb
Neat! Original Message Here is a Stanford video you might like to watch of Andrei Linde hearing the news about gravity waves. Enjoy. http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/17/5518346/first-evidence-gravitational-waves-supports-big-bang-inflation -- You received this message