The state of the planet

Is the planet Earth going towards an end or are we just overreacting about the climate change? This is a tricky question with no direct answer. I believe that something has to be done, but the decisions on how we are going to correct the state of our planet has to be made by the leaders of the world.

The only place that I personally have seen some results (and very drastic results) of the climate change is in one of the glaciers in Norway. Juvas, a glacier in Norway has suffered great damage from the heating of the world. Therefore I don't believe that all the talk of the climate change is just some hoax.

Juvas in Norway

I think it's hard to do big changes as an individual, and therefore you need more environmental laws, and commissions for all the countries, to prevent our planet from huge disasters that may be an outcome if we don't react. That is if no one finds a panacea for these problems.

It is hard to anticipate how huge our problems really are in the present situation, but I sure wish for our future generations to have a nice and healthy growth as we had, and not a spoiled and gloomy one caused by us. The only thing we can do is to either act against or support the government to take the right decisions in the big environmental meetings in the world.

//J

Valkyrie (2008)

This is a movie that is based on a true story. The story takes place in the end of the Second World War, and the actual event that the movie reflects is the July 20 plot. The plot was an attempt to kill Adolf Hitler and take control over Germany.

The German army officer Claus von Stauffenberg (played by Tom Cruise) was the man behind the plans for the July 20 plot. He was near getting killed in North Africa, and when he recovered from that accident he was given a new position as a colonel in Germany. Claus and some other officers, generals and highly positioned political people started to form a plan for how they would get rid of Adolf Hitler and take power over the country.

I have a thing for movies that are based on true stories/events, and maybe that is why I also think that this movie is really good. The movie is really thrilling and the actual plan that they had for taking over the country was really cool I think.

Trailer

Definitely a movie worth seeing!

//J

Will we be known (Earth: year 3000)

How will the world look like after a thousand year from now? Will there be any humans left? These are some questions you might wonder when you are daydreaming from time to time. I will give you my point of view on these questions.

If you take some time to look back in time, you can soon see that the technical development has been escalating to the present time. I think that this exponential curve of technique will keep on growing in the future.

One huge step when we talk about technique will be the development of the quantum computers. I sadly don't have time to explain all parts and all the technique in a quantum computer, but one thing that I know for certain is that this will be a huge point in our history, because the day when we have fully functional quantum computers, that day will forever be known as the day that we dug our own graves.

Why is this so bad? If you ever have heard of the singularity scenario you know what I am talking about. This is a scenario where machines with artificial intelligence become the leading creature on earth, and it is far from an impossible scenario.

On of the reasons why this could happen is that scientists of today are trying to find out if the human brain works like a quantum computer. And if we (humans) can combine the brain with a quantum computer, then the singularity scenario has begun. The machines create a mind of their own sort of speak. And the technique development on this planet would escalade more than even possible before.

Will there be any humans left? Yes of course, but we will not be the leading creatures of the world. The worst case scenario however, would be if the machines starts to be very hostile and you would get a scenario as in the "Terminator" movies. This is my view of how the earth will look like after a thousand years from now.

Picture from www.tdubel.com

//J