Posted on 05/18/2010 11:34:34 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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So did I. Hummm...
If you checksum the mal-formatted data, then whether it’s formatted correctly or not doesn’t matter, the checksum will still be valid unless it gets clobbered in transit.
Oh okay, never mind.
Laser light.
It was a stupid theory to begin with. Alien civilizations would have better transmitters light years ahead than one of a 33 old spacecraft that is slowly dying.
space ping
“It was a stupid theory to begin with. Alien civilizations would have better transmitters light years ahead than one of a 33 old spacecraft that is slowly dying.”
Aliens might not even use the small bit of the EM spectrum we use - or even not use the EM spectrum at all - to communicate.
Laser communication
No laser of which ever color is within what we use -— think outside the box as in fields instead of vectors to describe a comm system. cf James Clerk Maxwell (now obscure, but was greatest physicist after Newton and before Albert Einstein) — quaternions was the term he used to describe his fields, but 4 were rewritten as vectors and the other 196 were discarded, from the four comes the entire description of our EM spectrum. Aliens might use the other 196 of which we know nothing.
How about as modulated neutrino or gravitational wave emissions. These would have the advantage of being essentially immune to interference by intervening matter, but are very difficult to generate or detect with current technology.
While that could be a possibility, the point was that they may use a physics which we know nothing about as the basis of their communications. It is also a possibility that our EM based communications are in a decided minority of possible choices.
Had Maxwell's other 196 quaternions been pursued, among the possibilities described are free energy, instant communications and physical travel between any two points anywhere at any distance... what the present day world would look like would be entirely different.
But since what they describe is impossible, they must be dismissed unfollowed...
We live in a world described by machines, but what if aliens live in worlds described by devices? You see the disparity here? We cannot comprehend what they are doing because we cannot ‘see’ their ‘technology’ -— and so cannot hear their communications.
We are looking in the wrong places, but are unable to cross the line to look in the right places, since we have defined those places as impossible.
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