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Jan 26, 2020
The Rich Are Preparing For The Apocalypse Better Than You | VICE on HBO
Posted by Derick Lee in category: existential risks
Throughout human history, doomsayers — people predicting the end of the world — have lived largely on the fringes of society. Today, a doomsday industry is booming thanks to TV shows, movies, hyper-partisan politics, and the news media. With the country’s collective anxiety on the rise, even the nation’s wealthiest people are jumping on board, spending millions of dollars on survival readiness in preparation for unknown calamities.
We sent Thomas Morton to see how people across the country are planning to weather the coming storm.
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Jan 23, 2020
🏺A while before the Sun was born
Posted by Fyodor Rouge in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, existential risks, particle physics
Fyodor R.
Scientists recently identified the oldest material on Earth: stardust that’s 7 billion years old, tucked away in a massive, rocky meteorite that struck our planet half a century ago.
🏺Stardust
Jan 23, 2020
NeoHuman Podcast: Evolutionary Cybernetics, Computational Physics and Consciousness Discussed
Posted by Brent Ellman in categories: augmented reality, cosmology, existential risks, physics, robotics/AI, transhumanism, virtual reality
Evolutionary cyberneticist and digital philosopher Alex M. Vikoulov, author of The Syntellect Hypothesis, is interviewed by Agah Bahari, host and producer of NeoHuman podcast.
On this recent podcast, Alex Vikoulov, author of The Syntellect Hypothesis, is interviewed by NeoHuman podcaster Agah Bahari. Topics include evolutionary cybernetics, computational physics, consciousness, the simulation theory, the transcension hypothesis, the Global mind, AGI, VR, AR, psychedelics, technological singularities, transhumanism, Fermi Paradox, Digital Physics, objective reality, philosophy of mind, the extended mind hypothesis, absolute idealism, physics of time, the Omega Point cosmology, mind-uploading, synthetic telepathy, and more.
Watch a short intro here ↴.
Jan 22, 2020
North Korea’s Nuclear Bomb Is Much Bigger than Previously Thought
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: existential risks, military, nuclear weapons
A new look at 2017 test data reveals an explosion 16 times as powerful than the one that leveled Hiroshima.
Scientists looking anew at a 2017 North Korean nuclear test discovered that the explosion was likely about two-thirds more powerful than U.S. officials previously thought.
Earlier data put the yield somewhere between 30 and 300 kilotons; the U.S. intelligence community said 140 kilotons. That was already the most powerful device tested by North Korea, topping a 2016 test by about an order of magnitude. But a new look at seismological data suggests that the blast was between 148 and 328 kilotons, and probably around 250 kilotons.
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Jan 22, 2020
Nuclear Annihilation Simulation Predicts 90 Million Deaths in First ‘Few Hours’
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: existential risks
Welp o.o if we got a global emp we could disable all nukes.
This nuclear war simulator predicts what would happen in the first few hours of a major conflict between Russia and the U.S.
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Jan 22, 2020
The Air Force Is Developing An ‘EMP Missile’ To Fry North Korea’s Nukes
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: existential risks, military
Circa 2017
One of the options that the United States is looking at to counter North Korea’s nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles is an experimental weapon called CHAMP.
Jan 13, 2020
7 Billion-Year-Old Stardust Is Oldest Material Found on Earth
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, existential risks, space travel
Scientists recently identified the oldest material on Earth: stardust that’s 7 billion years old, tucked away in a massive, rocky meteorite that struck our planet half a century ago.
This ancient interstellar dust, made of presolar grains (dust grains that predate our sun), was belched into the universe by dying stars during the final stages of their lives. Some of that dust eventually hitched a ride to Earth on an asteroid that produced the Murchison meteorite, a massive, 220-lb. (100 kilograms) rock that fell on Sept. 28, 1969, near Murchison, Victoria, in Australia.
Dec 31, 2019
The Orion Cube: An extraterrestrial device hidden by the US
Posted by Brent Ellman in categories: alien life, existential risks, government, military
Fun topic, real or not.
Dan Burisch, a doctorate in microbiology and former worker of the secret military forces of the United States, details great puzzling information about extraterrestrials, the Orion Cube, time machines, secret government plans and human extinction.
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Dec 30, 2019
Apocalypse Then: When Y2K Didn’t Lead To The End Of Civilization
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: computing, existential risks, government, internet
For a time 20 years ago, millions of people, including corporate chiefs and government leaders, feared that the internet was going to crash and shatter on New Year’s Eve and bring much of civilization crumbling down with it. This was all because computers around the world weren’t equipped to deal with the fact of the year 2000. Their software thought of years as two digits. When the year 99 gave way to the year 00, data would behave as if it were about the year 1900, a century before, and system upon system in an almost infinite chain of dominoes would fail. Billions were spent trying to prepare for what seemed almost inevitable.
Twenty years ago, the world feared that a technological doomsday was nigh. It wasn’t, but Y2K had a lot of prescient things to say about how we interact with tech.
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