From the comments about why aliens aren’t trying to talk to us:
We keep sending out offers to join the Honey Boo-boo fan club to the Mensa community and wondering why nobody has yet responded.
9 Likes
I mean, the early days had Hitler, though at least at low enough power and nondirectional so it’s unlikely to be picked up (sorry, Contact). At least Honey Boo-boo is a different kind of horror?
5 Likes
Is that not something that can be described as its own kind of horror?
Speaking only for myself, I’m referring to that whole fad/situation/thing, not the specific person. Even more so since I’m just speaking of broadcasts. Sure, it gets confusing with the nickname being plastered all over the thing itself, but maybe you can give me the benefit of the doubt on that?
4 Likes
Yeah.
As I understand the argument [P.S. Based on the website]:
-
The traditional chronology needs a long Dark Age, which relatively scanty archaeological evidence, and in some cases in Cyprus and Sicily, ambiguity about whether finds appear before or after.
-
Counter. But a long dark age is entirely possible, and in Greece, there are several successive styles of pottery from the Dark Age.
-
Various archaeological correspondences, such as pottery, link the Mediterranean chronology to the Egyptian chronology.
-
The accepted chronology is based on historical evidence. Begining with 3rd-party citations of Manetho’s lost Hellenistic history of Egypt. Which actually have helped identify the dynasties and the pharoahs, but often leave doubt about which dynasties ruled in successio and which at the same time. The earliest reconstructions assumed they ruled in succession, but it’s become clear that some ruled at the same time, and these authors suggest that more ruled at the same time in the Third Intermediate Period, shortening the period. In addition, the Egyptian chronology was fixed by the identification of the pharoah Shoshenq I with the biblical pharoah Shishak who sacked Jerusalem in about 926 BCE. The names match. The authors proposed Ramesses II instead, by one of his other names. And in addition to that, 2 observations of Sirius in Egyptian records.
-
The authors contend that, because people have taken these dates for granted, they haven’t used radiocarbon enough or carefully enough. And they haven’t been willing to publish mismatched radiocarbon dates.
-
Counter. Though others have used radiocarbon some.
So it looks like a plausible alternative timeline, but I still can’t judge the evidence, and don’t know if more radiocarbon dates have settled it.
2 Likes
In a similar vein but builds from other chronological tools, would be useful perhaps in identifying the eruption of Thera in the jumbled timeline of what—used to be? called the end of the bronze age:
Can we break the universe and send a giant space telescope ten thousand light years away (while remaining in our time and in real-time quantum-hoozit communication with Dirt) and just look? No? God dammit.
3 Likes
That said, the Republic really fell to Sulla, not Augustus.
4 Likes
Right. There is always a time for people in authority to fail to do their duty to at least keep things going while we make another attempt at allowing the people who already do all the shit to continue to do it while we figure out how to give the people hurt by society, a voice in society. The loop of responsibility must be closed if the expectation that society places upon people is that you should TAKE RESPONSIBILITY. This is basic shit. The first systemic issue is that everyone has a vote and that vote has a handle on the oversight and expertise to manage money supply issues.
2 Likes
“Unrecoverable wobble, with horrors.”
1 Like
What are sunspots anyway? Do they just get bigger?
5 Likes
Why is “observation” assumed to be a human process anyway? That has always been a stupid way to describe collapse.
Who else would be doing the observing?
1 Like
Wave function collapse happens due to reasons other than someone “looking”. If the test apparatus isn’t monitored by a hoo mon, collapse will still occur. This is basic stuff that should be more obvious than it apparently is.
1 Like
But surely occurrence and observation are two different things?
1 Like
In quantum, I think those words both mean something else. Is there a quantum physicist around?
If a wave function collapses in a forest, and no one’s around…
3 Likes
“Possibly untrue” due to:
In a CNN interview, Eau de Space founder and chemist Steve Pearce said NASA had contracted him to develop the simulated odor in 2008—which would be a cool story by itself, but it doesn’t match up with the Kickstarter’s campaign of a “decades old” program that had to be unearthed through FOIA.
4 Likes
Now there’s an untapped market.
So, little whiffs of ozone, hydrazine, industrial metal etching agents, and whatever they use to scrub CO_2 with, so yeah, “arc welding fumes”
4 Likes
More on the technosignatures previously mentioned on Apo Watch
2 Likes
Probably smells a lot like a Harbor Freight store.
3 Likes