That's the stuff. I have some homework to do.
That's the stuff. I have some homework to do.
HSMM. I'll be darned. I knew it was out there somewhere.
I might be gone awhile.
Hmmm... I got my license because I was interested in long-range communications, but also for Radio Astronomy.
I guess in my mind, that puts us between CB'ers and SETI.
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
--Philip K. Dick
That's channel 14 if I remember right.
"The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Both groups that haven't found intelligent life yet, but may yet in the futureOriginally Posted by N2NH
Jim
The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Another thought. Suppose instead of a MESH network maintained by Postman-like Elmers and Apprentices, suppose this. Imagine an inner-directed Signal Corps of electromagnetic Johhny Appleseeds. They'd plant mini net nodes like geo caches here and there and everywhere, accessible by cellphones with minimal hacking. Such a network might be readily shut down, but sheer numbers might overwhelm any effective suppressive attempts, such that by hook or crook, the email got through. Again, I don't know enough about how cellphones work to guess how easy they'd be to repurpose, or how much autonomous, self-powered intelligence could be cheaply jammed into, say, a ping pong ball sized container. Short of cloned biologic radios with chlorophyl-based energy transverterting skins, might not be so easy to match the economical elegance of apple seeds. Still, people are clever. I might not bet on a lot of human endevors, this kind of stuff is what some of us routinely do.
They aren't a "network", per se, but USB dead drops are kind of like planting "seeds" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_dead_drop
Jim
The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Just gimme a port for my brain. I want to plug in!
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
This looks nifty :)
Those USB dead drops look interesting. Being hams we'd naturally use the wireless version on upper sideband of course.
"Just gimme a port for my brain. I want to plug in!"
In time we'll develop one that works with your positronic neural network... Data.
"The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
73 de Warren KB2VXA
Station powered by atomic energy, operator powered by natural gas.
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