NASA: Not About Space Anymore
Posted on 03/19/2014 12:15:04 PM PDT by Dallas59
After running the numbers on a set of four equations representing human society, a team of NASA-funded mathematicians has come to the grim conclusion that the utter collapse of human civilization will be “difficult to avoid.”
The exact scenario may vary, but in the coming decades humanity is essentially doomed to some variant of “Elites” consuming too much, “resulting in a famine among Commoners that eventually causes the collapse of society.”
That is, unless civilization is ready for one of two “major policy changes”: inequality must be “greatly reduced” or population growth must be “strictly controlled.”
The apocalyptic pronouncements, set to be published in an upcoming edition of Ecological Economics, come courtesy of a U.S. team led by applied mathematician Safa Motesharrei and funded in part by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
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“Kind of ironic that instead of complaining about resources limitations, this organization is almost unique in that it has the capability of mining the solar system for resources.”
No it doesn’t. Maybe potential, but no capability.
So the solutions are:
A) Take all the wealth from those who have it and give it equally to those who do not, or
B) Kill off a vast number of the population (Gee...I wounder who they’ll take out first?) until you get to a ‘sustainable’ level.
Excuse me...we have an option ‘C’. If you’re a liberal, a leftist, a commie, or a solcialist, you won’t like it.
If the world’s population is indeed too large, I think the traditional means of population control, the coming wars followed by the inevitable famine and pestilence, will reduce the worlds population sufficiently.
What the hell is going on at NASA?...Not enough work to do in space?
One thing I learned getting my PhD. If computer results cannot be tested against the real world, then they are useless.
And most people these days live on very small plots of land. Certainly not big enough to grow enough food to sustain ourselves. So once the local supermarket runs out of food, we'll all be eying the prairie dogs and pigeons.
They say that like its a bad thing.
There are over 1,300 US Government Agencies. We should shut them all down and let each state decide on whether or to continue funding them in their state.
100 years ago 99% of them did not exist. And, we got along fine without them.
Apparently they’ve come to realize that the future is not “Global Warming” but “Little Ice Age”.
Somehow I think the “utter collapse” of NASA has already happened.
Ok, I’ll give you that. But shouldn’t their rational response be to work out a plan to have that capabilty?
GIGO - garbage in, garbage out.
What else would expect from these clowns?
Here is some more info on this over educated f—l.:
Safa Motesharrei
Graduate Research Assistant
ssm@umd.edu
410-919-4810
Safa Motesharrei is a Research Assistant at SESYNC and a PhD candidate in Applied Mathematics/Public Policy at the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park. He has Bachelor degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics, and Master degrees in Physics and Mathematics from UMD. The focus of his work is on integration of the Human System and Population into the Earth System Models. He works with a cross-disciplinary team of renowned scientists including Eugenia Kalnay (Atmospheric Science), James Yorke (Mathematics), Matthias Ruth (Public Policy), Victor Yakovenko (Econophysics), Klaus Hubacek (Geography), Ning Zeng (Meteorology), and Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm (Hydrology).
Together with Jorge Rivas (Political Science, University of Minnesota) and Prof. Kalnay, Safa has developed a minimal dynamical model of Human and Nature, HANDY, which is the first model that shows not only Ecological Strain, but also Economic Stratification can lead to a societal collapse. Safa plays a leading role in the development of the five-sector Human-Earth System model, which includes Population, Climate, Water, Agriculture, and Energy. This project has received support from NASA.
Safa’s studies were supported by doctoral fellowships from the School of Public Policy and the Department of Mathematics at UMD. In summer 2013, he was named the first recipient of the Lev Gandin Fellowship, awarded by Dr. Genia Brin.
Model socialism, get socialism. What a surprise.
how can there possibly be overpopulation when we’re sending everyone to colonies on Mars - well, someday
Netflix is never going to be a place that has every movie all the time. The studios license some content to them for some certain time. Content comes and goes. 2001 is probably a catalog title that brings in a nice regular income stream through DVD sales and, unusually for an older movie, theatrical rentals so they don't need Netflix to make money on it.
This is a prediction straight out of the mouth of Thomas R. Malthus.
Malthus basically said “That the increase of population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence, and that population does invariably increase when the means of subsistence increase, and, that the superior power of population is repressed, and the actual population kept equal to the means of subsistence, by misery and vice.”
That was more than 200 years ago.
He didn’t account for modern advances in agriculture and technology, plus the desire of the middle class and affluent not to have so many children.
Many, many previously rapidly expanding countries population-wise are now at less than replacement birth rates. And technology marches on. We are very close to massive breakthroughs in DNA technologies applied agriculture, fuel production and quality of life. We continue to see NEW economies created with technologies. Email, smart phones, smart TVs, ebooks, just the last 20 years have seen massive changes.
So do not believe the Malthusians at NASA. This study was paid for, organized by and end results created by government solutionists wanting more power for themselves, bottom line.
Wow! They've come up with a "set of four equations" representing all of human society! Pseudo-science sounding major BS at it's most extreme here.
Let me guess, the equations chart out our demise on a graph shaped like a hockey stick, with the same result all the time no matter what the input variables are?
Where have we seen such quackery before?
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