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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 16, 2020, 1:11 am
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"Elon Musk's plan to colonize Mars:"
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
[quote]His childhood reading included Isaac Asimov's Foundation
series from which he drew the lesson that "you should try to
take the set of actions that are likely to prolong
civilization[/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov
[quote]Asimov was born in Petrovichi, Russia,[19] on an unknown
date between October 4, 1919, and January 2, 1920, inclusive.
Asimov celebrated his birthday on January 2.[a]
Asimov's parents were Anna Rachel (née Berman) and Judah Asimov,
a family of Russian-Jewish millers. He was named Isaac after his
mother's father, Isaac Berman.[20] Asimov wrote of his father,
"My father, for all his education as an Orthodox Jew, was not
Orthodox in his heart", noting that "he didn't recite the myriad
prayers prescribed for every action, and he never made any
attempt to teach them to me".[21]
...
Asimov did, however, continue to identify himself as a secular
Jew, as stated in his introduction to Jack Dann's anthology of
Jewish science fiction, Wandering Stars: "I attend no services
and follow no ritual and have never undergone that curious
puberty rite, the Bar Mitzvah. It doesn't matter. I am
Jewish."[243][/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series
[quote]To implement his plan, Seldon creates the Foundations—two
groups of scientists and engineers settled at opposite ends of
the galaxy—to preserve the spirit of science and civilization,
and thus become the cornerstones of the new galactic
empire.[/quote]
See also:
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/other/racial-jewishness-archive-from-true-left-forum/
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 18, 2020, 2:46 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/human-ageing-process-biologically-reversed-153921785.html
[quote]Scientists in Israel showed they could turn back the
clock in two key areas of the body believed to be responsible
for the frailty and ill-health that comes with growing older.
As people age, the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes –
called telomeres – shorten, causing DNA to become damaged and
cells to stop replicating. At the same time, "zombie" senescent
cells build up in the body, preventing regeneration.
Increasing telemere length and getting rid of senescent cells is
the focus of many anti-ageing studies, and drugs are being
developed to target those areas.
Now scientists at Tel Aviv University have shown that giving
pure oxygen to older people while in a hyperbaric chamber
increased the length of their telomeres by 20 per cent, a feat
that has never been achieved before.
Scientists said the growth may mean that the telomeres of trial
participants were now as long as they had been 25 years earlier.
The therapy also reduced senescent cells by up to 37 per cent,
making way for new healthy cells to regrow. Animal studies have
shown that removing senescent cells extends remaining life by
more than one third.
"Since telomere shortening is considered the 'Holy Grail' of the
biology of ageing, many pharmacological and environmental
interventions are being extensively explored in the hopes of
enabling telomere elongation," said Professor Shai Efrati of the
Faculty of Medicine and Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv
University.
"The significant improvement of telomere length shown during and
after these unique protocols provides the scientific community
with a new foundation of understanding that ageing can indeed be
targeted and reversed at the basic cellular-biological
level."[/quote]
If we do not hurry up with destroying Israel, Jews will become
immortal.
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
By: rp Date: November 19, 2020, 5:02 am
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Truth about space debris:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itdYS9XF4a0
Thankfully, there is no biosphere to pollute and destroy in
space, but the possible impact of debris (due to excessive space
exploration) could destroy crucial communications satellites and
allow enemy states (e.g. Israel) to sabotage us. The solution of
course is not to send more satellites, but to ensure countries
conducting space exploration cease to exist, so that eventually
the need for satellites itself will disappear.
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
By: guest5 Date: November 30, 2020, 9:08 pm
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Omniviolence Is Coming and the World Isn’t Ready
[quote]Emerging bio-, nano-, and cyber-technologies are enabling
criminals to target anyone anywhere and, due to democratization,
increasingly at scale.[/quote]
[quote]In The Future of Violence, Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella
Blum discuss a disturbing hypothetical scenario. A lone actor in
Nigeria, “home to a great deal of spamming and online fraud
activity,” tricks women and teenage girls into downloading
malware that enables him to monitor and record their activity,
for the purposes of blackmail. The real story involved a
California man who the FBI eventually caught and sent to prison
for six years, but if he had been elsewhere in the world he
might have gotten away with it. Many countries, as Wittes and
Blum note, “have neither the will nor the means to monitor
cybercrime, prosecute offenders, or extradite suspects to the
United States.”
