I'm drunk...
... I just saw a beautiful sift of Nuriev dancing Le Corsier (sp? because i'm drunk), and it occurred to me: what an amazing thing that I can sift something from a 9 to a 10 and bring it to a wider audience and hopefully expose them to something so unlikely in the grand scheme of the universe... just beautiful...
... It got me to thinking. If by some chance we were to find a way to overcome the rules of physics and communicate with other intelligence across the universe and set up an "internet" that went beyond our planet... can you imagine the absolutely amazing, unlikely and wonderful things that we would sift? Could we possibly imagine the insanity of sifting something from 9 to 10 that just goes beyond anything in our conception of our own cultures?
Sorry, drunk and feeling inspired by the sift and all that it brings to me on a daily basis... I swear, if my financial situation improves, I'll become a charter member on a subscription, because the sift is a wonderful wonderful thing...
... I just saw a beautiful sift of Nuriev dancing Le Corsier (sp? because i'm drunk), and it occurred to me: what an amazing thing that I can sift something from a 9 to a 10 and bring it to a wider audience and hopefully expose them to something so unlikely in the grand scheme of the universe... just beautiful...
... It got me to thinking. If by some chance we were to find a way to overcome the rules of physics and communicate with other intelligence across the universe and set up an "internet" that went beyond our planet... can you imagine the absolutely amazing, unlikely and wonderful things that we would sift? Could we possibly imagine the insanity of sifting something from 9 to 10 that just goes beyond anything in our conception of our own cultures?
Sorry, drunk and feeling inspired by the sift and all that it brings to me on a daily basis... I swear, if my financial situation improves, I'll become a charter member on a subscription, because the sift is a wonderful wonderful thing...
It takes light 8 minutes to get from the sun. Imagine the lag from someone in a station orbiting Mercury.
Or if you don't need FTL - maybe some pulsars are carrying messages. Optical SETI is an interesting sub-branch of SETI
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.
You're right, it could be something so far beyond us- that we have no way of grasping it.
All of our rapid advances in communication tech over the last 100 years has given us some species hubris that we are cutting edge- to a type III civilisation, we would be ants building nests - but even ants have a kind of ambition- so maybe we shouldn't lose hope.
Also, with regard to pulsars, or any stars for that matter- there could be barely discernible fluctuations in the light strength that would form a kind of modulation. The pulsar pattern might be the bigger signal saying "hey look at me" and then the subtle message comes after you know that's where to look. If I wanted to create a message beacon that many galaxies could tune in to, I would use something like a pulsar- so at least people would know where to look.
This snippet from the Wikipedia article on pulsars is very interesting:
How could intergalactic internet work anyway.
It takes light 8 minutes to get from the sun. Imagine the lag from someone in a station orbiting Mercury.
I can't even get my wireless to reach my upstairs from the downstairs...
*quality drunkeness!
hmmm i have points to invoke... cmon now bot