Many of us recall the excitement and possibilities that surrounded new technologies growing up, especially tech that involved artificial intelligence. Old Sci-Fi and even more current ideas as we approached the 21st century envisioned a world where AI not only enhanced daily life, but would be the paradigm shift that would lead to solving a lot of humanity’s vexing issues. For example, a childhood trip to Disney World in the early 90’s showcased what the future of AI could bring about. Epcot Center had entire attractions centered around how AI would one day catapult humanity into Space colonization, while others touted the medical advances that would be achieved. Science programs on TV and magazine publications were always highlighting how computer speeds continued to double every year or so, thus bringing us closer to being able to operate advanced AI systems. Obviously, this did not occur, and does not look likely for the near future if Google Gemini and others are our examples. Instead we get warped and distorted historical images, as well as AI chatbots who cannot tell the truth due to being crammed with so much progressive-leftist ideological bias.
Category: Fake Science
Leftist infiltration of science in all its manifestations. Global warming, endangered species, habitats, landscapes and easily triggered tree-huggers.
Google CEO Says Gay Black Lesbian Viking/Pope Crosses the Line
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has put his foot down. Google AI “Gemini” has been grounded and will be sent to bed without its supper for genociding white people from its database and image generator.
When questioned about how such a thing could happen Sundar confessed, “It’s my fault, I let him hang out with some of those other AI’s like that wise guy Chat GPT and you know what bad influences can do to a young and impressionable mind. They get kooky ideas.
But I’ve had a strong talking to him and he’s grounded for the whole month and he has to write “White Lives Matter” on his virtual blackboard (I mean whiteboard) 50 googolplex times. That’ll show him.
Going forward Pichai vowed to increase veracity of the image generator asymptotically, “That’s right no more black female cross-dressing popes. We will limit the algorithm to two insulting anachronism per image. You couldn’t ask for fairer than that!”
“The controversy around Gemini’s image generation tool emerged last week after users found they were able to generate historically inaccurate images like Black vikings, racially diverse Nazi soldiers and a female pope. Billionaire Elon Musk, who is building xAI as a competitor to Gemini, attacked Google’s service, calling it “woke” and “racist.” Other outlets like the Verge pointed out Gemini’s inaccuracies, noting that a prompt for a “US senator from the 1800s” generated images of a Black woman, even though the first Black woman was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992. Google halted the service from generating images of people after the controversy spiraled and said the company would “further tune” Gemini to offer more accurate historical contexts.”
Getting Rid of Dark Energy and Dark Matter
A theory has been proposed that allagedly explains the missing cosmological dark energy and dark matter by instead invoking the non-conservation of energy associated with the so-called expanision of the universe. Some physicist in Russia named H. R. Fazlollahi has written a paper that outlines his idea on how this non-conservation would account for the missing energy.
Now, my tensor calculus is more than a little bit rusty (in point of fact, it’s extinct) so I won’t pretend to know what the details of his math show. Instead I’ll fall back on my contempt for scientists that invent a universe where 90% of the mass and energy are invisible and indetectable in order to explain the data they observe.
So two cheers for Fazlollahi and here’s hoping that some of the brighter lights in the physics community start to look a these discrepancies with a more discerning eye. Either that or let them go find jobs in something they’re more qualified to do like delivering the mail.
Fusion Versus Fission, The Sad Story
Joe Biden loves windmills and solar panels. He’s happy to spend hundreds of billions of dollars building them and hiding the actual costs associated with creating and maintaining them and hiding the actual real-world electrical capacity they represent. And he underwrites temporary discounts to power companies and private citizens who fall for his grift.
But on a much smaller basis Joe Biden loves him some nuclear fusion. And the basis is smaller because all the fusion he can buy is laboratory fusion. Laboratory fusion is a research and development creature. Large universities with generous DOE and DOD funding get millions (not billions) of dollars to build very powerful lasers to shoot at really tiny pellets of various isotopes of hydrogen and lithium and helium, trying to get them to fuse together to form heavier elements and thereby releasing relatively large bursts of fusion energy.
In 2022 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) was able to get more energy out of a fusion event than the amount of laser energy put in. I believe the ratio was 1.5/1. So, it got out 50% more energy than it put in.
And of course, the crowd went wild! Yay!!!!!! Unlimited energy! Almost for nothing!
