/sci/ - Science & Math

>>1435372
hyper advanced race of some kind with dark intentions comes to power, for whatever reason they are unstoppable

they communicate in such a way that other races would have trouble detecting them (perhaps laser transmissions). Upon detecting any radio signals or communications, they descend on the system and wipe out everything.

it's certainly possible, and in fact it's an easy way to find fertile systems. if they can support life, bound to have some nice resources.

>>1435231
in the dark forest; the first ones to shout out for help or to find others
are the first eaten by the wolves.

>>1434532
this analogy always fails because an ant has no personality, sentience, or means of communication

aged

>>1434355
indeed it is
but it's a hoax

>>1433564
hence
>Several universities are scrambling to find methods to attach artifical antibodies to the gold nanoparticles in order to effectively treat all kind of cancer, as well as aggressive cancer that has rogue cells

antibody laden gold nanoparticles float around the blood stream, and bind to any cancer cells they come across (each strain of cancer has protein tags the antibodies attach to)

so basically these thing hit cancer cells and ONLY cancer cells. it's the golden bullet, literally

time for another boros(tm) discussathon
TODAY'S TOPIC; cancer, specifically how it will be cured in 5 years

see this;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanzius_RF_Therapy
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux5QG0eqFqQ

Most of the machine has already been designed and built, it has a 100% success rate on rat tumors (Breaks them to bits over a few weeks) and it doesn't harm surrounding tissue. Several universities are scrambling to find methods to attach artifical antibodies to the gold nanoparticles in order to effectively treat all kind of cancer, as well as aggressive cancer that has rogue cells (the deadliest kind). It's basically chemo that's even more powerful and infinitely more precise.

Are you ready /sci/? are you ready for cancer to become as much of a medical emergency as a broken arm? To be reduced to a single injection and about half a dozen RF exposure sessions over as many weeks? (lying down on a table)

discuss

>>1431143
ROW ROW FIGHT DA POWAH
also include in those data caches some way to translate all the data by way of mathematics. ALSO include reliable ways to detect and divert oncoming asteroids, detection of solar flares, also GRBs

you know what fuck it
lets do this

ice sun melts very quickly as it approaches lava sun, the gasses escape easily due to vacuum. As they collide, the imact energy further melts the ice sun, and the incredible force of impact releases tons of hydrogen and oxygen as the ice flashes to steam and is ripped apart, which explode when in the right proportions.

what would you see? obviously the light from the impact, but look into close-UV and it's REALLY bright since hydrogen burns in the ultraviolet.

>>1427409
excellent
and if it turns out aliens do communicate via some other means, it doubles up as an excellent radio telescope

>>1426595
they're shitty dishes but there's a fuckton of them, standard affair of building many small dishes instead of one big one.

yaknow about the Very Large Array? yeah

>>1426347
christ that's depressing

>>1424981
oh fuck people other than me have heard of him
just watch his standard model actually be correct

>>1424605
>14 billion year lifespan of universe
>our solar system is actually like a 3rd generation
>we are the most advanced in the entire universe

doubtful

>>1422614
>So if this guy has any credence
that's the question innit?
needs more data

>>1422583
WELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
there was this one fellow name Heim who made a really wacky standard model, allowed for weird shit like a gravitoelectromagnetic effect and gravitophotons and shit. and he used to model to predict the existence and properties of a few yet-undiscovered particles. Within a few years he was proven right to within a few thousandths of a decimal point, so obviously it's got some credence.

one offshoot of his model is some kind of slipspace embedded within normal 11 dimensional space which has a light speed limit several thousands of times faster than normal.

dip your comm systems into there and presto! fast radio travel (probably laser comms)

>>1422558
see point #1, which seems to be the most likely

if any alien civ has any hope of expanding outwards in any meaningful way, it'll have to be able to communicate FTL. either through some kind of slipspace or harnessing and emitting tachyons or whateverthefuck

too bad we're still to primitive to get that ;_;

>>1422497
still doesn't explain the almost total silence from just about everywhere.

>>1422457
fuck DAMN i hope so, but it's never been re-observed, and it's conceivable that is was a natural phenomena, just kind of unlikely.

>>1422007
as a side note, that sounds like an AWESOME biopunk setting. smell-data is being overtaken by digital, the times they are a changin'

>>1421658
>implying you can have a digital revolution based on smell transfers, and that smell-data can cross mediums (into space)

this is very stretchy

>>1421559
>implying we do tightly focused radio broadcasts or only listen on channel 777 or something

they scan every god damn spectrum of radio. current monitoring is around 100 million channel scan or something. Not perfect but quite comprehensive.

>>1421461
bit of a fallacy here
seems like he's trying to compare radio waves to the very-specific-to-one-type-of-animal pheromone trails, which is a little bit silly considering that radio waves are INCREDIBLY important in astronomy, and likely other sentient races would use it for "calls in the dark"

the problem is the, well, noise problem, which might have been easily overcome by more advanced civs using more advanced technology. technology which we sadly have not come across yet

>>1421388
indeed i did