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> Why not have a SETI-in-the-primes project, after all? Sure, it can run alongside SETI-in-the-burn-marks-on-toast and SETI-the-flour-spilled-on-the-table proj

by nkrisc 7y ago

> Why not have a SETI-in-the-primes project, after all? Sure, it can run alongside SETI-in-the-burn-marks-on-toast and SETI-the-flour-spilled-on-the-table projects.

javajosh 7y ago
Ah, but that's not quite the same. A message encoded in number theory itself is a far more difficult to author than just adjusting the position of 10^23 atoms.
- nkrisc 7y ago
  Then it shouldn't take nearly as long!