Solving our Dependancy

To remove our lust for oil.

Build smaller, intelligent and more efficient dwellings. On a small scale begin to build energy creating infrastructure. Makes our homes have a simple combination of solar, wind, organic and whatever creative forms of local power can be generated. Have that electricity pipe straight into our homes during times of use and when not have it create hydrogen from siphoned off rain water for storage when none of those power generating systems are working. Let the hydrogen we create run our cars (complemented by the many stations across the land). This equation is not one of amazing creation because I am sure the great minds of today have already created all of the items needed in one form or another...I am sure some fine tuning will be needed. This is more a game of numbers. Creating a system that can run at a profit for all of the individuals with the ability to bring something like this about.

Personal Energy Production

So much of it all comes down to energy...where it comes from and who controls it. We all work so we can sustain our lives. We work in order to pacify the desires we harbor. Throughout most of human (and near human) existence we have been dependent upon nature but nothing greater than our own hands controlled things in the end. Now we are dependent upon each other far more than we can conceive. So much of the system is built upon itself to allow for the various points of society to keep reaching out pulling us along that the maintenance of the creature itself has become a significant creature of its own, in a sense of course. And it just so happens, that in our version of the progressive complexity of matter story, energy is create by oil (for now) and our tools happen to run best on electricity and our society is based upon unlimited energy. Every once in a while we are reminded how utterly important it is (parts of New York have been without power for over a week now...remember the Northeast catastrophe a few years ago?) but usually we are passive in our appreciation.

Imagine being the source of energy. And imagine the people of the world were the sources of the energy to the government. 6,500,000,000 people making hydrogen just a little at a time would be pretty solid. Now I know that is pie in the sky...not all of the world will make their own. But we must remember that the amounts used per group will be only what they produce, at least once we have created a system that easy and intelligent enough to be distributed proportionatly world wide (...yeah, I do realize this is a tough one). But really all we are doing is creating a system to allow individuals to create their own energy and that is something worth our time.

Where do we go when we die?

I was asked…

Where does the energy from us go when we pass? Well…if you want an unromantic logical idea you have to simply understand that the energy that we live on (the electricity that races through our system) is produced by chemical reactions within our body, similar to a Duracell battery (remember that scene from The Matrix?). Now turn off the body and stop the chemical processes that go on within the system and electricity will no longer be produced. Of course there is power still left in the system on some level but that fades off into the environment in the form of heat that is created as a by product of the muscle movement (which is where the electricity steps in for one…). Simple…rational…logical.

But what about you? What about those things that make you unique? What about those pieces on the inside which are created as a by-product of the culmination of you? Your memory. The knowledge which you hold inside and continually access to explain your current. The troth of data that represents every experience of your like. How does the brain save this information? Are we like a harddrive? The physical manifestation of magnetism on a surface which turns either on or off. Are there basic little “1’s and 0’s” at the base of every synapse which flicker back and forth saving, cataloguing, adding to the count, sometimes deleting and sometime memorializing all of these experiences in the most basic fashion and reinterpreting them emotional every time they are introduced into from our memory back into our consciousness?

We do think there is a separation between long term and short term memory…you don’t need to save everything. Oddly similar to a computer in the hard drive/RAM sense. Which could mean that the hard drive that saves information in a mechanical format under a certain set of circumstances can be read externally by other devices. Can a brain be removed and the physical aspects of memory be read in a manner that would be interpreted? Or must it be sustained by the electrical reactions maintaining the position of parts (much like RAM)? It is probably the case that the shutting off of a body will soon lead to decay within the system (rusting anyone?).

Could one day we catalogue all of the knowledge of people by reading their physical structures externally? All knowledge of all beings instantly known among all minds.

Another "Next best thing since sliced bread..." edit A

Slight edit to the post the previous day talking about cars communicating electronically to each other in upcoming intersections...


Instead of the car having to communicate outward to get the attention of the radar system at the intersection, make the hardware in the middle of the intersection simply detect every vehicle coming and communicate it to people who haver recievers...to limit the system only to vehicles which are able to communicate outward to the hardware limits the usability of the system only between people and cars who BOTH have hardware...this way, the people who purchase the hardware can know that all vehicles, irrelevant of the purchasing history, that are approaching an intersection...jeez? C'mon now.

Another "Next best thing since sliced bread..."

Two part system...able to be retrofitted to all places where it would be applied. Built in a manner so that the cost is not burdened on the state as individuals will over time add them to their cars and manufacturers will include them as standards. It will save lives and increase productivity.

Piece number one is a sensor placed on the front of a car. The sensor sends out a signal up ahead that it is coming at all times. The sensor states the speed, direction, distance nad potentially the future movements of the vehicle. The sensor can also recieve signals and recognize what is being said. That information is then somehow communicated to the driver of the vehicle.

The second piece is located at an intersection. Either they can be hung from the current stop lights, stuck at the corners or just planted under the ground...doesnt really matter, there are many technologies in the world. The purpose of this piece is to collect the signal coming from the cars approaching the intersections and then forward that information all around to other peoples who are approaching the intersection.

