http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/2004-06-30/encounte.jpg
You may be interested in Robert J. Bradbury's work on Matrioshka
Brains:
http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/MatrioshkaBrains/index.html
Larry
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From: Michael Turner
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Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 8:11
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Subject: Re: Ros
...we will find this:
http://oz.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1998-12-31/2010.jpg
or this:
http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/Hx/Pictures/pillar.html
Team Encounter is planning on sending a vessel to the stars with the data
on many human beings, including their DNA embedded in the ship.
I just checked their Web site and there is a note saying it is down.
I hope this is a temporary situation and that they can succeed in the
mission.
h
I think you will find this article interesting. Scroll down to near
the end before the bibliography:
http://www.coseti.org/lemarch1.htm
Larry
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Sent: Frida
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Subject: Genesis Reentry
NASA Science News for September 3, 2004On September 8th,
a daylight fireball will streak across the westernUnited States. It's
Genesis, returning s
In Roger Penrose's book, The Emperor's New Mind", he presents the
argument that true AI, rooted in digital computer systems, is not
possible. I've borrowed an explanation of it from Kelley Ross: The
Emperor's "new clothes," of course, were no clothes. The Emperor's "New
Mind," we then suspect, i
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:57:19PM -0400, LARRY KLAES wrote:
> So what do you suggest is an alien artifact sitting right in front of us?
A fly on the wall, an invisible bubble, a rock in the Kuiper belt.
But, the most likely explanation: we're not in any alien's lightcone.
What's the chance of
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040830/full/040830-10.html
Alien microbes could survive crash-landing
Philip Ball
Tough bugs make interplanetary
wanderings more plausible.
Bacteria
could survive crash-landing on other planets, a British team has found. The
result supports
So what do you suggest is an alien artifact sitting right in front of
us?
Larry
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From: Joseph Z.
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Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 10:34
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Subject: RE: Rose's Web site
Many times the best place to hide things from people
Many times the best place to hide things from people are right in front of
their faces! If an alien race is much more technologically advanced than
they would be seen only when they want to. An example would be our military
chrypto gear. You can have your radio tuned to the right frequency, but
> Michael:
>
> What do you think of Paul Davies' hypothesis in "Do we have to spell it
out"
> (New Scientist vol 183 issue 2459 - 07 August 2004, page 30 -- see excerpt
> below) that ET might have inserted a message into highly conserved
sequences
> of junk DNA? Note that further support for pansp
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/08/MNG0984OM41.DTL
Interstellar travel is just an antimatter of time
Energy from particle annihilation could cut
voyages by light years
Keay Davidson, Chronicle Science
Writer
"Antimatter men" haunted comic books and TV scienc
I should make some of the underpinnings of my reasoning
a little clearer.
If you look at the Drake Equation, it really pops out at you:
the lifespan of civilizations hugely dominates the probability
of contact. The first one we hear from is likely to have been
around for a very long time.
If yo
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 07:54:01PM +0900, Michael Turner wrote:
> Larry writes: "Over his example of a milion years' travel time to cover a
> 1000 l.y. distance, the proper motions of both originating and target stars
Let's see, in the lab we can push a piece of a gray sail (carbon truss cloth)
w
> > "Any sufficiently advanced technology is
> > indistinguishable from white
> > noise."
>
>
> That argument presumes that the civilization in
> question doesnt want to be detected.
Only when taken out of context. My immediate
context was of a hypothetical post-Singularity AI that COULD
und
Larry writes: "Over his example of a milion years'
travel time to cover a 1000 l.y. distance, the proper motions of both
originating and target stars will have a large influence. This creates problems
of propulsion and guidance (including mid-course corrections), and the service
life of the
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