Researchers in Europe are working on a computer program, known as Living Earth Simulator which is meant for predicting everything in the future. As the name implies, the Living Earth Simulator creates a simulation of our planet to allow the researchers to see the future of the entire planet.
This computer program is just at the very beginning stage, but the researchers want to make it capable of modeling everything going on everywhere. The program is able to collect data from various sources including news feeds, the stock market, medical records, Wikipedia, Twitter, and even the fancy NASA sensor networks that do not even exist yet.
According to the researchers, using the Living Earth Simulator also allows them to learn and work out solutions or any long term effects that will save the earth or our future.
For example, people have suggested a bunch of rather extreme ways of combating climate change, including giant solar mirrors and dumping massive amounts of iron into the ocean. Since nobody's quite sure what would happen if we were to implement one of these ideas, an Earth simulator could provide a way of figuring out the safest, cheapest, and most effective method of combating these global issues.
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