What this does...it allows people to pre-emptively adjust their driving on approaches to intersections based upon data input from areas that they cannot necessarily see. As well, and this I think is of significant importance, it is a precursor to a system that will monitor intersection traffic on its own and take over your vehicle as it approaches. It will perfectly time all of the cars as they go through slightly speeding up or slowing down the vehicles as it sees fit to allow them to move through the intersection without stoplights. Again, increasing productivty as less time wil be lost in traffic, less pollution and giving to society more time. Very few investions truly give more time (even though the excess use of the car has led to this loss of time in the first place...it is truly only returning the taken time I guess...)

The Logical, Evolutionary Reason for Being Gay

I recently read an article in one of those new fangled online science websites that concluded that there is a higher prevalence of homosexuality when the measured individual has an elder sibling. What an interesting thing to show in numbers (because we all know everything is a giant math equation….).

 

This, in my head, entirely ends the argument. I have always tossed back and forth in my head, in my Darwinistic mentality, how we can choose against a certain trait, as not being attracted to the sex that has the ability to pass on you genes would definitely, over the long run, affect the viability of your genetics and yet still have a strong homosexual population. Well…lets break it down a little farther first.

 

We are all chemistry sets. We are put together inside of our mothers womb as a result of an amazing interaction (sperm meet egg). From this point on we are molded, uniquely EVERY single time – even perfectly matching twins have some differences (life doesn’t stop growing and molding at birth...) from an amazing concoction of chemicals and events and whatever else affects us. All of these things help write our programming, software, whatever it is you wish to use to define us as and from these we become.

 

So, as we are being splashed with testosterone and estrogen we are also taking cues from our mothers body which, in a genetic sense somewhere, already knows that she has had off-spring. From an overall evolutionary standpoint, the purpose of moving forward does not necessarily mean any particular individual in that society moves forward, but that the general genetic line does. What that means, is that it may be advantageous for an individual to be homosexual in a family because there is an elder sibling whose job it is to bear children.

 

So we get an amazing example of a genetic trait slipping under the radar of needing to be passed on as a reproductive trait because it is prevalent enough that it only needs to be activated when a very certain set of situations come up. Now every one will say explain why there are gay people with no siblings…easy answer…because the genetic trait is there and it comes through sometimes as a reaction to nature, it still has the possibility of coming through when the situation is slightly different and that is because nature is not always an exact science. It is a mixture of blended edges where rules are hazy and non defined.

 

The world, from a logical, rational standpoint related to evolutionary health, is better off because there are individuals within its societies who are not interested in a mate of the opposite sex.

If you ever get bored...

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My First Brain

The boxless Supercomputer

Why do server farms always have this weird look of being a warehouse? A bunch of white boxes stacked on shelves in very cold rooms. Why don’t they look like giant electronic brains?

Heh..

Ok…so what I believe should change next is the layout of computers in giant server farms. There should be no cases. A minimal number of pieces are actually needed to run each machine.

- Mainboard (includes CPU, RAM)
- Harddrives

That’s it.

What you say? Well…remember folks, a server farm. A computing center. Anyone read recently about the recent Google supercomputer location in the Northwest? The only purpose of these computers is to process. No entertainment needed.

So, no data readers are necessary – CD/DVD Roms, Floppy, alternative readers (its all on the network). No power supply is needed because the building has to get electricity down there somehow and I am sure a bit of intelligence could move the PSU far away to another room. Sound card? Video Card? What? Huh? Who cares what these computers have to scream or show to you.

And you could probably subdivide the two groups of hardware even further into their own special containment units (which of course you design to give easy access and identification). The differences between cooling harddrives and cooling processors are significant enough that intelligent process could be built and really smarten things up.

Water cooling is an interesting thing we do these days. Imagine that Google data center on the water there have a pipe coming from that cold river into the warehouse and running into smaller thinner fast moving ultra-cold (but just right to keep ice from forming) mini-tubes which would then be routed to run directly over the heads of the individual processors for purpose of cooling. With ingenuity, something like this could remove the needs for fans and electricity further…

And then at the end of the day, all we really have are a few components arranged in a continuing exact pattern going off into forever, as if an impossible Escher drawing. It would oddly begin to look like a giant brain (where each computer node would represent a single neuron). How many brain cells are there?

Goodnight…

Odd Invention: Receipt Grebber

Why is it that the banks and credit card companies are so simple in their information given in reference to your purchases? Why can't they read like a receipt so I **really** know what I am spending my money on and allowing me to fine tune my finances. now I know the real reason is that all that information is considered of great value from both a marketing and privacy standpoint that disseminating it like that is to give away gold...sooo...

Has anyone seen the recent Mastercard/Visa which allows you to "wave" you card in front of them to pay for stuff? Kinda like the Mobile card did for gasoline people (and I am sure in hundreds of smaller roll outs all over the world). Well, lets add the reverse and instead of getting paper receipts, get an exact data version of the receipt and have the ability to upload that information to intelligent software on my computer. A simple little keychain toy able to pick up a certain style of signal and store that data until it is requested later.

And then let me sell my information to the fucking marketers.