Archive for the ‘existential risks’ category: Page 103
Jun 25, 2015
We Are 100%, For Sure, in the Middle of a Major Extinction Event — Kaleigh Rogers | Motherboard
Posted by Seb in categories: environmental, existential risks, human trajectories
“Even using conservative estimates, the researchers found that the rate of extinction in the last 115 years is as high as 50 times what it would be under normal circumstances.” Read more
Jun 24, 2015
NASA Plans To Use Nukes On Potential Doomsday Asteroid
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: existential risks, space
If NASA has its way, the human race won’t be going the way of the dinosaurs any time soon.
The space agency is teaming up with the National Nuclear Security Administration to work on a planetary defense plan to deflect a potential doomsday asteroid so it doesn’t strike Earth, according to The New York Times.
Jun 19, 2015
The sixth mass extinction is here, say Stanford researchers
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: existential risks, futurism
Jun 15, 2015
Scientists Are Crowdfunding Spacecraft To Blast Asteroids Out Of The Sky — By Loren Grush Popular Science
Posted by Seb in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, defense, existential risks
It’s the ultimate doomsday scenario: Astronomers spot an enormous miles-wide asteroid headed for a collision course with Earth. An impact with our planet means a fiery goodbye to civilization—and life—as we know it, and there are only a few short weeks to rally together a plucky group of oil drillers the citizens of the world to somehow fight this apocalyptic threat.
Fortunately, it’s doubtful we’ll ever be faced with this kind of sudden Armageddon. NASA, other government space agencies, and astronomers across the world have a pretty solid way of tracking huge, civilization-destroying asteroids, mapping their trajectories many years or decades in advance before they might head our way. Such ample warning would give us more than enough time to prepare some kind of deflection strategy. Read more
Jun 13, 2015
Meet the people out to stop humanity from destroying itself
Posted by Jeremy Lichtman in category: existential risks
More research has been done on dung beetles and Star Trek than human extinction. These people want to change that.
Jun 1, 2015
Is it Ethical to heal a young white Elephant from his physiological Autism?
Posted by Otto E. Rössler in categories: existential risks, particle physics
Is it Ethical to heal a young white Elephant from his physiological Autism?
Otto E. Rossler1, Cony Theis², Jürgen Heiter1, Werner Fleischer1 and Anonymous Student²
1University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 8, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
²University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Im Wiestebruch 68, 28870 Ottersberg, Germany
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May 27, 2015
An Homage to CERN’s John Bell
Posted by Otto E. Rössler in categories: existential risks, particle physics
Heraclitus’ Saying “The Wartime-Slaughterer is the Father of Everyone”: almost confirmed through Einstein’s Intuition
Otto E. Rossler
Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Tubingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 14, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
Abstract
May 25, 2015
Dear young Physicists and Architects
Posted by Otto E. Rössler in categories: existential risks, particle physics
Dear young Physicists and Architects: Please, picture a frictionless Wheel that is lowered reversibly in Gravity
Otto E. Rossler
Faculty of Mathematics and Science, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
Abstract
May 4, 2015
No one knows at what Likelihood Black Holes will be produced in June at CERN
Posted by Otto E. Rössler in categories: existential risks, particle physics
But if so, it means the end of earth soon. This frequently published result is contradicted by no one in physics. The lobby just bets on the media remaining quiet.
It is ironic that so many physicists take their children hostage. This is because the media do not ask them why they are not afraid. For then they would start to stutter and their children would begin to ask questions. Even Stephen Hawking could no longer afford to skirt the issue.
The ultimate reason, of course, is Einstein. He alone can help. The “happiest thought of my life,” as he always said, has a further consequence (c-global). Ask your teachers about it. You will learn they have no idea. This is at the root of the problem: irrational dogmatism. Worse to date than in the middle ages because the consequences do not hurt a minority of women: this time around everyone is the victim.
The poor witches on the stakes probably foresaw it all since no one else had a closer look at the nature of human society. So only in Auschwitz later on, after the doors were closed. Please, do change your attitude, poor consensus-based society without a heart: Why not show the world that you love your children, my dear physicist colleagues? Do stand the trial that you are under in the face of a watching globe!
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