Things i'd like answered...

:47 What is the neon sanctuary sign from? (they had "sanctuary" in Logans Run but don't know if there was a neon sign)

:50 Is the SETI helicopter from anything?

1:01 Tatoo on womans arm seems familiar, but can't place it. Also is the scanning the eyes with a handheld device from something in particular?

1:18 The ROBOT sign seems familiar. Probably due to the font and particularly the "R".

2:22 What is the image on the watch from?

2:42 What is the Oragami and toy car from? Also is Quark from something?

2:45 Glowing object?

2:52 Chinese looking logos and walking through doorish type thing?

3:29 Can't place what that is from, but looks super familiar.

When aliens could be anything you have to look for everything. It's not that SETI etc don't understand that life out there may be completely beyond anything we could imagine or detect...it's just that you'd be wasting your time gazing in to space not knowing what you are looking for or trying to detect the undetectable.

I mean rly. "Beyond Imagination" ... "We need more imagination"... dunno.

*promote, SETI needs more attention.

Thanks, can't figure out how that happened though as I copied it from the title on youtube... anyway fixed!
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>> ^spawnflagger:

Meteoroid


I read the title as metroid.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
>> ^rougy:

One of the findings from this study was that a certain amount of intoxication prohibited people from seeing the illusion, which would imply that they see the truth.
He jokes about it, referring to a colleague who was tipsy, but later he notes a study that suggested that cannabis use prohibits the left and right hemispheres of the brain from communicating--not unlike the way that people prone to grand mal seizures are cured, by cutting the membrane between the two. (corpus collosum?)
What I suggest...and clearly there is ample argument against this...what I suggest is that marijuana users are less susceptible to illusion than are non-marijuana users.
And in keeping with that thought, that is why it is so dangerous to the status quo.
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This is PedoGuarnaxx Approved, from the Seti Alpha system.

Radio-based SETI is grounded in the hope that an advanced civilization would intentionally broadcast on a radio frequency for the benefit of lesser developed civilizations such as ours. It's a naive paternalistic fantasy if you look at it a certain way. But I think it's invaluable even as a species-wide gesture of hope. If I were some mega-billionaire I'd definitely fund an Ellie Arroway.

As for the concept of planets eventually being converted into massive brains, that's my own theory for the logical extent of the singularity as well. Unfortunately I believe at some point in the thousand year process the earth-brain becomes rather indifferent to our continued existence. We're like an enzyme. Maybe a healhy earth-brain is mindful of its enzymes.

Personally, I think Kurzweil's theories are the answer to why the sky isn't full of Dyson spheres. There's just no point in building such a large structure just to harness the power of a naturally occuring star.

When your entire civilization exists as information bouncing around inside a computer, you hardly need any real energy at all, because everything is so extremely efficient.

As for why SETI can't find anything, I'm pretty sure it's because we're looking for radio signals, which are probably just a transitional technology -- they're fine for a civilization limited to a single planet, but even a civilization spread throughout a solar system would really want something that could cheat the light speed limit.

Or maybe we're really God's chosen people, and the only sentient beings around, which makes our reckless abuse of our only home planet seem all the more depressing.

Well quantum foam is a theoretical concept, we could just as well say we will communicate by playing the strings under the super string theory.

Pulsars on the other hand have a very steady beat of radiation. So I don't know how that could translate.

I still think SETI is a bit far out there, I mean how does an ant know what a radio wave looks like? How would we know what advanced civilization communication looks like then? I do understand their concept of looking for above normal signals.

But whats there to say they are emit signals now? The internet could be run as a closed system and you can never detect its communication. Like say a closed LAN.

Questions.

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I've often wondered if there might be some FTL communication net that we just haven't detected yet - vibrations in the quantum foam.

Or if you don't need FTL - maybe some pulsars are carrying messages. Optical SETI is an interesting sub-branch of SETI

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We need a SETI-like program to look for intelligent life in Texas.

So, SETI is a few blocks away from me and I stopped by there a couple years ago. Walked in and Ms. Tartar was sitting there in the empty lobby, waiting for people to arrive. Turns out the Jodie Foster character in the movie Contact was loosely based on her and her work. Interesting to talk with her -- even though I don't think we're receiving any extraterrestrial communication any time soon.

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