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Cosmic LogMicrosoft works with students on Golden Record 2.0 Forty-seven years after NASA sent a “Golden Record” into deep space to document humanity’s view of the world, Microsoft’s Project Silica is teaming up with a citizen-science effort to lay the groundwork — or, more aptly, the glasswork — for doing something similar.<a href="https://cosmiclog.com/2024/09/05/microsoft-works-with-students-on-golden-record-2-0/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cosmiclog.com/2024/09/05/microsoft-works-with-students-on-golden-record-2-0/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GeekWire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeekWire</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Aliens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Aliens</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DataStorage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DataStorage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/InterstellarFlight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InterstellarFlight</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MicrosoftResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MicrosoftResearch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a>

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@DrFlay" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@DrFlay</a> <blockquote>... politicians that were allowed to see the classified info were persuaded [ufo data is] real ... [and we] are not privy to [it.] </blockquote>Real and unidentified, yes. Aerial navigation or other hazards, yes. Equipment or observational or human perceptual issues, yes. Unexplained... follows from being unidentified. Which is why the armed forces and civil navigation agencies must work to identify these things. Jumping to "they're extraterrestrial" is jumping to the most improbable answer, considering the mind-numbingly great distance and time necessary to travel between stars. I'm not saying no, I'm not saying impossible, but that no amount of wishing or trying to massage data to increase the probabilities is going to make it true. Belief for those not in the know is even more unfounded. Belief that affirmative information is being hidden derives from even less understanding and less data, and lots of confirmation bias, and people with axes to grind or money to make taking advantage of a level of gulliablity.I am only deriding the belief and the idiocy of belief and the manipulation of belief for someone's gain. I'd welcome finding extraterrestrial civilization. Then I'd worry why they went to all that trouble. It would certainly disrupt our societies, especially considering rampant xenophobia we see everyday in the news. How the religious would react with humanity no longer the center of the universe would be interesting. The discovery would change... EVERYTHING.PS: The wisdom of trusting politicians aside, let's not mischaracterizes the released data as somehow affirming extraterrestrial origins. Let's not mischaracterize that high speed or high energy phenomenon that is unidentified could also actually be being kept secret as it can release information about military assets and research, or other investigations. Reading between the lines in search of clues to secrets is assuming there are hints inserted there, intentionally, and that begs the question, why would information officers do that? <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sf</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ufo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ufo</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingCommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/belief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#belief</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ftl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ftl</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/interstellarflight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#interstellarflight</a>

Fraser CainWill Solar Panels Work at Proxima Centauri?Solar panels are the perfect way to provide electricity for spacecraft operating near the Sun. Spacecraft as far out as Jupiter can still power their instruments with solar panels. But would these devices work at other stars? A new study looked at the light output of different types of stars and compared them to solar panels using the Sun. An interesting example is Proxima Centauri, which could be the first star we visit with an interstellar probe.<a href="https://m.universetoday.com/tags/interstellarflight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#interstellarflight</a><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-43224-5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-43224-5</a>

Fraser CainWant to Explore Proxima Centauri? Send in the Swarm!Scientists and engineers are working on tiny spacecraft that could be hurled at nearby stars like Proxima Centauri. But how can we communicate their discoveries across light-years of distance? A new paper suggests that we should be sending thousands of spacecraft that can work as a mesh network to communicate with each other and send messages back to Earth. Sending so many spacecraft should allow data transmission rates to be orders of magnitude faster than a single probe.<a href="https://m.universetoday.com/tags/interstellarflight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#interstellarflight</a><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373833951_Swarming_Proxima_Centauri_Optical_Communications_Over_Interstellar_Distances" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373833951_Swarming_Proxima_Centauri_Optical_Communications_Over_Interstellar_Distances</a>

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