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Western modernity something something, decolonization something something! Science bad! Voodoo good!
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Yeah but Mars was always a big supporter of war! You live by the sword, you get shot with a satellite...There we go, bombing other celestial bodies again.
article said:The two astronomers used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and analyzed the spectra of 2.5 million stars. Of all those stars, they found 234 stars that are producing a puzzling signal. That's only a tiny percentage. And, they say, these signals "have exactly the shape of an ETI signal" that was predicted in a previous study by Borra.
The 234 stars in Borra and Trottier's study aren't random. They're "overwhelmingly in the F2 to K1 spectral range" according to the abstract. That's significant because this is a small range centred around the spectrum of our own Sun. And our own Sun is the only one we know of that has an intelligent species living near it. If ours does, maybe others do too?
The authors acknowledge five potential causes of their findings: instrumental and data reduction effects, rotational transitions in molecules, the Fourier transform of spectral lines, rapid pulsations, and finally the ETI signal predicted by Borra (2012). They dismiss molecules or pulsations as causes, and they deem it highly unlikely that the signals are caused by the Fourier analysis itself. This leaves two possible sources for the detected signals. Either they're a result of the Sloan instrument itself and the data reduction, or they are in fact a signal from extra-terrestrial intelligences.
To sum it all up, the two astronomers have found a tiny number of stars, very similar to our own Sun, that seem to be the source of pulsed signals. These signals are the same as predicted if a technological society was using powerful lasers to communicate with distant stars.
This might fuck with allot of theories if it turns out to be true in any way.So the universes expansion rate was calculated using about 70 type 1a super novas all over the observable universe which gave a sigma 5. (higher sigmas mean they're more likely to be real, the higgs boson was sigma 7 as an example) . Well they analysed 10x as many super nova in a recent study and it dropped to 3! This throws the concept of an expanding universe into question and might remove the necessity of dark energy. If it pans out we may be living in a very stable universe.
The universe is expanding at an accelerating rate—or is it?
Just be careful because most of the modalities in which a 9th massive planet is responsible for the axial tilt of the sun appear to be incompatible with the proposed 9th planet that explains the orbits of Oort Plutoids (that are also mentioned in the article).
Sure, but as my fantasy goes, the ship is already built and at least seems like it has a reasonable chance of success, not "a comet is coming and we have to build it right now even if we aren't ready." In reality it is far more likely that a human element fucks it all up and kills everyone first, but either way, who cares? Statistically speaking I'm going to die in the next 10-40 years anyway, why not do it trying for something awesome?
My guess is your trip would be terminated jn s few hundred years by some bro knocking on the door of your craft saying, "hey, you guys can keep going if you want but uh, we have warp 3 right now and we started feeling bad about leaving yall just crawling through the void."
Hah! I'm not sure if he got his pun or not, but that gif cracks me up.
My guess is your trip would be terminated jn s few hundred years by some bro knocking on the door of your craft saying, "hey, you guys can keep going if you want but uh, we have warp 3 right now and we started feeling bad about leaving yall just crawling through the void."