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Re:The Fermi Paradox Revisited: Technosignatures and the Con... by actionfromafar on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @07:08PM (#34074825)
So begin with a sequence of 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1. That establishes a baseline cadence of minutes, or hours or whatever. A clock signal if you will.

Then switch to primes. I think anyone looking at that kind of message will figure it out eventually. It can't be mistaken for a natural occurence.

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Re:The Fermi Paradox Revisited: Technosignatures and the Con... by denton-scratch on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @11:18AM (#34082633)
> So begin with a sequence

That is the trick that I was calling out. The intervals are reals, and cannot be made into a sequence. Beginning with a sequence is even worse; what is in evidence (for the aliens) is a set of real intervals. That's what the aliens have to begin with.

Now explain how they get to primes.

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Re:The Fermi Paradox Revisited: Technosignatures and the Con... by actionfromafar on Thursday December 22, 2022 @08:10AM (#34092864)
If the precision between the intervals is good, how can you not get to primes? Of course the intervals would be real, but there would be a very discernible pattern.

It would stare you in the face, or what am I missing?

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