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Re:I’m a Physicist Who Searches for Aliens. U.F.O.s Don’t Im... by sandworm101 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @11:44AM (#27356287)
>> The signal never improves.

It does. The xkcd comic below says it best. In recent decades the number of available sensors (cameras) have radically increased. So too has the quality of those cameras. But have we seen more and better pictures? No. The quality of evidence is not tied to the increasing quality of the signal source. If anything, the signal is increasingly pointing towards 'not real'.

https://xkcd.com/1235/

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Re:I’m a Physicist Who Searches for Aliens. U.F.O.s Don’t Im... by SideburnsOfDoom on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @03:34PM (#27360076)
What I meant by "the signal" was the opposite.

But it's also true that something that remains liminal while sensors radically improve, is actually retreating fast. And that is a signal.

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