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

[Kepler]

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

Scientists have found a way to bury carbon back into the Earth, and for good measure, the process can utilize the rising sea water.

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.

[ScoobyDoo]

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

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.

Lord knows we can't fund it.

[aparch]

Hopefully they keep improving. Good on the EU for funding it.

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.

[Kepler]

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

Crows' feats.

[dxmnkd316]

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

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.

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.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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.

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.

[Kepler]

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

I don't know why, but I've been fascinated by the Kardashev Scale for twenty years.

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.

[alfablue]

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

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.

It's been worse. From WWI to the Depression through to WWII- lots of unrest and deaths all over the world.

[dxmnkd316]

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

https://www.livescience.com/galaxies...noization.html

Cool.

[Kepler]

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

https://www.livescience.com/galaxies...noization.html

Cool.

Very cool. Thanks for posting it.

[Kepler]

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

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.

I don't think this is any sort of major transition. By the standards of great civilization movements we will live our lives in a very dull period. Everybody always thinks the period they live in is somehow special (see: the entire history of religion) but almost everybody lives and dies in periods of inertia. The last significantly transformative event in human history was the replacement of agriculture by manufacturing, which has been going on for upwards of 600 years. We have no idea what the next one will be since by definition we cannot imagine it. But they only happen about once every thousand years, so we're likely only at about the midpoint of the current era -- an uninteresting time.

The only thing I can see throwing a curveball into it is First Contact, and black swans don't count.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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

The last significantly transformative event in human history was the replacement of agriculture by manufacturing, which has been going on for upwards of 600 years. We have no idea what the next one will be since by definition we cannot imagine it. But they only happen about once every thousand years, so we're likely only at about the midpoint of the current era -- an uninteresting time.

I would say it's probably the continued replacement of grunt labor with more automation. Eventually, perhaps the development of true AI (actual, sentient machines and not just computers that can learn patterns).

[Kepler]

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

I would say it's probably the continued replacement of grunt labor with more automation. Eventually, perhaps the development of true AI (actual, sentient machines and not just computers that can learn patterns).

All of a piece.

First slaves, then animals, then machines. The freeing of humans from the drudgery of work is The Only Change. The movement of man from the limitation of nature to limitations imposed only by himself.

Another is the extension of thinking, which has been going on in parallel. First solitary heads, then language and direct contact, then writing and indirect contact, then computers and the abstraction of thinking to the non-human (which has also been going on in mathematics and philosophy for 8000 years). The replacement of superstition and religion with knowledge and science.

And of course the replacement of the strong and stupid by the clever and smart. The liquidation of the jocks and the triumph of the nerds. The end of the animal right and the beginning of the human left. In a word: civilization. The next evolution: habilis --> erectus --> Heidelbergensis --> sapiens ---> stellas.

[Kepler]

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Beautiful diary about the first photograph of an atomic bond.




Fig 1. Hello, friend.

[Kepler]

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

3000 year old Egyptian priest's voice sounds like the noise Snoopy made when he frenched Lucy.