Technology is, in other words, enabling criminals to target
anyone anywhere and, due to democratization, increasingly at
scale. Emerging bio-, nano-, and cyber-technologies are becoming
more and more accessible. The political scientist Daniel Deudney
has a word for what can result: “omniviolence.” The ratio of
killers to killed, or “K/K ratio,” is falling. For example,
computer scientist Stuart Russell has vividly described how a
small group of malicious agents might engage in omniviolence: “A
very, very small quadcopter, one inch in diameter can carry a
one-or two-gram shaped charge,” he says. “You can order them
from a drone manufacturer in China. You can program the code to
say: ‘Here are thousands of photographs of the kinds of things I
want to target.’ A one-gram shaped charge can punch a hole in
nine millimeters of steel, so presumably you can also punch a
hole in someone’s head. You can fit about three million of those
in a semi-tractor-trailer. You can drive up I-95 with three
trucks and have 10 million weapons attacking New York City. They
don’t have to be very effective, only 5 or 10% of them have to
find the target.” Manufacturers will be producing millions of
these drones, available for purchase just as with guns now,
Russell points out, “except millions of guns don’t matter unless
you have a million soldiers. You need only three guys to write
the program and launch.” In this scenario, the K/K ratio could
be perhaps 3/1,000,000, assuming a 10-percent accuracy and only
a single one-gram shaped charge per drone.
Will emerging technologies make the state system obsolete?
It’s hard to see why not.
That’s completely—and horrifyingly—unprecedented. The terrorist
or psychopath of the future, however, will have not just the
Internet or drones—called “slaughterbots” in this video from the
Future of Life Institute—but also synthetic biology,
nanotechnology, and advanced AI systems at their disposal. These
tools make wreaking havoc across international borders trivial,
which raises the question: Will emerging technologies make the
state system obsolete? It’s hard to see why not. What justifies
the existence of the state, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes
argued, is a “social contract.” People give up certain freedoms
in exchange for state-provided security, whereby the state acts
as a neutral “referee” that can intervene when people get into
disputes, punish people who steal and murder, and enforce
contracts signed by parties with competing interests.
The trouble is that if anyone anywhere can attack anyone
anywhere else, then states will become—and are becoming—unable
to satisfy their primary duty as referee. It’s a trend toward
anarchy, “the war of all against all,” as Hobbes put it—in other
words a condition of everyone living in constant fear of being
harmed by their neighbors. Indeed, in a recent paper, “The
Vulnerable World Hypothesis,” published in Global Policy, the
Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom argues that the only way to
defend against a global catastrophe is to employ a universal and
invasive surveillance system, what he calls a “High-tech
Panopticon.” Sound dystopian? It sure does to me. “Creating and
operating the High-tech Panopticon would require substantial
investment,” Bostrom writes, “but thanks to the falling price of
cameras, data transmission, storage, and computing, and the
rapid advances in AI-enabled content analysis, it may soon
become both technologically feasible and affordable.” Bostrom is
well-aware of the downsides—corrupt actors in a state could
exploit this surveillance for totalitarian ends, or hackers
could blackmail unsuspecting victims. Yet the fact is that it
may still be a better option than suffering one global
catastrophe after another.
How can societies counterattack omniviolence? One strategy could
be a superintelligent machine—essentially, an extremely powerful
algorithm—that’s specifically designed to govern fairly. We
could then put the algorithm in political charge and, insofar as
it governs as something like a “Philosopher King,” not worry
constantly about the data collected being misused or abused. Of
course, this is a fantastical proposal. Even the real-world use
of AI in the justice system is fraught with problems. But at
this point, do we have a better idea for preventing the collapse
of the state system under the weight of widespread technological
empowerment?
Perhaps a completely new idea will emerge that can preserve the
current system—if we even want it preserved. Or perhaps emerging
technologies won’t empower people as much as I and others
anticipate. It could be that offensive technologies will
actually lag behind defensive technologies, making it very
difficult to execute a successful attack. It could also be that
before omniviolence and democratization undercut the state,
civilization collapses because of climate change-linked
stressors like lethal heatwaves, megadroughts, coastal flooding,
rising sea-levels, melting glaciers and polar ice caps,
desertification, food supply disruptions, disease outbreaks,
biodiversity loss, species extinctions, and mass migrations. If
we ended up living as hunter-gatherers again, the main worry
would be sticks and stones, not designer pathogens and
artificial intelligence.
Civilization is an experiment. We may not get the results we’re
expecting. So humanity would do well to hope for the best but
prepare for the worst. [/quote]
HTML https://getpocket.com/explore/item/omniviolence-is-coming-and-the-world-isn-t-ready?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
By: guest5 Date: November 30, 2020, 9:19 pm
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Why We Should Think Twice About Colonizing Space
[quote]To be sure, humanity will eventually need to escape Earth
to survive, since the sun will make the planet uninhabitable in
about 1 billion years. But for many “space expansionists,”
escaping Earth is about much more than dodging the bullet of
extinction: it’s about realizing astronomical amounts of value
by exploiting the universe’s vast resources to create something
resembling utopia. For example, the astrobiologist Milan
Cirkovic calculates that some 1046 people per century could come
into existence if we were to colonize our Local Supercluster,
Virgo. This leads Nick Bostrom to argue that failing to colonize
space would be tragic because it would mean that these potential
“worthwhile lives” would never exist, and this would be morally
bad.
