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The authors of this 1987 NASA report also "endorse the TCP/IP protocol as the standard to be used"... for now. But recommend "the eventual migration to the ISO/OSI protocol when practical." We're still waiting. For a while, it really seemed like OSI was going to win that standards war.
April 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The authors of this 1987 NASA report also "endorse the TCP/IP protocol as the standard to be used"... for now. But recommend "the eventual migration to the ISO/OSI protocol when practical." We're still waiting. For a while, it really seemed like OSI was going to win that standards war.
Abstract: Lunch is important and choosing where to have lunch is difficult. In this paper we demonstrate use of quantum randomness to find a place to eat, thus shifting the decision-making to the vacuum fluctuations of the universe. This QRLG is made publicly available.
April 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Abstract: Lunch is important and choosing where to have lunch is difficult. In this paper we demonstrate use of quantum randomness to find a place to eat, thus shifting the decision-making to the vacuum fluctuations of the universe. This QRLG is made publicly available.
Looking through some old National Academies Press reports and came across this absurdly melodramatic cover doi.org/10.17226/4765
March 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Looking through some old National Academies Press reports and came across this absurdly melodramatic cover doi.org/10.17226/4765
Thanks @jaykaydee.bsky.social. The book is only 2 weeks old, we can only aspire to being the go to text! If you're looking for work on metrology specifically, I also highly recommend The Measure of All Things by Ken Alder. Also the work of Susan Leigh Star.
March 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Thanks @jaykaydee.bsky.social. The book is only 2 weeks old, we can only aspire to being the go to text! If you're looking for work on metrology specifically, I also highly recommend The Measure of All Things by Ken Alder. Also the work of Susan Leigh Star.
One of the authors of the paper in my post yesterday is even more interesting than I'd previously realized. Hiromitsu Yokoo, I love this guy. Author of:
Type III Dyson Sphere of Highly Advanced Civilizations around a Super Massive Black Hole
www.scixplorer.org/abs/2011arXi...
Type III Dyson Sphere of Highly Advanced Civilizations around a Super Massive Black Hole
www.scixplorer.org/abs/2011arXi...
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March 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
One of the authors of the paper in my post yesterday is even more interesting than I'd previously realized. Hiromitsu Yokoo, I love this guy. Author of:
Type III Dyson Sphere of Highly Advanced Civilizations around a Super Massive Black Hole
www.scixplorer.org/abs/2011arXi...
Type III Dyson Sphere of Highly Advanced Civilizations around a Super Massive Black Hole
www.scixplorer.org/abs/2011arXi...
Actually I came across the citation to that paper when I was reading the book The Good Virus, by Tom Ireland. Which is excellent and I recommend it. But we have a record for Is bacteriophage φX174 DNA a message from an extraterrestrial intelligence? in the Astrophysics Data System. Science!
March 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Actually I came across the citation to that paper when I was reading the book The Good Virus, by Tom Ireland. Which is excellent and I recommend it. But we have a record for Is bacteriophage φX174 DNA a message from an extraterrestrial intelligence? in the Astrophysics Data System. Science!
Spoilers: Probably not.
"However further speculation is irresistable." No doubt!
"However further speculation is irresistable." No doubt!
March 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Spoilers: Probably not.
"However further speculation is irresistable." No doubt!
"However further speculation is irresistable." No doubt!
We speculate that a simple biological system carrying a message & capable of self-replication in suitable environments may be 1 possible channel for interstellar communication. A preliminary experiment was performed to test hypothesis that φC174 DNA carries a message from an advanced civilization.
March 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
We speculate that a simple biological system carrying a message & capable of self-replication in suitable environments may be 1 possible channel for interstellar communication. A preliminary experiment was performed to test hypothesis that φC174 DNA carries a message from an advanced civilization.
Is bacteriophage φX174 DNA a message from an extraterrestrial intelligence
Authors: Hiromitsu Yokoo & Tairo Oshima
Publication year: 1979
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1979Icar...
Authors: Hiromitsu Yokoo & Tairo Oshima
Publication year: 1979
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1979Icar...
Is bacteriophage φX174 DNA a message from an extraterrestrial intelligence?
We speculate that a simple biological system carrying a message and capable of self-replication in suitable environments may be one possible channel for interstellar communication. A preliminary exper...
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
March 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Is bacteriophage φX174 DNA a message from an extraterrestrial intelligence
Authors: Hiromitsu Yokoo & Tairo Oshima
Publication year: 1979
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1979Icar...
Authors: Hiromitsu Yokoo & Tairo Oshima
Publication year: 1979
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1979Icar...
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March 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Also new to our Essential Knowledge Series is @griffey.bsky.social & @jpomerantz.bsky.social's engaging introduction to standards, the invisible infrastructure that shapes the built and digital environments of the modern world: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254949...