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I'm not sure exactly, but it'd be a good long way. Signals can be detected from a great distance, but it will mostly be meaningless noise. It's not that terrestrial signals can't be observed at multi-light-year distances, it's that you can't turn them into something recogniseable. Though now I'm im...

IIRC insofar as radio transmissions, our normal "chatter" outshines the Sun at radio wavelengths. But the information is completely jumbled by the time they reach 2 light years from Earth. As for the deliberate messages we've sent? Not a clue. On that one hand, aliens might be able to give...

I thought it was a really good novel. Not happy, not pleasant, not even always enjoyable... but a good, solid, hard-SF story. And creepy as hell. Creepy as hell indeed, and disturbingly plausible in places. Here's hoping aliens are more like Vulcans and less like the Scramblers. Especially if what'...

SETI Institute Well, it might be aliens. Then again, in the tradition of Pogo it might just be us, led astray by our own technology. A story in Britain’s Guardian newspaper today (December 18) reports that astronomers with the Breakthrough Listen Project – the comprehensive radio SETI search being ...

Apologies in advance if this is in the wrong forum. The Register How do we combat mass global misinformation? How about making the internet a little harder to use We’re blinded by our trust of the Search box and its inscrutability A friend recently texted me in a panic from Florida, where he’d been ...

My apologies, then.

Further update. Purported phosphine on Venus more likely to be ordinary sulfur dioxide, new study shows In September, a team led by astronomers in the United Kingdom announced that they had detected the chemical phosphine in the thick clouds of Venus. The team's reported detection, based on observat...

Broomstick wrote: ↑2021-01-14 04:58pm I'm fascinated by Deep Time.

Likewise!

Interestingly, this little enigma happens to be my state's fossil. How serendipitous.

Sci-News Paleontologists have described the first three-dimensional preservation of soft tissue in Namacalathus hermanastes, a skeletal metazoan (multicellular animal) that lived some 547 million years ago (Ediacaran period) in what is now Namibia, and established a strong evolutionary link between...

aerius wrote: ↑2021-01-05 01:13amWhat just happened?

Basically this:

https://youtu.be/l3NLHF6oV4Q

...but in year form.

(I know, not pertinent to your post. Still...)

Yes. And good riddance to 2020.

Solauren wrote: ↑2020-10-31 03:33pm Because he was worried about the Feds, but it was the local police that nailed him.

Ah, I missed that particular fact.

Also, the fact that that particular guy was a former drug abuser isn't surprising. Though I would have guessed meth rather than heroin.

Broomstick wrote: ↑2020-10-31 08:20am Am I the only one who think it's also ironic he was worried about FBI infiltration?

Apologies for being dense, but how is that ironic?

A follow-up in regards to one of the conspirators. Whitmer kidnap suspect wants out of jail. He's diabetic, and fears COVID-19 After three weeks in jail, one of the suspects charged with plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is asking the judge to reconsider her decision to keep him locked up: He...

I think Von Neuman probes could be considered life. Actually, there's no reason they couldn't be partly organic. I suppose in a way organic life is a collection of Von Neuman devices. They certainly do blur the line. Any sufficiently advanced machine is indistinguishable from biology? :P As for par...

Ideally, you'd send something slower to the system first and build a weaker laser there to act as brakes. Otherwise, you could build your solar sail-powered ship with an Orion deceleration phase. Both would require ceasing acceleration earlier than halfway, coasting sail end to the destination syst...

Formless wrote: ↑2020-10-21 04:05pmThis observation was always meant to be taken as preliminary. That's why the professional scientists were still hedging their bets on a non-biological explanation.

Of course. The hypotheses are currently just that: hypotheses.

I apologize for putting the thread off topic. More recent news, there might not be a phosphine anomaly after all : Context: ALMA observations of Venus at 267 GHz have been presented in the literature that show the apparent presence of phosphine (PH3) in its atmosphere. Phosphine has currently no evi...

For those of us who ascribe to the great filter hypothesis, this becomes concerning (as does the Martian methane detections).

LadyTevar wrote: ↑2020-10-03 11:34am I can't find it now, but there's one about her "successfully arguing her first case before The Lord"

I've heard one quip saying "did someone finally write [Trump's] name in the death note?"

Just because.

I'm thinking about helping out the Biden campaign but when I look up a campaign website I get several different ones.

Which one is the real one? I'm concerned that some of them are fakes.

Anyone's thoughts on this article? America sleep-walking into a stolen election

The thought of a second term for High Lord Douchebag is enough to make me ill with dread.