From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 15:00:47 MDT
Robert Bradury noted:
<<They have better things to do. I just read Egan's "The Plank Dive"
last night. Didn't understand much of the black hole stuff but
thought the transmission of a human "entity" in an exabyte of
information was great.>>
Ah Yes...
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/uploading_life_010618.html
<<WASHINGTON - Long journeys of flesh and bone astronauts might become a
thing of the past. Human space travel in the 21st century could be, quite
literally, an out-of-body experience. It sounds like New Age meets the Space
Age. But one sociologist argues that uploading digital representations of our
personalities and behavior into the cosmos rather than in-person star
trekking is a form of space transportation worth thinking about.>>
Is there not military tech that can notice gamma ray bursts, at least when
turned to earth?
<<So if ETI are communicating they are likely doing it at high pulse
rates (which almost all detectors we now use are unlikely to
detect for say OSETI). In addition it seems possible, if not probable,
that the frequencies may be high (UV to gamma) where we aren't
currently listening. Finally, they aren't going to be sending
these data streams at us -- all we will see is the spread of
the lasers if we happen to be along the line of sight between
them and someone they are sending the data to. Robert>>
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