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The Butterfly Effect

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Surely many people have heard of the Butterfly Effect . Behind this name we find the formulation of the theory of chaos. After the discovery that the universe has a story ( Big Bang ) and we certainly two key theories of physics ( quantum and relativity ) the formulation of the unpredictability of events that changed the conception of our world now. We are facing a revolution totally ignored by majority of the population, which is easier to think about God's plans, conspiracies and other fantasies when he sees the events of our day; but the reality is that man proposes and random features . Pierre Simon de Laplace certainly was one of the key figures in the scientific worldview to the early twentieth century. He was defending that the laws of physics were above the divine will, he maintained that the Causal Determinism was the thread which moved events. The principle of Causal Determinism postulates that any outcome is due to a cause and this is the previous state ...

Blade Runner just around the corner

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Tyrell Corporation: more human than human Blade Runner is a 1982 film based on the novel " Do Androids dream of electric sheep? " by Philip K. Dick ; it discusses about artificial human (completely built by man) of biological consciousness caught over the years. This artificial human with better performance than natural ones, had become a hazard by its creators and that they had been banned on Earth and they had an expiration date of four years (when they died). I don’t explain the plot but the film debates about what is or what it means living , it personalized by creatures built as our image and likeness, and at same time what rights has the creator on creatures created by It (doesn’t matter human or God). Blade Runner is a milestone for fans of the genre (science fiction). In the era of digital special effects and virtual reality it seem outdate, but the music of Vangelis , darkness and minimal convincing special effects, gives sufficient consistence it despi...

Really, What can be able to do? and What can’t?

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After Napoleonic wars the new king of France ( Louis XVIII ) was worried about the delay in in industrial technology. War was isolated United Kingdom but their steam machines raised in productivity while the continent machines were stalled. So Louis XVIII was sent to England an engineer named Sadi Carnot for to see and to copy what England industries where doing in their machines. The surprise was that machines are equal as before war. What had happened? In fact it was happening one thing impossible in the thermodynamic theory of epoch. Watt and their heirs had the patent of steam machine until 1800 (in middle of Napoleonic war) and it born a lot of companies dedicated to build machines steam; and this new companies apply an empirical evidence discovered by mechanical that repair this machines: as great is the temperature better is the machine performance . This evidence was in contradiction to the Caloric theory , and when Watt had been building machines never increase more the ...

The carbon bubble

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Atmospheric CO 2 is arriving other time at 400 ppm . Obviously last moths it was under mythic threshold but to follow the sawtooth graphic seems that the problem was overcome, but on the contrary graphic trend is growing in exponential. However as I related in “ Are 400 ppm of CO 2 the border to beginning the Armageddon, or not? ” to pass the threshold doesn’t mean that climate begins a spiral of weather disasters. Deniers, in their crusade against the evidence in climate , have profit of a cool winter for beginning their ridiculous idea of Global Cooling . Global Cooling is possible but to put tones of CO 2 in atmosphere isn’t a solution because Earth will be heating until CO 2 and temperature will take other time the equilibrium; but in other hand high CO 2 could do a rebound effect which will carry climate to the Ice Age (read “ The day after Tomorrow ”) CO 2 is growing and nobody does anything. The more powerful oil industry moves all of its influences for to stop ...

The consumer society

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During the last days the EU for the umpteenth time, recommending a reduction in salaries Greek, Spanish and Portuguese workers. The question is More? Really salaries can down more; we can only consider payment zero the lower bound (to pay for work only happens for hobbies). We also may ask when it will take to have servitude contracts (pay for food and lodging) or directly slavery . Down salaries when inflation continues to rise, it seems total nonsense, nonsense that goes against the consumer society in which we operate. The consumer society is based on the constant consumption of goods. Currently repair or transfer of goods to be completely useless. Everything is throwing, everything has short time in use, consumer goods older in design but not in utility or use, Wasting is the basis of the modern economy , using throwing is the current motto. But this implies that there must be a sufficient mass of potential consumers willing with power to consume; we have consumers, wi...

Climate Change will lead humans toward global war

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Humans had begun their history more before of 100.000 years ago. In this time interval had lived several changes of climate. There was softly as a little ice age between XVI and XVIII centuries but others had been very strong as a finish of Würm glaciation . But any of these changes ware harmless for humans; in every change humans experience changes their current society even greats imperium ware downed as Roman. Sometimes historians talk about problems which carry this societies to the collapse, but several of this causes have origin in climate changes which difficult communications and make problems in economy so it will become fuel that increase the little problems which these societies have before. Human have the habit to do the same mistake every time . Science, the main motor of our develop, is always despise by the beliefs, even when these beliefs were proving that are wrong. One of these wrong beliefs is that humans has above the nature; it doesn’t matter that every day we h...

Will Global Cooling be arriving?

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Today USA is suffering a very extreme cool wave. This cool wave is due to Polar Vortex . In fact it isn’t an exceptional meteorological situation, but luckily it isn’t usual. Perhaps the exceptional situation is the frequency what are doing extreme weather situations of all kind and in everywhere of planet. Climate is destabilizing month in month and weather news take protagonist in TV and press. But in front of this data there are deniers that are claiming that the weather continues as usual and these episodes are only little perturbation into normal. Also there are other kind of skeptics, as I write in There are argues no valid and there are argues wrong , the Imminent Global Cooling Advisors . These people have other discuss, they think that climate is entering an Ice Age. I could be agree with them ( The day after Tomorrow ) but they argues aren’t right. In fact their intention is to stop all possible Climate Change action, in special to reduce emission of CO 2 , it’s argu...