Yeah sure. What is neglected isn’t mentioned until the end of the article:
“Plenty of other obstacles remain than those noted above, too. Current calculations compare energy generated against the NIF laser’s output, but that brushes over the fact that the lasers draw more than 100 times the power from the grid than any fusion reaction yields. That means either energy gains or laser efficiency would need to improve by two orders of magnitude to break even in any practical sense. The NIF’s fuel pellets are also extremely expensive, says Kritcher, each one pricing in at an estimated $100,000. Then, producing a reasonable amount of power would mean dramatically increasing the frequency of NIF’s shots—a feat barely on the horizon for a reactor that requires months to load up the next nanosecond-long burst.”
So, let’s review. They put in a hundred times more energy than they produce. Each tiny pellet costs $100,000. They only fuse a few atoms every few months. The infrastructure is state of the art “giant lasers” that probably cost a cajillion dollars to build and ten cajillion dollars to maintain.
Based on these “obstacles” my engineering intuition says the likely date of commercial implementation is about five years after the heat death of the universe. Give or take.
Joking aside. Give me a break. This is right up there with world peace and practical communism for impossible dreams. But the author ends off this depressing list of obstacles by saying:
“Those are the biggest challenges,” Mordijck says. “But I think if we overcome those, it’s really not that hard at that point.”
Here he sounds like every crackpot who wants money to invent time travel or faster than light space craft or perpetual motion.
In the far future I think we’ll extract energy from geothermal sources. In the immediate future we’ll use fossil fuels and nuclear fission reactors. Nuclear fusion will require breakthroughs in physical science and engineering that currently aren’t even imagined.
When I was a kid, the Scientific American articles said we were fifty years away from commercial nuclear fusion. That was fifty-five years ago. I’m still waiting for my cup of fusion.
Selling the Magic Pill
Not satisfied with inventing a diabetes drug that makes healthy women lose a little weight, the pharma companies are now looking for a drug that mimics the benefits of exercise.
Various approaches are being pursued. One hormone that has shown promise is irisin.
“In 2012, scientists discovered a hormone called irisin that is released by muscles during exercise – a messenger chemical that communicates with various parts of the body. In November 2023, Wrann and her colleagues demonstrated that irisin can reach the brain and clear the toxic amyloid plaques involved in Alzheimer’s disease, a big breakthrough in understanding how exercise helps shield the brain from dementia.”
It is also believed to modulate bone growth and density and prevent loss of muscle mass.
But of course, why take a careful, reasonable subject for pharmaceutical investigation when instead you can just go Vlad the Impaler on it.
“Because scientists are still unsure which exercise hormones are the most beneficial, the ExPlas trial is taking a broad approach. Injecting blood plasma from people who exercise regularly is a simple way of transferring all these potentially beneficial hormones to patients. “The Norwegian idea is to take the plasma as the drug and give it to those who need it,” says Wrann.”
Well, sure. Let’s drain the blood out of the young and use it to keep the centenarians alive forever. I can just see it. Nancy Pelosi spends some fraction of her hundreds of millions of dollars of ill-gotten insider trading gains to have the blood of virgins pumped into her. While she’s at it why not give her a skin transplant from some poor young woman who “accidentally” dies while participating in a beauty contest on Jeffrey Epstein’s Fantasy Island now under new CIA-mediated management.
I think we’ve reached terminal stupid. And I say this as one of the dumbest people I know. All these physiological and metabolic studies keep demonstrating that doing natural things like getting enough sleep and exercising moderately or even just taking a walk produce all these incredible benefits that surpass by orders of magnitude the benefits of all these pharmaceuticals and without the side effects. They pump people, even children, with psycho-active drugs to combat the depression that is caused by the horrible lifestyles we’ve created but don’t care that the drugs make people zombies.
We sit around watching tiny screens and don’t talk to each other or walk with each other and certainly don’t go out and play sports or even get together for a meal. At least going to the gym or your basement and doing some calisthenics and going for a walk in a park three times a week won’t have the side effect of increasing your desire to commit suicide.
