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Didn't read the whole thread just yet. but, to the point. So, it's aliens. what would they possible be communicating? What kind of information would actually matter to communicate over 500 million light years? I bet it would be: a way to reply I wouldn't bother to try to send intructions for them - us - to build another 500 million light-year capable transmitter, But maybe, just maybe, they could be sending informati…
Earth has had life for more maybe as long as 4 billion years, and in all that time there has been less than 200 years when a species had the intelligence, the motivation, and the technological advancement to send communications into space. I know the odds of this being life are (literally) astronomically low, but every time I hear news like this, I can't help hoping there's another species out there that found the wi…
Same feelings. It's never aliens, but it sure would be cool to meet a benevolent super advanced species or catch an intergalactic soap opera with octopus people. Really, any indication that we're not alone.
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Eventually physicists are going to end up trying to explain signs of intelligent life as new Physics and calibrate their models according to it. "Greetings from ___." "Oh, hello... uhh, so those signals were your house and not a trefoil of two black holes and a quasar?
This is what I was just thinking. I personally hope if it does happen the reveal has excellent comedic timing.
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Not if they wanted to specifically send out a beacon to other aliens.
Why would an advanced intelligence advertise its location? It is a high-risk low-reward strategy.
It should be a stronghold, just for comms, fully expendable, probably with no information in any local hard/soft/wetware about where they actually reside.
If we answer, we would be probably be talking to "a phone tapped to another phone"
It seems to me there’s no limit to what we can learn by observing outer space.
Or some kind of giant vessel arriving to a close star.
Could be no luck at all too.
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Can you say more about these nanotech slugs please?
I believe they are referencing James S. A. Corey The Expanse [0] series [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(novel_series)
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We should broadcast the coordinates of a distant star to see what happens.
There are a lot of cool concepts in those books, but the sophon faster-than-light communication that props up a lot of the story was a bit too much for me.
Which books, if I may ask?
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There are a lot of cool concepts in those books, but the sophon faster-than-light communication that props up a lot of the story was a bit too much for me.
> There are a lot of cool concepts in those books Which books, if I may ask?
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Try antennapod, it's libre software
I don't see how to subscribe to a Youtube video with antennapod. Have you done it?
Try finding the RSS feed of the channel and adding it to Antennapod, but I am not sure it will work