SreudianFlip

Yes. My point is that the theoretical approach is

• already sf inspired: cf. warp drives etc.
• applying our limitations as universal is also a sf ‘plot twist’, as it’s highly unlikely that we understand enough to be conclusive
• slow travel is just the ‘better canoe paddle’ approach… probably near impossible
• relativistic speeds are unlikely effective not so much because of on-board problems but because human society is so volatile, as more than a common sf trope
• and most importantly: separate scientific framework descriptions from dogma, as science is provisional and assumes a better proof is simply waiting for better research; speculation is inspiration and goal-setting

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It’s impossible to be “realistic” about travel, as it is one of the things where we don’t know how little we know. We theorize about alcubierre warp fields and wormholes or generation ships or machine intelligences but isn’t that like saying you can’t canoe to the moon? Do our paleo ancestors have anything to say about ion drives or plutonium energy sources?

I appreciate all the skeptics on space travel, but so many fall down on turning the same skepticism on our own limits to knowledge, and assume we know enough to make conclusive assumptions about something we have never tried.

Earth has been giving off obvious chemical evidence of life signs for eons. Any Type 1 civilization would have seen it a long time ago and we would stand out like glass on the beach.

Even if they haven’t arrived to check it out, which I doubt, they will be watching carefully in various ways.

So: zoo hypothesis seems more likely than anything to me.

Anyone who hosts websites can check the logs and see the bots hammering away at wp/admin primarily, even if you are not running any WordPress. Low hanging meat? Fresh fruit?

1. Monal (on a mac)

2. Marketing, sadly , actually works… plus network-effects

You don’t need to share any server technology names, just that it’s the Matrix protocol or “platform”, or even just “Element” if they are using that app. I don’t tell other matrix users they are on a Synapse server.

Only the host needs to know about the server app name, and is the only one who interacts with it directly.

Cool! But why stop there?

Add automation to the sensors that turn on the disco lights when there’s couch nookie goin’ on!

Can you run an automatic chicken door with that? Last time I looked, DIY arduino was the way, but a zwave mechanism with homeassistant automation sounds excellent.

Idiomatic usage breaks down into ‘familiar’, so, confusing intuition with knowledge, or ‘discoverable’, which is more accurate and describes things like icons and tooltips and menus, where the rules of usage become more or less apparent with exploration and logic.

I think the suggestion is that if they leave the content available, they can still write it off.