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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18240 on: 13/03/2021 03:35:08 »
I don't know. The problem is that I somehow think that you deserve it. I shouldn't think that way but I do.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18241 on: 13/03/2021 03:53:47 »
" Trump’s final months in office saw a huge spike in new drilling permits after his administration sped up approvals. As a result, some companies with the biggest presence on public lands have announced that they are ready to weather changes under Biden.

An executive from Devon Energy told investors last month that the company was “ready to roll with the punches” and has about 500 drilling permits in hand. That will last the company for years in Wyoming and New Mexico.

“They expected this....They prepared for it,” said University of Oklahoma Associate Professor Robert Lifset, who teaches history of the U.S. energy industry. “But the difference now is going to be stark. (Oil and gas companies) don’t get to run energy and environmental policy in the way they once did.” "

Hmm, I will now put on a pointy hat and thoughtfully nod, then I think I will shake my head laughing at my naivety..

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-technology-climate-climate-change-cbfb975634cf9a6395649ecaec65201e
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18242 on: 13/03/2021 03:58:12 »
And traditional constructions of nuclear power plants.

" About 900 tons of melted nuclear fuel remain inside the three damaged reactors, and its removal is a daunting task that officials say will take 30-40 years. Critics say that’s overly optimistic. Separate efforts to remove spent fuel from cooling pools inside the reactor buildings were hampered by high radiation and debris and have been delayed for up to five years. If the plant’s pools lose their cooling water in another major quake, exposed fuel rods could quickly overheat and cause an even worse meltdown.

The melted cores in Units 1, 2 and 3 mostly fell to the bottom of their primary containment vessels, some penetrating and mixing with the concrete foundation, making removal extremely difficult. "

We could have had molten salt. Then again, where would our dooms day devices be? The ones that 'protect you'.

https://apnews.com/article/world-news-japan-tsunamis-5a5a70d852d2290d527123d3ec300c57
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18243 on: 13/03/2021 04:22:52 »
Compare it to this.  https://www.power-eng.com/nuclear/nuclear-researcher-perspective-reactors-worth-their-salt/
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« Reply #18244 on: 13/03/2021 11:44:24 »
Well yes, we can call it a trickle up too. If we define such as your government and industries, banks , companies etc do. From the many to the few.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18245 on: 13/03/2021 11:46:17 »
But I think trickle down is fitting here, thinking of how the game controls you, steering you away from choices that makes sense into choices that won't.
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« Reply #18246 on: 13/03/2021 11:48:16 »
Steering and defining your 'real politik', your industries, your politics.
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« Reply #18247 on: 13/03/2021 11:50:48 »
As for the BBC climate coverage in its headlines today?
None that I found. Would be fun with some statistics there.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18248 on: 13/03/2021 11:56:55 »
If you remember I got to a sort of conclusion to why physics thinks of the universe as consisting of 'fields'. I then used fields to point out that life in those fields becomes a emergence, pointing to a earlier reasoning I use. You're a 'field' of 'free will' inside other fields, sort of.

How's that for being a alien :)
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18249 on: 13/03/2021 12:07:36 »
You can either define it as 'dimensions' gets created out of it, as if a 'origin' is 'dimension less', or as if 'dimensions' are what creates our reality. Add or subtract, both ways are workable. You can also define time the same way, as a 'construct' depending on the four dimensional reality we find us to exist in, or, as something that must be 'pre-existing' if you want a universe. (If you do that you will have to differ time from clocks, with time becoming a 'law' of sorts, at least the way I think of it.)

Here's a example.  http://www.deepstuff.org/what-is-reality-emergence-theory-tries-to-explain/


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« Reply #18250 on: 13/03/2021 12:13:41 »
I prefer a definition in where everything coexist. The 'origin' as well as the 'end'. And I use clocks to define it from, and we need 'free will' to make it bearable. To do that you need a concept of infinity. Without a infinity of choices being possible you find yourself in a universe predefined, a clockwork mechanism in where you become a marionette.
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« Reply #18251 on: 13/03/2021 12:17:54 »
If the universe would be a clockwork free will would be non existent. So would good and evil. Nothing would matter for its evolution. You and your thought won't matter, your choices won't matter, nothing will.
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« Reply #18252 on: 13/03/2021 12:20:59 »
So we need to look at nature and who we are for it. You make choices, and then you act upon them, daily. Quantum mechanics finds probability to be a 'law'. The probability of a outcome, and so it is with all choices, they have a probability too, defined by your circumstances, life history, the 'water' you've been swimming in.
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« Reply #18253 on: 13/03/2021 12:22:41 »
And Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle is one of the defining moments of that law.
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If that would be transformed into something where all parameters could be set beforehand we would come one step closer to a predefined universe.
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« Reply #18255 on: 13/03/2021 12:28:22 »
So it's important, as is emergences, as is the speed of light in a vacuum, as is entanglements.
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« Reply #18256 on: 13/03/2021 12:30:19 »
They all becomes the definitions of how this universe works. And information, the speed of light is a limit of what we can call meaningful information, entanglement do not contain it, as far as we know.
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« Reply #18257 on: 13/03/2021 12:41:38 »
And if you want a universe that is infinite in all ways you can connect it. It needs infinities to have a free will existing. Anything else and free will won't be free anymore. That's not the same as stating that choices won't exist, but they will be limited. Maybe you can connect it to probabilities, becoming the logic that defines the universe we exist in. What we need to agree on there is that all probability's exist though, even if not becoming defined as a outcome.

but we also need a logic limiting us, rules, laws and properties.
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« Reply #18258 on: 13/03/2021 12:43:01 »
Without that your 'field' won't exist.
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« Reply #18259 on: 13/03/2021 12:54:33 »
It becomes a kind of contradiction. You need infinities for 'free will' but you also need limits to create the logic that defines our universe.
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