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Science: Everything explained by PV=nRT, F=ma=Gm(1)•m(2)/r^2

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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
*shrug*

China beat them to it.
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I assume in China they just put the chips directly in the heads, for the good of the hive.
 
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Kepler said:
I assume in China they just put the chips directly in the heads, for the good of the hive.
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Pretty close. They're already waaaaay ahead of the West on artificial intelligence because of all the data they're allowed to collect on their citizens without even asking permission.

Plus, what do you think all those "re-education" camps for the Uyghurs and Tibetans are leading to?
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Plus, what do you think all those "re-education" camps for the Uyghurs and Tibetans are leading to?
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They wouldn't be necessary if only they built a wall.
 
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Kepler said:
Holy crap, dolphins! :eek: The hell are they doing that deep?
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Why the hell are there penguins going more than 200m deep?
 
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aparch said:
Scientists have found a way to bury carbon back into the Earth, and for good measure, the process can utilize the rising sea water.
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It's not a breakthrough, it's research that has been ongoing for 40 years. They've been making incremental improvements in capture and cost. Hopefully they keep improving. Good on the EU for funding it.
 
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Kepler said:
It's not a breakthrough, it's research that has been ongoing for 40 years. They've been making incremental improvements in capture and cost. Hopefully they keep improving. Good on the EU for funding it.
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Lord knows we can't fund it.
 
Kepler said:
Hopefully they keep improving. Good on the EU for funding it.
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Scaling it up will be interesting, and once it starts taking large volumes, there will be an explosion of companies wanting to profit from this. Especially *if* carbon taxes continue to rise.

With it being volcanic rock, the Pacific Northwest is going to be the front runner in this.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Why is there so much unrest in the world right now? It just feels like everything is on a razor thin wire and it's ready to snap.

I have a general unease about the world right now. It's not good.
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Are we transitioning? Read especially the section about Civilization implications. Or is this just a normal ebb and flow? Are the social aspects of climate change finally taking hold?

In my life, I don't remember such a worldwide unrest. Previously safe countries are regressing back to violence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

I don't know why, but I've been fascinated by the Kardashev Scale for twenty years.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Are we transitioning? Read especially the section about Civilization implications. Or is this just a normal ebb and flow? Are the social aspects of climate change finally taking hold?

In my life, I don't remember such a worldwide unrest. Previously safe countries are regressing back to violence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

I don't know why, but I've been fascinated by the Kardashev Scale for twenty years.
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I think the massive wealth inequality is part of it.
I feel like not enough people comprehend the climate issues yet to have that be a cause. Yet.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
I don't know why, but I've been fascinated by the Kardashev Scale for twenty years.
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Me too. But we aren't anywhere near a transition on Kardashev. We are something like a .7 energy consumption but we have a .6 economy and a .5 political structure.

I think it's more likely we are reaching an upper bound on global inequality. We are producing a tremendous amount of goods and energy but they are being funneled to benefit very few. That sort of inequality develops so much internal stress that either the whole system collapses or there is a "liquid" period in which control re-congeals. It's the only time the powerful actually lose power. We've seen this happen before with the birth of agriculture (the end of warlords and the beginning of kingship), global trade (the end of kingship and the beginning of the state) and then industrialization (the beginning of capitalist-pseudo-democracy). Transitions don't have to be violent but I think they are always unsettling and probably have massive migrations because the whole world doesn't transition at once and because the Ancien Regime hangs on like grim death in some places for centuries.

Add climate catastrophe and we've got the makings of a genuine climax of an era and then either a regression after violence (if the right wins) or a reallocation of resources and control and then an advance to the next stage of human development (if the left wins). I don't think the latter will happen dramatically -- I think we'll wake up in 300 years in a different world, no doubt with new problems and new masters just a smidge better than today's. There will still be "states" of some type but ethnic nations and corporations will probably no longer exist. Cultural differences like language and religion will always be with us but will warp in the new contours of life (while insisting they are fundamental and changeless). Maybe the level of every day violence will decrease even as the state's ability to inflict it grows greater. Maybe intelligence will creep up a little as the hindmost perish by their own poor choices.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Are we transitioning? Read especially the section about Civilization implications. Or is this just a normal ebb and flow? Are the social aspects of climate change finally taking hold?

In my life, I don't remember such a worldwide unrest. Previously safe countries are regressing back to violence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

I don't know why, but I've been fascinated by the Kardashev Scale for twenty years.
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It's been worse. From WWI to the Depression through to WWII- lots of unrest and deaths all over the world.
 
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