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."

Comments

Re:The political options

[Anonymous Coward]

PARALLEL EARTH SIMULATOR.

ENTER DESIRED SIMULATION: no George Bush

RUNNING...

SOLUTION: Al Gore is last US president, signs terms of capitulation that forms world-wide Islamic state under Sharia law.

Mod experiment

[Tablizer]

Hey, how about somebody mod me up to 5 to see if my simulated self gets the same score. I would like to thank you for your contribution to science.

Re:What if Neville Chamberlain had a backbone?

[Anonymous Coward]

If a war is waged in my name, do it right.

Excellent! Have you signed up for the full tour of duty yet? The US army needs people like you.

If not: your post certainly doesn't deserve a +5, go crawl back to your parent's basement, you armchair chickenhawk.

Re:Twelfth Imam

[HomelessInLaJolla]

We're not talking about business decisions. We're talking about the decision to use U.S. military force in external conflicts...If you'd like to have a rational discussion If you can't see the connection between US business decisions, the stock market, the Federal Government, and the usage of the military--especially in an era when the stock market bubble, 9/11, military subcontracting in South America, and the Halliburton-White House connection are so obvious--then you're beyond any possibility of rational discussion.

But if this is going to be "my dark conspiracy theories Venture capitalists don't have conspiracy theories. They have control over world economics and, through that, world politics and world military deployments.

What's it like living in a fantasy world simplified so that a preschooler can understand it?