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Reminds me of that paper I read a long time ago, about how we could detect advanced alien civilizations by analysing pulsar signals. The hypothesis was that the
by fouronnes3 5y ago
Reminds me of that paper I read a long time ago, about how we could detect advanced alien civilizations by analysing pulsar signals. The hypothesis was that they would put massive devices in orbit of pulsars to modulate their high energy signals to use as ultra long range communication. Presumably pulsars would be the only strong enough carrier wave.
- version_five 5y agoNow I'm imagining a future where some modulated binary star merger is being used to stream episodes over Netflix. Hopefully we manage to find a way to miniaturize things.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoImagine waiting hundreds of years for the new episode to reach your distant star system
- hasmanean 5y agoReally you only have to wait one week for each episode to reach you.
- hoten 5y agoWhat would the throughput be on something like that?