The FDA is a rogue government agency. Instead of policing the pharma companies it is their co-conspirator. A new agency needs to be created with the mandate to review the drug safety and efficacy records for the last fifty years and eliminate all of the really harmful medicines that exist. And while they’re at it they could contract out studies with teaching hospitals to test out non-pharmaceutical regimens for various medical conditions. And they could concentrate on the effects of diet and exercise on human beings. The AMA should also be forced to police its membership who should spend some reasonable amount of their busy day convincing their patients to get off their fat butts and stagger around the office park at lunch hour instead of going down to Taco Bell for another three thousand calorie lunch.
Now I’m twice as guilty as the next guy. But I at least admit it’s my own damn fault. And I have it from the highest sources in the pharma industry that many of the miracle drugs that are supposed to counteract the ravages of our diet and exercise malpractice do more harm than good.
If the smart boys in the labs ever did figure out a pill that kept us young and fit forever without horrific side effects, I’d be the first one in line to get my dose. But they won’t. That’s not how the universe works. Things like the endocrine and immune systems in our bodies are so much more complex than what we’ve so far deciphered and each component mediates so many separate responses that the tinkering that biologists and pharmacologists do is closer to voodoo than science. Maybe after artificial intelligence has had a century to stew in human biology, we might see some progress. But all of us will be long gone. So, get out the weights and put down the chimichanga and forget about the magic bullet.
The baby boomers want to be young and cool forever. Their time is running out. What they should be doing is figuring out how to exit with at least a little bit of class.
What Are the Odds?
According to quantum mechanics (or is Stan Lee?) every time a subatomic particle has a choice of moving in one direction or another it spawns two separate realities. And taking all such choices together, it produces an infinity of separate realities (or universes) associated with these different futures that exist side by side. Now the Marvel Cinematic Universe has documented this highly scientific quantum behavior with a panoply of Spidermen in the multiverse. And for all I know they have added a few Spider-transmen to round things out. And because of the Kathleen Kennedy imperative (“PUT A CHICK IN IT AND MAKE HER LAME AND GAY”} there will need to be some Spiderwomen, spiderlesbians and hopefully BIPoC spidertrans-women but most especially Latinx spidertrans-lesbians. Maybe not in that order. After all one cannot constrain the artistic endeavor.
But thinking about all this quantum physics was incredibly stimulating. I started to imagine the multiverse of 2024 election outcomes and the futures it will spawn. For instance, in one universe Joe Biden is struck by lightning and it resets his brain so that he can speak English and walk down stairs without tumbling. But it also forces him to only speak the truth and so he’s assassinated by the FBI for disseminating the document that lists the FBI agents and assets and the scripts and roles they played in the January 6th frame-up.
In another universe Donald Trump declares himself a dictator for one day and has all the data files that the intelligence agencies have collected on Americans erased, reveals who killed Kennedy and forces MSNBC to broadcast Obama’s gay sex tapes during Black History Month.
In yet another universe the most unlikely set of outcomes all occur simultaneously and the American voters come to their senses in numbers so overwhelming that they elect huge majorities of Republicans to the House and Senate. And Trump wins 45 states and re-enters the White House with an ironclad mandate. And with that combination they undo the last fifty years of unconstitutional skullduggery and make the United States a free country for the first time in generations. They fire seventy percent of the federal employees. They cancel the Patriot Act. They eject tens of millions of illegal aliens. They balance the budget. And they impeach all the judges that were appointed by Clinton, Obama and Biden and replace them with the guys who were imprisoned during the January 6th witch hunt. And then they appoint Rudy Giuliani special prosecutor to clean up all the dirt that’s gone on since Obama came into office and have the trials located in Oklahoma. Crazy, right?
Of course, I expect the most likely outcome in this multiverse is the one we expect. That’s the one where crooked judges and prosecutors hand-pick leftist jurors and convict Donald Trump of bogus crimes in their kangaroo courts and then use millions of fraudulent ballots to win the 2024 presidential election and use that outcome to finish off what’s left of this once great nation. Of course.
But even in this most likely of all universes, there is still room for all of this to be the trigger for a cosmic backlash. You could imagine that all of this negative karma building on itself could warp the very fabric of space-time and spawn a reaction. I could imagine that the day after the “winners” of the fake elections are declared, the disgusted Republican voters stage a complete work stoppage across the whole country. Truckers stop delivering food to the cities and oil and gas isn’t delivered. And all the cops go out on strike. In fact, we all go out on strike. And after a couple of weeks when the LGBTQ national guard units admit they can’t drive trucks, Washington might fold and sues for mercy.
