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Klannex Northmead · 09-04-2008, 07:10 PM

This is a good one. Scientists have observed that a certain class of star might be used to communicate over the vast intergalactic distances between advanced civilisations.

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The variance can be altered in cepheid variables by ET making a readable signal, so all we needs the modem right?

Edav Nomad · 09-05-2008, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Klannex Northmead

This is a good one. Scientists have observed that a certain class of star might be used to communicate over the vast intergalactic distances between advanced civilisations.

Communicating Via the Cepheid Galactic Internet | Universe Today

The variance can be altered in cepheid variables by ET making a readable signal, so all we needs the modem right?

Wasn't there a Sci-Fi writer awhile back who wrote about basically the same thing, because it seems like I've heard of something similar to that before.

Klannex Northmead · 09-06-2008, 04:02 AM

Yes it's truly fascinating the way sci-fi influences popular culture and so science itself. Ion engines, solar sails, etc.

The idea I find so appealing is that like reality, if you aint looking you aint gonna find it.

http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/sci...sion-fact.html

Science saying it's feasible in a way makes ot so, I bet all we need to connect is a simple pattern recognition circuit, oh for instance a Quantum computer.

detrius · 09-07-2008, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Klannex Northmead

Yes it's truly fascinating the way sci-fi influences popular culture and so science itself. Ion engines, solar sails, etc.

No kidding.

Verkin Raven · 09-08-2008, 11:11 AM

Ah, so the aliens will be able to wardrive us from even farther away. Neat.

nadir · 09-08-2008, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by detrius

No kidding.

on a sidenote, the new trek movie will have the the iphone converted into the flip communicator

detrius · 09-09-2008, 04:43 AM

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Originally Posted by nadir

on a sidenote, the new trek movie will have the the iphone converted into the flip communicator

The cell phone is really a prime example for circular influence between science and fiction.

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Dr. Martin Cooper found himself tripping over his phone cord when he saw Star Trek appear on the TV playing in the background. Cooper watched with envy as Captain Kirk calmly conversed while walking across an alien landscape.

“Suddenly there was Captain Kirk talking on his communicator,” remembers Cooper. “Talking! With no wires!”

Cooper, who was General Manager of Systems at Motorola, thought to himself, we need to communicate the way they do on Star Trek. “To the rest of the world it was a fantasy. To me it was an objective." It was the moment the cellular phone was born.

It took a few more years to turn the dream into reality, but in April of 1973 Martin Cooper made the world’s first cellular phone call on his prized invention, the Motorola Dyna-Tac. With true Star Trek flair, Cooper rang his competitor, Joel Engel, chief of research at Bell Labs.

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Klannex Northmead Orange belt poet Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 131 My Mood:	Yes it's truly fascinating the way sci-fi influences popular culture and so science itself. Ion engines, solar sails, etc. The idea I find so appealing is that like reality, if you aint looking you aint gonna find it. http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/sci...sion-fact.html Science saying it's feasible in a way makes ot so, I bet all we need to connect is a simple pattern recognition circuit, oh for instance a Quantum computer.

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