"William December Starr" <
wds...@panix.com> wrote:
> Bill Steele <
ws...@cornel.edu> said:
>> Exo planet Kepler 186f is 500 light years away.
>> If we send them a radio signal we won't get
>> an answer until 3014.
>
"William Starr" wrote:
> Unless of course the answer is
> "Hi there, we've got FTL! Nyah nyah!"
>
hanson wrote:
.... ahahahaha... This thread is cool; rolling from
Goss' Porn to Fartmaker's Alien Mega strong IQ
to FTL. .... Only in s.p. ... Seriously though...
>
Yes, the standard paradigm says there is no FTL
and 3014 will be day... To boot "understanding" of
the message requires synchronization of cultures.
>
We have problems deciphering documents from
the 14th century, and much less would be 14th
century folks to even recognize a radio message
for lack of required technology.
>
However, a solution may not be out of reach.
It requires a huge paradigm change in the
way what we call information transfer today.
>
Start speculating with "entanglement" and or
"spook action at a distance" etc. both of which
imply the existence of some type of information
presence [1] that happens instantaneously.
>
We still look at such information [1] as being
fantasy but it actually happens internalized in
our thoughts by which we can travel in the blink
of a thought from here to the edge or into other
far away universes without restraint nor hesitation.
>
So, begin R&D on how to "externalize" our FTL-
using thought processes and see where it leads
to, before externalizing it with laughing it off as
being impossible... Still, till then... just to hedge,
thanks for the laughs....ahahaha... ahahahahanson