• cerement@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago

    telling the aliens their equivalent of eat glue and mix cocktails from bleach …

    • lemmyseizethemeans
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      2 months ago

      Sorry to be pedantic but it’s not ‘eat glue’ it’s ‘consider glue as an acceptable additive to assist on keeping cheese attached to your pizza’

      I am very smart

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
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    2 months ago

    Proper scientists (plural) said that? Or the author made that up and happens to be a scientist too?

  • Lugh@futurology.todayOPM
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    The crux of this idea is that if the speed of light severely limits two-way communication, why not get around that problem by sending the AI to them so they can talk to it, and not need back and forth communication to learn about us.

    Needless to say, readers of ‘The Three Body Problem’ will have mostly negative thoughts on this idea, but to me it poses a question. What if there are other alien civilizations doing this already - how would we spot them?