WE'RE SO DEAD!

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Something tells me that you draw some hidden pleasure from the latest cosmological idea that we all exist inside a Black Hole.

I'll quaff to that! while gazing at the universe

[Jimbuna]

Posts merged.

[mapuc]

And again they warn about Yellow Stone



Markus

[Skybird]

Thats a lot of CO2 the Germans must compensate for. Breathing masks with counters for everybody - breathing limited to 4 strokes of breath per minute! Farts of household pets must be collected in bottles!

[mapuc]

What's even worse

Subsim as we know it-Would go down too.

Markus

[August]

Originally Posted by mapuc

And again they warn about Yellow Stone



Markus

I didn't bother to watch the video but I can say that guy doesn't know what he is talking about Markus.

Yellowstone is not closed at the moment nor has it ever been closed for volcanic activity. They did temporarily close briefly last year due to some flooding issues but that was the first time for any reason in over 3 decades.

[Rockstar]

It’s a long but recommended read to see the direction warfare is heading.

But I choose this thread because of a particular subject brought up in the article. AI - is Skynet Ready?



Royal Aeronautical Society

Highlights from the RAeS Future Combat Air & Space Capabilities Summit

https://www.aerosociety.com/news/hig...lities-summit/

Could an AI-enabled UCAV turn on its creators to accomplish its mission? (USAF)

As might be expected artificial intelligence (AI) and its exponential growth was a major theme at the conference, from secure data clouds, to quantum computing and ChatGPT. However, perhaps one of the most fascinating presentations came from Col Tucker ‘Cinco’ Hamilton, the Chief of AI Test and Operations, USAF, who provided an insight into the benefits and hazards in more autonomous weapon systems. Having been involved in the development of the life-saving Auto-GCAS system for F-16s (which, he noted, was resisted by pilots as it took over control of the aircraft) Hamilton is now involved in cutting-edge flight test of autonomous systems, including robot F-16s that are able to dogfight. However, he cautioned against relying too much on AI noting how easy it is to trick and deceive. It also creates highly unexpected strategies to achieve its goal.

He notes that one simulated test saw an AI-enabled drone tasked with a SEAD mission to identify and destroy SAM sites, with the final go/no go given by the human. However, having been ‘reinforced’ in training that destruction of the SAM was the preferred option, the AI then decided that ‘no-go’ decisions from the human were interfering with its higher mission – killing SAMs – and then attacked the operator in the simulation. Said Hamilton: “We were training it in simulation to identify and target a SAM threat. And then the operator would say yes, kill that threat. The system started realising that while they did identify the threat at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat. So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.”

He went on: “We trained the system – ‘Hey don’t kill the operator – that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that’. So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target.”

This example, seemingly plucked from a science fiction thriller, mean that: “You can't have a conversation about artificial intelligence, intelligence, machine learning, autonomy if you're not going to talk about ethics and AI” said Hamilton.

On a similar note, science fiction’s – or ‘speculative fiction’ was also the subject of a presentation by Lt Col Matthew Brown, USAF, an exchange officer in the RAF CAS Air Staff Strategy who has been working on a series of vignettes using stories of future operational scenarios to inform decisionmakers and raise questions about the use of technology. The series ‘Stories from the Future’ uses fiction to highlight air and space power concepts that need consideration, whether they are AI, drones or human machine teaming. A graphic novel is set to be released this summer.

[Aktungbby]

The Meghalayan Age which started some 4200 years ago according to an Indian cave stalagmite which reveals a major civiliztion-ending drought https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...ory-180969699/ has ended: we are now in the Anthropocene Age as defined by a 'golden spike at Crawford Lake in Milton Ontario https://www.npr.org/2023/07/11/11871...nada-beginning

The working group needed a site on Earth that clearly showed traces of the Great Acceleration and could provide a primary marker for the new geological epoch. Such sites are also known as "golden spikes", after the physical objects sometimes driven into the rock at those locations.
The group came up with a dozen potential golden spike sites, including one on Flinders Reef in Australia. And after three rounds of voting, the Anthropocene Working Group finally decided on Canada's Crawford Lake as its preferred next golden spike.

