Posts by BurnTheShips

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Population 7 billion. Changes ahead.

by Lion Cask in

according to the world population clock, we're going to hit the magic 7 billion number this year.

that's 7,000,000,000,000 living human beings on this planet.

the world is about to change, again.

BurnTheShips

I, too, like BTS's optimism because I believe it to be directionally correct.

We are at ground level, it is easy to get distracted by the near term problems, and there ARE near term problems. However, if you step up to 40,000 feet and gaze down, whatever the problems that have arisen in history, the general arc of it is upward and forward.

There's hope for fusion, but it's by no means a slam dunk.

Sure, but in the meantime we can have as much clean, non-weaponizable thorium (not uranium) based nuclear fission as we want, and we can start right now.

BTS

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Population 7 billion. Changes ahead.

by Lion Cask in

according to the world population clock, we're going to hit the magic 7 billion number this year.

that's 7,000,000,000,000 living human beings on this planet.

the world is about to change, again.

BurnTheShips

The prospect of that is exciting to me. However, if what you say comes true, the result will be more and more people.

Hi startingover. I disagree. Look at what has happened in most of the technologically advanced societies: birth rates have either reached or fallen below replacement levels. Even US population growth would be extremely low without immigration. The nations with rapid population growth are the poorer, less advanced ones.

Or in my case, I will just miss the threshold to benefit from the new life extending technology.

Take good care of your health, more and more of the things that can kill you will be fixable. If you can hold on long enough, you may be able to get over the hump. We already know how to dial back the biological clock in our cells.

This is not theory, the clock can be dialed back. It has been done in other species and in vitro with human cells. We are doing with human stem cells too.

However, since the FDA doesn't classify aging as a disease, it won't approve an agent to cure it as a a marketable medicine.

People are trying to find a workaround by identifying a natural agent to use instead, thus making a run around the FDA blocks.

http://www.sierrasci.com/

BTS

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Population 7 billion. Changes ahead.

by Lion Cask in

according to the world population clock, we're going to hit the magic 7 billion number this year.

that's 7,000,000,000,000 living human beings on this planet.

the world is about to change, again.

BurnTheShips

JWoods, you have a PM.

BTS

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Population 7 billion. Changes ahead.

by Lion Cask in

according to the world population clock, we're going to hit the magic 7 billion number this year.

that's 7,000,000,000,000 living human beings on this planet.

the world is about to change, again.

BurnTheShips

Something not mentioned yet: fresh water. We are likely to have another source of energy and transportation before running out of oil. There is no substitute for fresh water, though. And 7 billion people need a lot of clean fresh water.

With cheap, and virtually limitless energy, water won't be a problem.

I know nanotech researchers that have the technology to purify sea water for a fraction of the current cost, even today. Imagine a membrane one molecule thick, with the individual atoms attached to each other using covalent bonds such that the whole thing is a giant molecule, and so arranged that only H2O molecules are permeable. The pores of this membrane are of the size and shape of H2O molecules.

Pour sea water through this filter, and only pure water comes out the other end. All of the salts and other minerals become trapped. Food for thought: each ton of sea water contains about a gram of uranium, thorium, and many other useful elements. With a filter like this one, these become by products from fresh water production. No mining needed.

BTS

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Population 7 billion. Changes ahead.

by Lion Cask in

according to the world population clock, we're going to hit the magic 7 billion number this year.

that's 7,000,000,000,000 living human beings on this planet.

the world is about to change, again.

BurnTheShips

So. How do you think the world's going to change in the next, say, 50 years?

All infectious diseases will have cures.

All cancers will have cures.

All genetic diseases will have cures.

Short of a catastrophic brain injury which "wipes out memory", all tissue damage will be reparable.

We will solve the problem of human aging: by 2050 we will have the technology to live as long as we choose to.

There will be human beings that will use these biotechnologies to redesign their own bodies. There will be transhumans in 2050.

The above technologies will allow us to bring back extinct species, if we choose to.

The technologies that enable the above will also enable a new green revolution, which is right now in its early stages. If there is hunger in parts of the world, it won't be because there is not enough food to go around.

We will have practical, real world, artificial intelligence approaching or exceeding current human intelligence.

We will have nuclear fusion.

Nanotechnology will make most of the resource constraints of today obsolete. With precise atomic manipulation, we will be able to substitute scarce elements with common ones in many products.

The synergy of these things, and many others, means that we will have other things we can barely even imagine or predict today.

There will major social changes resulting from these advances, particularly life extension, and AI.

Society revolves around the inevitability of death. If death becomes rare, it will cause major upheavals in how human society functions.

