Statistics of Deadly Quarrels

CarlNorthcore writes "Brian Hayes published this paper in the Computing Science chapter of Jan-Feb's American Scientist. It provides a fascinating and [sadly] relevant statistical exploration of our world's deadly conflicts. Look out for the excellent "Web of Wars" diagram."

Comments

Humanity is suicidal.

[HanzoSan]

Thats right, its a goal of many people to kill themselves, they dont know they are doing this, they think they are killing the enemy.

What humans just cant figure out is, we are all one, instead of us acting as a team we fight ourselves. This is why I dont think we will last for 50 more years, because the next big war wont involve nukes, its going to be a nano war, mixed with bio terrorism, a war you cant stop no matter what technology you have, and a war where both sides will die.

So whats the choice? The choice is to end all war, and all causes of war, such as hate, find ways to handle political disputes or just form a one world government for all I care, but war is something that should cease to exsist in the next 10-20 years, because if it still exsists at this time, it wont just be nuking one country, it will be spores spreading all over the world killing billions, or nano viruses killing the whole planet.

Technology is at the point now where war is just no longer practical. When will we evolve socially to the level we are at with technology? If theres no balance, we wont properly use our new technology and will destroy ourselves.

The End.