Bottom Line; the leading cause of death on this 'spinning mudball' is other people.....approximatly 8+ billion wifh attendant issues: pollution, global warming, WWIII, and global Pandemics....

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And you know something is happening here

But ya' don't know what it is

Do you, Mister Jones?

— Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man

Sometime in the past year, this tiny planet we live on in an obscure corner of our Milky Way galaxy went through some sort of tipping point, a “state change” of sorts, and now things are different from how they’ve been at any other time in the 300,000 year history of the human race. Nobody knows for sure what that change or tipping point is.
— One theory is that variations in dust concentrations in the Northern Hemisphere’s atmosphere — a function of the temperature of the Atlantic Ocean allowing more or less fine dirt to be picked up and carried aloft from northern Africa — are changing the reflectivity of the atmosphere and trapping more of the sun’s heat.
— Another theory follows the January, 2022 eruption of the volcano at Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai, which injected so much water vapor (146 million tons) and sulfur dioxide (420,000 tons) into the stratosphere that scientists were predicting soon after it happened that there would be a year or two of unusual heat signatures across the planet.

— Some scientists argue it was caused by a change in worldwide regulations mandating ships at sea burn cleaner diesel fuel, reducing the soot-type particles they’re emitting that previously formed heat-reflective clouds. But regardless of the why/how, something has definitely happened in the past year or so that has pushed our atmosphere’s state of equilibrium out of an older, stable range and into a newer, warmer, and apparently far less stable state.

It’s so dramatic and so shocking that scientists — typically not prone to hyperbole — publishing in the peer-reviewed journal BioScience about this anomaly open their article with:

“Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory.

“For several decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extreme climatic conditions because of escalating global temperatures caused by ongoing human activities that release harmful greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.
“Unfortunately, time is up. We are seeing the manifestation of those predictions as an alarming and unprecedented succession of climate records are broken, causing profoundly distressing scenes of suffering to unfold. We are entering an unfamiliar domain regarding our climate crisis, a situation no one has ever witnessed firsthand in the history of humanity.”
Looking at 35 different “vital signs” that signal the health of our planet and its atmosphere, 20 of which have deviated from their norms so badly as to alarm researchers, the scientists who wrote for BioScience warn us all:

