StringJunky

I was referring to detecting evidence of civilisation on Earth. The medium will be electromagnetic and wireless is the earliest consistently emitted signal I can think of.

That sounds like an enlarging prostate, which is pretty typical in aging men. I use zinc to deal with it.

That's my attitude.

Never realised it was silicon dioxide... yeah, glass doesn't warm up. Found this reddit. Could the reason be this:

I wasn't sure if a domestic microwave could excite silica molecules and carry on heating.

It can't get hotter than 100c, until the water evaporates... can it?

If the sachets are stored in the air they will absorb water. As a suggestion: Put all your stuff together, then microwave your sachet and immediately pack it with your objects in a gas-proof bag (the shiny metallic bags) or container.

Do you understand what NTuft meant with SPONCH CaFe?

Description by Politico on the upcoming case: OJ Simpson on steroids.

No hypothesis or theory can be be conceived in a vacuum without reference to, and agreement with, what we already know. A hypothesis is your idea, and a theory is what you use to test it via principles contained within it.

Cheers. Thanks to this board, I've gradually weaned myself off the commonsense view of fundamental objects as physically material, like in our everday macro view of objects we can see unaided.

We can only make hypotheses based on theories that work for us now. Until we have other reliable theories, we are stuck with GR. We can't say anything meaningful until then. It's great to have imagination, but it has to withstand the rigors of experimental analysis, and agree with prevailing theory and observation.

Regardless of the technology c is c. Anything faster is magic at this point.

The furthest indication of our presence is from when the wireless was invented. Our aliens can't be any more than about 130lyrs from Earth (1894 wireless invented) otherwise we are undetectable. We now need to think about the probability of there being aliens in that 130lyr radius. I would say our ability to detect objects up to that distance is pretty good. How many 130lyrs spheres can you fit in 100 000 lyr galaxy, like ours? We are in just one of those spheres. Beyond that sphere, evidence of our presence is unavailable by the rules of Relativity.

I'm tending towards interpreting a thing as a composite of 'behaviours', where maths describes quantitavely each parameter within a system, and how they interact to describe the system as a discrete mental object. Am I way off?

Taking a cue from the Chinese regime.

Yes, he'll no doubt try to make political capital out of it.

Looks like he's going to have black fingertips shortly, having his prints taken. Lots of jail memes on the horizon...

Yes, I would say we have the sky scoped out pretty well. Plus 15 billion phones being used and 96% of the global population owning one according to Statista.

Disney has been very busy tweaking some of its governance practices and rules preparing for DeSantis-friendly stooges on its board. Will the GOP be able to dismantle what Disney has done? The last paragraph made me smile... quite original.

Rand Paul's blocked it. I agree.

Mistermack is talking the weather, not the climate.

The likelihood is pretty high imo, just not in our neighbourhood.

Some people want things yesterday and won't wait, so they wish too hard and start seeing things how they want something to be.