AI and transhumanism will make us question what being human means.

However, life will be far better in 2050. Don't fear the future.

BTS

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Florida Holding No Refusal DUI Checkpoints. If You Refuse They Stick A Needle...

by minimus in

jw
friends

in your arm by judge's order.

(a judge will be there at the checkpoint) and of course, if you are legally drunk, you'll be arrested on the spot.. so this weekend in tampa, they'll be sticking needles in your arms if you refuse their demands.

they say they'll be heavily advertising the area that they'll be at over the holiday..

BurnTheShips

BTS, what does BAC mean?

Blood alcohol content.

Here in Florida, you can walk out of a bar after having tipped a few, and decide to sleep it off in the back seat of your car so that you don't drive under the influence.

Cool, right?

Nope. Cops cruise into the parking lot and bust you for DUI. Happened to someone I know.

BTS

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Florida Holding No Refusal DUI Checkpoints. If You Refuse They Stick A Needle...

by minimus in

jw
friends

in your arm by judge's order.

(a judge will be there at the checkpoint) and of course, if you are legally drunk, you'll be arrested on the spot.. so this weekend in tampa, they'll be sticking needles in your arms if you refuse their demands.

they say they'll be heavily advertising the area that they'll be at over the holiday..

BurnTheShips

Is this random checks? I'm okay with reasonable cause but not random tests.

Me too but this sounds random. They'll pick you out at the checkpoint, even if you are driving straight, and give you the full treatment. There is room for all kinds of abuse here.

http://www.wtsp.com/news/topstories/story.aspx?storyid=165079&catid=250

BTS

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Florida Holding No Refusal DUI Checkpoints. If You Refuse They Stick A Needle...

by minimus in

jw
friends

in your arm by judge's order.

(a judge will be there at the checkpoint) and of course, if you are legally drunk, you'll be arrested on the spot.. so this weekend in tampa, they'll be sticking needles in your arms if you refuse their demands.

they say they'll be heavily advertising the area that they'll be at over the holiday..

BurnTheShips

Despite what MADD propaganda would have you believe, in 1996 only .0000143 percent of the American population was killed in so-called "alcohol related" motor vehicle accidents where someone had a blood alcohol content as high as 0.10% . Government statistics indicate that each year more people die as a result of accidental drowning in America than die in low BAC related motor vehicle accidents. A recent study at a major U.S. university found that low BAC drinking drivers pose far less danger to public safety than do non-drinking drivers who have sleep apnea. In fact, your chances of being killed as a direct result of medical malpractice is 28 times higher than your chances of being killed in a motor vehicle accident involving a low BAC driver.

Despite the extremely low statistical threat to public safety posed by low BAC drinking drivers, more than 600,000 low BAC drivers are arrested and convicted for "drunk driving" in America each year.

Once arrested these otherwise law-abiding citizens are subjected to imprisonment; forced to pay huge fines and court costs; forced to pay the costs of probation; suffer unjust property forfeitures; forced to attend political re-education camps; subjected to psychological testing; forced to engage in involuntary forced labor; suffer government sponsored public humiliation; suffer the loss of driving privileges; suffer loss of respect for the courts and their government; suffer the loss of their jobs; their self esteem; and the destruction of their families.

This unfortunate state of affairs has been foisted upon America by an anti-alcohol, political action organization known as Mothers Against Drunk Driving, (MADD).

http://www.duigulag.com/

BTS

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Florida Holding No Refusal DUI Checkpoints. If You Refuse They Stick A Needle...

by minimus in

jw
friends

in your arm by judge's order.

(a judge will be there at the checkpoint) and of course, if you are legally drunk, you'll be arrested on the spot.. so this weekend in tampa, they'll be sticking needles in your arms if you refuse their demands.

they say they'll be heavily advertising the area that they'll be at over the holiday..

BurnTheShips

Burn the problem here is that they'll argue probable cause because you refused the breathalyzer.

Bullshit, puts me in a mood to drive up there (sober of course) and refuse it. Fuckers. It needs to be done, with the help of one of the civil rights groups to take it to court.

BTS

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Florida Holding No Refusal DUI Checkpoints. If You Refuse They Stick A Needle...

by minimus in

jw
friends

in your arm by judge's order.

(a judge will be there at the checkpoint) and of course, if you are legally drunk, you'll be arrested on the spot.. so this weekend in tampa, they'll be sticking needles in your arms if you refuse their demands.

they say they'll be heavily advertising the area that they'll be at over the holiday..

BurnTheShips

This needs to be challenged.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons...against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, but upon probable cause..."

BTS