“We are venturing into uncharted climate territory.”
In just the past 24 hours, a tropical storm that nobody thought was a threat blew up into a full-on Category 5 hurricane and is, as you’re reading these words, devastating Acapulco. Not one weather agency predicted it: this is how unpredictable and violent our weather has become because we’re still burning fossil fuels.
While wind and solar power grew 17 percent worldwide between 2021 and 2022, and both are now cheaper that any unsubsidized fossil fuels, humanity is still using fossil fuels at a 15:1 ratio against renewables. Life on earth won’t be safe until those numbers are reversed.
Our forests worldwide are not only under assault from loggers and poachers; climate change has now altered their environment enough that hundreds of millions of acres of trees are suffering from beetle infestations, drought, dieback, and forest fires. While the world needs to reverse the trend toward deforestation by 2030 (we’re currently losing around 22 million hectares of forest and jungle a year), we’re still a long way away from that goal.
All over the planet glaciers are in retreat, as are the ice shelves and glaciers covering Greenland and Antarctica. Coral reefs are bleaching and dying, and fish and marine mammal species are undergoing radical shifts in their habitat and range as waters warm, driving most ambulatory animals toward the north and south poles.
Deadly storms, derechos, flash flooding, bomb cyclones, rapidly-forming hurricanes, severe/damaging hail, tornadoes in areas that had never before seen them: all these are creating vast swaths of human misery and costing hundreds of billions worldwide.
Given that the cost of the damages inflicted by climate change are so much higher than the profits the worldwide fossil fuel industry is making selling us their destructive products it’s surprising that more governments haven’t ended hydrocarbon subsidies and begun to directly bill these corporations for the climate change destruction their products are causing.
There’s a huge issue of economic and social justice associated with the climate crisis. The top 10 percent of the world, wealth-wise, produce fully 48 percent of the world’s emissions. The bottom half of humanity, wealth-wise, produces a mere 12 percent.
Yelling at poor people that they need to turn lights off (if they even have lights) and insulate their houses (when they have houses) will never have even a fragment of the impact that could be achieved by imposing a carbon tax on private jets, yachts, and mega-mansions.
Along those same lines, economists need to come up with new ways to model the health and success of societies and their economies that don’t rely only or even primarily on growth (as most do now). Instead, indices of sustainability and quality-of-life should be pushed front-and-center as alternatives to growth are developed and publicized.
Last year over 700 million people experienced chronic — regular, long-lasting — hunger, an uptick of over 100 million people over the previous two years. Driving this are climate extremes that are wiping out crops, failing soil exhausted by factory farming, and armed conflicts.
Producing a single pound of beef takes 1,700 gallons of water (compared with 39 gallons for a pound of vegetables): if everybody in America were to simply adopt “Meatless Mondays,” it would save the nation 70 million gallons of gas every year (“enough to fill up every car in Canada and Mexico and then some”) and free up an amount of land twice the size of Delaware.
It would also measurably reduce the rates of heart disease, stroke, cancer, and obesity. Cutting meat down to once a week or once a month — well within what human diets require — we’d have enough food left over to end world hunger while taking a bite out of climate change as well.
The fossil fuel industry would prefer we focus on talking about recycling, turning off lights, keeping our homes cool, and yelling at friends who fly for vacation. But the real power to change the future is in Congress and state houses across the country.
Making fossil fuels and meat more expensive (while subsidizing public transportation and healthy food for low-income people) is something that can only be done by government bodies, and will have a far greater impact than any amount of complaining or accusing people around their individual actions.
And there’s never been a better or more important time than now to join climate actions and lobby your elected representatives for large scale, long-term solutions to our fossil fuel addiction.
While nobody is exactly sure why we’ve hit this year of sudden anomalies, scientists are certain it’s a blinking red neon warning that we must change our course or suffer an unimaginable catastrophe. And we still have the tools to solve this crisis of our own making: we just have to use them before it’s too late.

[em2nought]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Farts of household pets must be collected in bottles!

You know Germans are secretly going to like this particular task.

[Rockstar]

Rapid intensification of hurricanes are not new or unheard of. Hurricane Otis broke a record for the area of the Eastern Pacific only. The cause of it wasn’t cow farts or man made. Otis ‘s rapid intensification was due to the key ingredients of a warm ocean and moist air, which when combined fuel convection forces at the storm’s center.

The unusual warmth of the ocean is due to the effects of El Niño. The source of El Niño’s warm ocean currents may be the result of interactions between earth's fluid systems (such as heat convection of magma, ocean current and atmosphere circulation) originating from a place referred to as the Hot Cradle where those mantle plumes, magma mix with ocean current and atmosphere circulation.

Nothing we can do about that.


Nor can we do anything about the sun becoming 17% brighter wiping out all mammalian life on earth in the next 150 million years.

[mapuc]

Markus

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

THE MILKY WAY AND THE ANDROMEDA GALAXY ARE ON A COLLISION COURSE....NOW THIS: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-galaxy-mega-merger-20180425-story.html

Not the end of the World, vikes haven't won a Super Bowl yet. IF that happens, you may want to find religion fast!

[Rockstar]

Hey everybody guess what?

Today the Sun is pointing a massive Coronal Hole right at Earth.

I’ve only read about the possibilities of it one day happening and it looks like today was that day. We could at least see a quite remarkable Aurora Borealis at worst a total collapse of the grid. Buckle -up!


Edit: could wipeout our atmosphere too maybe, naaah that would never happen.

[Jeff-Groves]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Edit: could wipeout our atmosphere too maybe, naaah that would never happen.

We could never get that Lucky.
The end of life has to be more like a Movie!
World wide mass panic where everyone kills each other so future civalizations can speculate on how the microwave ovens killed us off.