But would these trillions of lives actually be worthwhile? Or
would colonization of space lead to a dystopia?[/quote]
[quote]In other words, natural selection and cyborgization as
humanity spreads throughout the cosmos will result in species
diversification. At the same time, expanding across space will
also result in ideological diversification. Space-hopping
populations will create their own cultures, languages,
governments, political institutions, religions, technologies,
rituals, norms, worldviews, and so on. As a result, different
species will find it increasingly difficult over time to
understand each other’s motivations, intentions, behaviors,
decisions, and so on. It could even make communication between
species with alien languages almost impossible. Furthermore,
some species might begin to wonder whether the proverbial
“Other” is conscious. This matters because if a species Y cannot
consciously experience pain, then another species X might not
feel morally obligated to care about Y. After all, we don’t
worry about kicking stones down the street because we don’t
believe that rocks can feel pain. Thus, as I write in the paper,
phylogenetic and ideological diversification will engender a
situation in which many species will be “not merely aliens to
each other but, more significantly, alienated from each
other.”[/quote]
[quote]Human beings have made many catastrophically bad
decisions in the past. Some of these outcomes could have been
avoided if only the decision-makers had deliberated a bit more
about what could go wrong—i.e., had done a “premortem” analysis.
We are in that privileged position right now with respect to
space colonization. Let’s not dive head-first into waters that
turn out to be shallow.[/quote]
HTML http://nautil.us/blog/-why-we-should-think-twice-about-colonizing-space
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 30, 2020, 11:08 pm
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[quote]To be sure, humanity will eventually need to escape Earth
to survive, since the sun will make the planet uninhabitable in
about 1 billion years.[/quote]
No. We should aim to have become extinct well before a billion
years later. We would be colossal failures if after a billion
years we still haven't managed to organize something so simple.
Seriously, why would we want to survive another 1000000000
years, let alone more?
[quote]For example, the astrobiologist Milan Cirkovic calculates
that some 1046 people per century could come into existence if
we were to colonize our Local Supercluster, Virgo. This leads
Nick Bostrom to argue that failing to colonize space would be
tragic because it would mean that these potential “worthwhile
lives” would never exist, and this would be morally bad.[/quote]
There is no such thing as a worthwhile life. No life chooses to
be born, therefore every life is a victim of initiated violence
by being born.
By the way, that is 10^46. Only Tanakh nuts can think that
enabling the initiated violence of
10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 additional
births per century is a good thing.
[img]
HTML https://thekingjamesversionbible.com/images/genesis-9-1-15[/img]
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Re: China and United States Relations
By: rp Date: December 4, 2020, 6:02 pm
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More Western attitudes from china:
New York Post : China plants its flag on moon before return trip
to Earth.
HTML https://nypost.com/2020/12/04/china-plants-its-flag-on-moon-before-return-trip-to-earth/
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 9, 2021, 12:37 am
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-now-worlds-richest-203807260.html
[quote]Elon Musk, crowned the world's richest person on
Thursday, has grand plans for his roughly $188 billion net
worth.
The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX plans to dedicate as much money as
he can to colonizing Mars, and he's selling most of his material
possessions in the process, the billionaire said last month in
an interview with Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Insider's parent
company, Axel Springer.
...
the billionaire also told Döpfner he was accumulating wealth not
for material possessions but to eventually fund a colony on
Mars.
"I think it is important for humanity to become a spacefaring
civilization and a multiplanet species. And it's going to take a
lot of resources to build a city on Mars," Musk said. "I want to
be able to contribute as much as possible to the city on Mars.
That means just a lot of capital."
To Musk, parting ways with his material possessions also signals
that he's committed to going to Mars.
...
The SpaceX founder has said he plans to send 1 million people to
Mars by 2050 and build a fleet of 1,000 Starships to ferry them
there. Musk aims to launch three of the 387-foot rockets SpaceX
is developing for deep-space travel each day.[/quote]
[img]
HTML https://res.cloudinary.com/faithlife-proxy/image/fetch/http%3A%2F%2Fbible.faithlife.com%2Fverseoftheday%2Fimage%2FGe6.18%3Fwidth%3D700[/img]
Who is willing to stop him?
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/firearms/
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
By: guest5 Date: January 9, 2021, 12:51 am
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Musk clearly wants to spread Trumps through the galaxy as much
as possible, any intelligent civilization out there may not take
too kindly to that idea....
Trump and Musk unite over Twitter, the moon and sticking it to
the establishment
[quote]The Silicon Valley environmentalist and the U.S.
president who shunned the Paris climate agreement are forming a
bond through Covid-19 and outer space.[/quote]
HTML https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/27/trump-musk-moon-space-283608
HTML https://static.politico.com/dims4/default/62822f6/2147483647/resize/1920x/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2Fb0%2Fb7%2F3c0f561d4ea98c59abca891bd52c%2F200526-trump-musk-ap-773.jpg
Trump and Musk both do weird shit with their lips... lol
STOP THESE WESTERN COLONIALISTS BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!!
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
By: guest5 Date: January 31, 2021, 5:59 pm
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Biden Plans to Keep Trump’s Space Force
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a6tgp1Vr28
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