User blog:JERealize/Progress Bar: Issue 045

(April 27, 2014)

And now, for the continuation of the last blog. This is Progress Bar.

ASPC Elections
A few days back, I decided to enter an election as a candidate for vice-president of my college's student council. It turns out that there is only one other contestant running against me. I have no idea whether or not I will win (it's getting to be an uneventful election), but whatever the result, I don't really care... unless I get elected. (Lesson One: When going for broke, never care about the result.)

What Might Happen In the Future
I recently thought of new technologies and ideas that may not exist for hundreds, maybe thousands of years.

First of all: According to a hypothesis someone posted, the barrier of computing machine efficiency will be reached by the end of the 40th Century. Assuming that computing efficiency is linked to variables such as simulated worlds, this means that entire multiverses can be created within one cubic inch of data once the ceiling is reached. However, when you add advancements in telescopic detection, there's something else that could be of use...

Newer, larger, and more powerful telescopes are being planned by the year, with capabilities ranging from studying cloud formations on neighboring gas planets, to searching for inhabitable exoplanets beyond our reach. However, if we were to combine wormhole transportation (possible thousands of years into the future) with telescopes with such an unimaginable reach, considering that the speed of light is finite, we could study the Earth at past stages and possibly recreate it. (You know, so the people of the future can play around with the past in their virtual-reality simulations.)

Second: A recent idea I had is an artificial ring around the planet of Earth. Assuming that the people of the future do decide to build a Dyson Shell around the Sun to capture all its output and convert it into energy, granting our civilization Kardashev Type 2 status in the process, the Earth would be left in relative darkness without the light of daytime. This artificial ring I propose would be built around the Earth and release enough heat and light to mimic daytime and sustain Earth's natural environment. As a bonus, it can be designed to simulate daytime and nighttime, at the same time across the planet, eliminating the concept of time zones entirely. There are some major hurdles to jump, besides the construction of such an object, for such an object to be of benefit, such as a acclimatization the entire planet would need to take to get used to true universal time, and the simulation of seasons.

The last idea I have is much more hypothetical than the last two, and may not even exist: Post-mortem neural energy.

The idea is, that the brain energies of those deceased still remain, yet with no medium with which to interact, they are mostly out of human thought. This can not only explain so-called "supernatural forces", but at the same time, this can give us a chance to bring those who were unlucky to get a future shot at practical immortality back to life to try again, as well as provide billions of primary historical sources and thousands of years of archives. A computer simulation of the human brain is not too far off, and computer compatibility for storage of neural data can be achived within the next 100 years, but the hardest thing to do would be to prove that such a phenomena as post-mortem neural energy exists. On the off-chance it does, though, it can serve as a benefit for countless generations.

Conspiracy Time!
Okay. Tell me these two don't look similar. This picture shows Starla Serrano, a student I know from college. This picture shows Rebecca Baird, my college history teacher. (Why the latter was on Jeopardy, I'll explain in the next segment.) I don't know, but both of these people seem to look relatively similar, minus age differences. It could be that Starla may soon be sent to the past, where she eventually becomes a history teacher. Or Rebecca could be abducted, forced to take a death pill, have that backfire so she becomes her younger self, then gets flung into the past to become a student. Either way, I'll look out for any missing person cases concerning either of them, just in case.

Another Contestant I Know
Back in April 11, this episode of Jeopardy aired. Ten years earlier, my history teacher, Rebecca Baird, forewarned us that she competed on Jeopardy, and I got to watching it once it came on. She lost. By $100.

Well, either way, this means she's only the second person I know who was on a game show. Yet another reason for me to get on a game show.

In Desperate Need of Language Learning
Yeah, I said it. I really am overdue to learn a new language. I know fluent English (despite it being my second language, surprisingly enough), and though Spanish (my first language) is not my strongest language, I can still talk with the locals. However, with the rise of anime in the Western world, as well as overhearing many people talking in different dialects, the fact that I know so little makes me feel insecure. I hope to, as a result, learn Japanese, since I hear a lot of that lately, and for about ten years now. How to do so, is another matter...

Planned Videos
Not much in this regard, but I hope to, once I get some decent video-editing software, make a few review videos like the Nostalgia Critic and the like. However, I have plans to make my first alternate history video: "What if Adolf Hitler died in World War One?" I have some information for that video up until 1932, but because of the detail, I hope to release it in sections. Until then... well, I don't know...

Anything else?
I've decided to make this two-part blog a three-part blog. Next time, expect stuff like these: I'll see you, hopefully on Tuesday. Germany. Portugal. Ghana. Let's face it. The U.S. is doomed. (Talk | Blogs | Contributions) 05:50, April 28, 2014 (UTC)
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