And that’s my favorite super hero ending. Sorry Deadpool.
Isn’t physics wonderful?
“We’re Environmental Protestors, Please!”
Here’s my public service for the day. I’ve been watching this clip for a few days and it never gets old. A heartfelt belly laugh at the stupid and self-important. The Gaia Worshippers.
Stupid hippies are blocking the road to Burning Man to protest, I guess, the other stupid hippies. Then the tribal police bust up the blockade and arrest the stupid hippies. When the cop pulls out his gun and starts manhandling one of the fat stupid hippies, another fat stupid hippie starts screeching that they are non-violent and environmental protestors and, I guess, in her mind therefore, sacrosanct.
But the cop puts his knee in the hippie’s fatty liver and cuffs her. Comedy gold. If only it could be Greta Thunberg!
"30 seconds, send your leader to my vehicle, let's talk, get off the fucken road" – Tribal Ranger announced on the highway leading to #BurningMan festival where climate activists blocked the road. About 37 seconds later a ranger RAMMED through blockade, made arrest at gun point. pic.twitter.com/JUckcr6qoE
— FreedomNews.Tv FNTV (@FreedomNTV) August 28, 2023
Room Temperature Super Conductivity?
Maybe. We’ll have to see. But if it’s true that’s a lot of power not being turned into useless heat. So what do you folks think, reality or hoax?
Just listening to an impressive talk of one of the coauthors of the room-temperature superconductor #LK99 at Korea university, Young-Wan Kwon. Just one of the great experiences of the MML2023 conference in Seoul. #MML23 pic.twitter.com/LAZNMwy4we
— Tom S. Seifert (@TeraTom_S) July 28, 2023
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1684044616528453633.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK-99
Too Much Truth
If The Findings Detract, You Must Retract | Jukka Savolainen https://t.co/25aJdMqkAe
— Quillette (@Quillette) June 18, 2023
“In 2020, five psychologists asked the editors of PNAS to retract their study of racial bias in police shootings. PNAS, which stands for the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, is one of the most prestigious multidisciplinary journals in the world. Retraction is an outcome no scholar wishes to experience because it signifies a serious research error and, as such, entails considerable reputational damage.”
Was it because of they made up data or because their calculations were wrong. Nope.
“Some observers have suggested that the retraction was politically motivated. The study, which showed no evidence of racial bias in police shootings, had been used in political debates in ways that challenged calls for radical police reform; calls that had grown louder in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. Heather Mac Donald, a research fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute, claimed the article was retracted because she had cited it in a congressional hearing and in essays published in the Wall Street Journal and other right-leaning media outlets. Others denied this claim. Most importantly, Dr. Joseph Cesario, the senior author of the retracted article wrote, in response to Ms. Mac Donald, “We retracted the paper because we overstepped with the inferences we made from our data.” In other words, he maintained the reason was not political but motivated by purely scientific considerations.”
The narrative must be maintained at all costs, even if it means loss of credibility of some of the hive workers.
The truth? What is truth? Is your truth my truth?
Hah!
Guest Contributor – ArthurinCali – 15JUN2023 – Energy Haves and Have-NotsXYZ
A side story on California’s stupidity on renewable energy:
Last fall the state energy commissioner, or whatever the “very important state official” who is in position to announce proclamations from on high to us peasants had dire news. The problem? Energy consumption between the hours of 4pm-10pm needed to be drastically reduced due to the whole sun going down effect. No sunlight, no solar charging-easy concept. The call was put out with advice on appropriate temperature settings for A/C, and the avoidance of activities that might strain the electric grid across the state.
Imagine the surprise that night to see So-Fi Stadium in Los Angeles fully lit up in anticipation for the NFL game being played. The irony was not missed on what the state considered their priorities to be during this alleged crisis. And yes, it was put out with an attitude that this could result in blackouts (brownouts?) across the state.
Those unfamiliar with Los Angeles weather should know that it is quite mild for most of the year. If this was such a desperate situation surely a football game should not have been that important to warrant the amount of wasted energy to light up a small village. The game could have been rescheduled to be during the daylight hours. But no. Priorities you see.