Re:A Search for Technosignatures Around 11,680 Nearby Stars
by ethanpil on Thursday August 17, 2023 @12:14AM
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Sounds like a great premise for a hard sci-fi novel. let me know when you have a draft, I'll read it!
Re:A Search for Technosignatures Around 11,680 Nearby Stars
by frankgrimesjr on Thursday August 17, 2023 @01:01AM
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IIRC, modulating light from a star is part of the plot from The Dark Forest.
Re:A Search for Technosignatures Around 11,680 Nearby Stars
by Geee on Thursday August 17, 2023 @01:42AM
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I'd love to write sci-fi one day. Don't hold your breath though. :)
Re:A Search for Technosignatures Around 11,680 Nearby Stars
by Firmwarrior on Thursday August 17, 2023 @01:55AM
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Read A Fire Upon the Deep
Re:A Search for Technosignatures Around 11,680 Nearby Stars
by andsoitis on Thursday August 17, 2023 @12:30AM
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Sounds partially like the plot (or the conspiracy theory) from Contact, starring Jodie Foster.
Re:A Search for Technosignatures Around 11,680 Nearby Stars
by holografix on Thursday August 17, 2023 @12:35AM
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The book, like in almost all cases, is so much better than then the movie.
Eg: she doesn’t travel alone. Think about what that does to the plot.
Re:A Search for Technosignatures Around 11,680 Nearby Stars
by TaylorAlexander on Thursday August 17, 2023 @12:38AM
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Ooooh it’s one of my favorite movies I’m surprised I never realized there is a book! Actually I probably knew at some point that there was a book but it didn’t occur to me it would be better than the movie!
Re:A Search for Technosignatures Around 11,680 Nearby Stars
by galaxyLogic on Thursday August 17, 2023 @12:47AM
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Usually the movie feels worse if you have read the book already. Imagination is so much better than movie
Re:A Search for Technosignatures Around 11,680 Nearby Stars
by TaylorAlexander on Thursday August 17, 2023 @12:51AM
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Yah I read The Martian before seeing the movie and found the movie left so much out! Makes sense as the audiobook is 10 hours and the movie is 2.
Re:A Search for Technosignatures Around 11,680 Nearby Stars
by dylan604 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @02:52AM
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but by going alone, it adds that much more tension/suspicion on if it actually happened. it's easier to believe if more people go and have the same experience. unless it's the Sphere where they all just agree on the idea.
Re:A Search for Technosignatures Around 11,680 Nearby Stars
by wolverine876 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @01:15AM
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> Isn't modulating the light from a star the easiest way to transmit information afar? This would be the case if you want someone to notice.
We aren't doing that.
Re:A Search for Technosignatures Around 11,680 Nearby Stars
by alex_young on Thursday August 17, 2023 @02:46AM
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Yet
Re:A Search for Technosignatures Around 11,680 Nearby Stars
by cyberax on Thursday August 17, 2023 @02:28AM
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> If I was a digital superintelligence, I would try to conquer the universe by transmitting myself everywhere with maximum power
Hah. This is the plot of "Existence" by David Brin.
In this book, civilizations are destroyed by crystals, containing computers running virtual realities for its inhabitants. The inhabitants subvert the civilizations, giving them technology to build these crystals, upload themselves into them, and then spend all the resources to spam the universe with these crystals.
Re:A Search for Technosignatures Around 11,680 Nearby Stars
by dylan604 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @02:54AM
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Building something around a star would require so much effort. would it not be easier to send out something at a further distance so it could be smaller and eclipse the star for anything on that path? you could then open/close it like a shutter to make it blink the signal. you'd have to put one in the line of sight for each thing you're communicating with, but that still seems easier than some dyson sphere type object
If I was a digital superintelligence, I would try to conquer the universe by transmitting myself everywhere with maximum power, including instructions to construct a computer which can run me. I could do this by constructing a modulating device around a star. Surely there would be some sort of 'easy detection code' which allows primitive species to first notice the signal and start studying it, and then progressively include more advanced instructions + data.