StringJunky

"Infamy! Infamy! They've got it in for me!" - Carry on Cleo 1964

https://www.reuters.com/science/scientists-expand-search-signs-intelligent-alien-life-2023-05-31/

I read in Reuters yesterday a project is starting to zoom in a small patch of our galaxy to look for deliberate signals. Interestingly, it said we don't consciously send out signals as a beacon to other worlds because we don't know if their intentions are friendly or not.

Of course, no probs.

On Earth we have millions of datapoints of all species classes and we can find out how common high intelligence is paired with low metabolism. I think we can reasonably extrapolate that to other worlds.

Could you name a slow-metabolizing, intelligent organism on this planet? The two states are energetically at odds.

the start point for everything was 13.7B years ago. It's taken 13.7billion to get where we are today in development. If you assert a slower-metabolizing organism, it's evolutionary progress will likely be much slower than ours. Basically, the idea doesn't parse for me.

If their metabolism is extremely retarded relative to us, then they will not be developed as us. Would they?

Definitely, especially things of this nature. Until people can find a way around c, it's not happening... in my limited knowledge. That doesn't mean they aren't 'there', but it does mean they aren't likely to be in detectable proximity. Is that a reasonable position?

@Saber Purposeful evolution is 'teleologically-driven evolution, which is a form of religious-type creationism by a supernatural actor.

There's too many people that arbitrarily believe in alien-occupied ET UFO's. The confirming evidence needs to be solid.

'Evolution is a blind watchmaker' is often used to describe the evolutionary process. Everything new is a complete accident and is the result of a genetic mutation. If it works it stays and if it breaks it's gone. Reproductive fecundity and pure luck in the environment determine what features persist.

As annoying as we are, we believe what we think with the full clarity and openess to personal limits as you do. Some peoples thoughts seem to emanate from a pure theatre of uncluttered thoughts, where things are things related according to the natural laws. The other viewpoint is taken from standing in the mess and taking it from there. One is idealistic and one is pragmatic.

OK. Ta.

The WF describes the probability distribution of finding quanta/field excitations in a particular position. If you want more detail quantumphysicslady breaks it down quite simplistically. https://quantumphysicslady.org/glossary/wave-function/

It might give an edge in close range urban type warfare where radars are not practical and sight prevails as the primary mode of detection.

QFT. This is the essence of why the scientific method works; independent rebuttal or verification.

If LED media can be made flexible, I visualized it could be used as reactive camouflage material. If one put led screen material on the underside of the plane and a camera pointing upwards towards the sky, it could relay the camera scene to the underside of the plane, more closely matching the sky in real-time. Plausible? Drones would be an easier first application, I think.

Thank you Mordred. the way some sites talk, it's on the verge of application.

Yeah, I was going to ask how long to filter down to consumers... LOL!

Compensation is equivalent to putting plasters on the problem and systemic change is the surgery.

That is clever stuff. It's new to me.

Is it to act as an alarm trigger when data is breached? In this scenario no information is transmitted. The wavefunction acts as the trigger.

Is quantum cryptology where the entanglement is used as a trigger to notify of a breach; an attacker collapses the wavefunction? e2a I'll make it a question