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Military Running a Parallel Earth Simulator
Fantastic Lad writes "The US Department of Defense (DOD) may already be creating a copy of you in an alternate reality. Putting supercomputers to an innovative use, the military is simulating our planet in an effort to predict the outcome of different scenarios. They might run tests to see how long 'you' can go without food or water, or how 'you' will respond to televised propaganda. Billions of nodes are created in the system, intended to reflect every man, woman, and child. 'Called the Sentient World Simulation (SWS), it will be a "synthetic mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with respect to current real-world information", according to a concept paper for the project. Simulex is the company developing these systems, and they list pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and defense contractor Lockheed Martin among their private sector clients. The U.S. military is their biggest customer, apparently now running the most complex version of the system. JFCOM-9 is now capable of running real-time simulations for up to 62 nations, including Iraq, Afghanistan, and China. The simulations gobble up breaking news, census data, economic indicators, and climactic events in the real world, along with proprietary information such as military intelligence."
Where "parallel" is spelled "paralell".
The downside is that the full version of this simulator will be powered by the electro-chemical activity of six billion human beings.
Whoa.
k.
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
They should have called it W.O.P.R.
My virtual self would be contemplating my thoughts and actions on it's virtual self causing the entire simulation to hit an infinate spawning of threads... And lets hope I don't think if I am actually a virtual node in a computer.
God spoke to me.
New rule: if you can't spell, you can't smoke pot.
Hand it over, Zonk.
Anyone have a torrent for it? ThePirateBay turned up nothing.
I wonder if I use bold in my signature, people will notice my posts.
I sure hope it comes complete with options to unleash a tidal wave, hurricane, rioters, and UFOs, just to you know, see what happens.
Fine witch side do you want?
I do hope they get the fjords right... lovely crinkly edges...
Can it win at Tic-Tac-Toe?
If this signature is witty enough, maybe somebody will like me.
that I survive most of the scenarios. I would hate to get a visit from the police saying my virtual self has just died some horrific death and that I should get in better shape for "just in case". :)
I miss the Karma Whores.
Or,What would happen if we gave every monkey a loaded gun?
Whatever it is, it looks like Shakespear.
Table-ized A.I.
Maybe they will share with me the simulation sequence of events that finally get me laid. There could be something useful in all this!
... I think this will lead to the opposite.
"Mr. President, we found a scenario in which Iraq will become th 52nd US State, oil will flow freely, WMDs were found in Saddam's closet, and bin-Laden was found in his bedroom."
"Excellent! Invade!"
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.
Over 100 posts and no one yet asking what it would be like to have a Beowulf cluster of parallel earths? In this topic, it's actually almost funny. But there's probably a goatse in here somewhere, I trust the trolls enough for that.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
That they're running "The Sims" ? And this is news?
As are the waves of body odor, patchouli oil and hemp coming from you my anonymous friend.
Funny thing is, *we're* just nodes in a full geosociopolitical simulation of the earth, for the masters of the *real* earth.
I wonder if, inside the Pentagon's simulator, they're building a simulator. If not, it's not a complete simulation, is it? So it isn't accurate, is it?
Oh, I thought not.
Amateurs.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
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"I know not with what computer WW3 will be simulated, but WW4 will be simulated with sticks and stones."
Or an Etch-A-Sketch with one knob missing.
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
Chance of someone imagining a Beowulf cluster of these: 100.0%
The Spoon
Updated 6/28/2011
If my "real" self is simulating me, he has even less of a life than I do.
:-)
I'm posting on Slashdot on Friday night, so the above isn't possible.
Therefore, I'm the real me.
QED, proof by geekiness
I hope the simulated me has an iPhone.
No, Gene Roddenberry was right when he made "Mirror, Mirror". We get to see George Bush and Condi Rice with moustaches and goatees.
John
I hate this fucking simulation.
to recap: iraq was hitler. iran is hitler. anyone who speaks provocatively against the US and its allies is hitler.
so, we better kill them before they do something totally evil, like hitler did. most importantly, do it in the name of democracy, social equality, and freedom!
hitler.
i like beating up 7-year-old hitlers. SHOCK AND AWE, BABY!
hitler hitler.
The Great Journey is near!