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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted  🍂 The Pectrichory  🍄

      1/ there may already be a name for the phenomena, but if not, I nominate "iron catastrophe" - when a star has used up most of the hydrogen, helium, etc. it more and more fuses heavier elements ... and each element gets used up faster than the one before. >>>https://twitter.com/The_Petrichory/status/1327301711828975616 …

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       🍂 The Pectrichory  🍄 @The_Petrichory
      Replying to @MorlockP @Advanced_COBOL @ctdonath
      Elites exchanging credibility for raw power at a rapid rate seems to appear near the fall of every empire. Is there some sociopolitical term for this phenomenon?
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

      2/ The process goes exponential in time. Hydrogen lasts for billions of years, helium lasts for millions, etc. By the time the silicon is being fused, that entire fuel cycle lasts for < 1 day. The heat liberated by fusion lifts the outer layers of the star millions of miles

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

      3/ But then, in one last spasm, all of the silicon is fused to iron, and there's nothing left. ...and that stellar atmosphere, which may have been lifted as far as 1 AU (earth's orbit!) ... is suddenly held up by nothing. ...and it starts falling.

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

      4/ Picture the energy liberated by a human jumping off of the World Trade Center. Picture the energy liberated from a tank falling from an airplane without a parachute. Picture the "colony drop" trope of a massive space station falling from LEO.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

      5/ ...now picture something like 1/3 of the mass of an entire star, on the order of magnitude of a million earth masses, falling ... from a height of 200 million miles ... accelerating all the way. It doesn't end well. That's the iron catastrophe.

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          6/ ...and that's the analogy that springs to mind when I see the US elite using up all "freedom" as a rhetorical fuel in 150 years, then using up "competent technocrats" as a rhetorical fuel in 50 years, then using up "fighting racism" in 5 years, then ...

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          7/ and note that, in keeping with the analogy, as the Cathedral burns up each new form of rhetorical fuel, it gets hotter, it gets bigger, and it lifts its parts further and further out of the gravity well ... storing up potential energy. ...all of which can be liberated >>>

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          8/ when the entire thing suddenly has no more fuel to burn, there's no more pressure to keep up the parts, and the whole thing collapses under gravity.

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          9/ Remember: the first stage of fusion lasts 1 billion years. The last stage (silicon -> Fe) lasts less than a day.

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Maria - Schizophrenia arc,

          10/https://twitter.com/Wfflthebffl/status/1327310856900767750 …

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          Maria - Schizophrenia arc, @Wfflthebffl
          Replying to @MorlockP
          Been thinking this lately, we're running out of economic and civilizational moves to play. We are approaching maximum entropy for our current system.
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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted  🍂 The Pectrichory  🍄

          11/https://twitter.com/The_Petrichory/status/1327310059047514117 …

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs added,

           🍂 The Pectrichory  🍄 @The_Petrichory
          Replying to @Advanced_COBOL @MorlockP @ctdonath
          I observe the Cathedral selling out the credibility of the once-prestigious academy for tighter integration with the federal bureaucracy. I observe the law selling out its credibility to anarcho-tyranny, harassing you for petty contrivances while your business burns.
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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Lee

          12/https://twitter.com/leepavelich/status/1327311702585589760 …

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          Lee @leepavelich
          Replying to @MorlockP
          Accompanying diagram for the physics pic.twitter.com/Ijg3Pf9l6f
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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Karl K. Gallagher

          13/https://twitter.com/KarlKGallagher/status/1327315338107695109 …

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          Karl K. Gallagher @KarlKGallagher
          Replying to @MorlockP
          This seems to couple nicely with Turchin's "elite overproduction" pushing toward a collapse. Which scares the hell out of me.
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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          14/ A friend DM'ed me: "I like your analogy, but it fails for one reason - when the star collapses, that's how the Earth was formed" Actually, no, that's not a failure of the analogy - that was part of it (the part I forgot to type up). So, back to the astrophysics >>>

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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          15/ You've got this 25 solar mass red giant, and it's burned through hydrogen, helium, lithium, ...turning each into the next higher element, or even heavier yet ... and the star's getting bigger and bigger

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        12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          16/ (compare the USG reach in 1800 vs DoD / State department global reach in 2020, where it's a matter of vital national importance that US dollars be spent so that Pakistani children can be be taught that gender norms are social constructed)

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        13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          17/ ...but eventually the star runs out of fuseable elements / USG runs out of rhetorical fuel (the exhaustion of the elites in Moldbug framing), and one day ... there's nothing left to prop the edifice up. and it all comes crashing down The star comes crashing down

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        14. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          18/ When the stellar mass free-falls all the way to the bottom, accelerating all the way, it hits bottom / smashes into itself, and like a cavitation bubble collapsing, the deceleration is HARD. Suddenly there's a ton more energy, and temperatures spike to to insane levels.

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        15. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          19/ All of this oxygen and carbon and lithium and iron is squeezed together so hot and so dense that a whole new wave of nuclear reactions take place. Strange and weird reactions that "can't" take place because they require so much energy to happen... do. This is nucleogenesis

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        16. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          20/ This is the process by which basically every atom in the universe that's heavier than iron was created. Every lead wheel weight, every tank of argon welding gas, every neon sign -all of those atoms were born in the death of a start - the insane pressure cooker last seconds.

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        17. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          21/ This is the final part of my analogy. When, in 5 or 30 years, the Cathedral has burned through the absolute last of its legitimacy - when it screams "freedom" and people laugh, when it yells "but the roads" and they laugh, when it screams "racism" and they laugh - it falls

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        18. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          22/ The fall takes 200 or 300 years to start, and then lasts 15 minutes. When all of the rubble, falling from insane heights, hits each other, pressures rise, and strange new elements are created. This is how the atoms that make up the Earth were formed. And this ...

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        19. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          23/ is how I think that the basic elements of the next generation of societies will be created as well. There's an interesting theory I read recently ( maybe in The Narrow Corridor ? https://www.amazon.com/Narrow-Corridor-States-Societies-Liberty-ebook/dp/B07MCRLV2K … maybe somewhere else?) that modern Europe was created by ...

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        20. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          24/ (or, rather the atoms that later created modern Europe) were created by the collapse of the Roman empire and the fact that it was overrun by the Germanic tribes, thus fusing the democratic principles of the tribes with the bureaucratic norms of Rome. (Tangential: I learned

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        21. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          25/ yesterday, during a wiki wander, that the last meeting of the Roman senate met in 603 AD, even tho the last emperor had been deposed over a century earlier

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        22. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          26/ but back to the analogy: I think that the crash of the Cathedral is going to fuse into existence crazy new elements. Exciting times. If I'm right (and I make no claims) then the steady acceleration of the rhetorical fuel depletion means we'll all see this in our lifetimes

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        23. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          27/ http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~ryden/ast162_4/notes15.html … For instance, consider the stages in the life of a 25 Msun star: Hydrogen fusion lasts 7 million years Helium fusion lasts 500,000 years Carbon fusion lasts 600 years Neon fusion lasts 1 year Oxygen fusion lasts 6 months Silicon fusion lasts 1 day

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        24. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted dji  ☠️ nnius Ξ(0, (0 . 0))

          28/https://twitter.com/djinnius/status/1327354284762034176 …

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs added,

          dji  ☠️ nnius Ξ(0, (0 . 0)) @djinnius
          Replying to @MorlockP
          using up "free and fair elections ensure peaceful transfer of power" literally overnight
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