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Bilirubin
Feb 16, 2014

The sanctioned action is to CHUG


lol Teilhard de Chardin again

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The Demilich
Apr 9, 2020

The First Rites of Men Were Mortuary, the First Altars Tombs.



Wheeee posted:

radar wearing a camo hat holding an assault rifle 15 and saying don’t mess with zeta reticuli

I mean I'll paint this in oils.
Seriously.

Wheeee posted:

except i have absolutely no energy due to the incredible powers of depression brain

someone write some sick scripts i can steal and take credit for

But same so give me some time.

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Wheeee posted:

i need to start a podcast

Call it Radar Love

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"

Bilirubin posted:

lol Teilhard de Chardin again

lmao came here to say this

Notorious R.I.M.
Jan 27, 2004

up to my ass in alligators

Bideo James posted:

hello ufo thread

consciousness is real and will one day be measured and seen by instruments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere

life is the reason consciousness exists (its a byproduct) and we could probably see planets light up like a light with the right tools

Every conscious being is capable of imagining a universe within the one they are in. its recursive retrospection

Still too narrow. Minds as we think of them are simply polished, highly reflective mirrors. Their experience is represented by what they are reflecting. Many things are mirrors, what is their experience? Where does one mind end and another one begin? The room you are in reflects sound. Does it have an experience? How many different minds are inside of "you" experiencing something right now?

pissinthewind
Nov 11, 2021

i have one personality: absolute loving moron

Bilirubin
Feb 16, 2014

The sanctioned action is to CHUG


pissinthewind posted:

i have one personality: absolute loving moron

That is the rest state of the universal consciousness

Notorious R.I.M.
Jan 27, 2004

up to my ass in alligators

Bilirubin posted:

That is the rest state of the universal consciousness

I have tuned into the background universal consciousness and I hear its message. It says, "buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh"

Zoobtro
Aug 22, 2003

Got miself a nice little earner, isn't it

Perry Mason Jar posted:

There's a Grey on stage with Mary J Blige for the SB halftime. Stay woke

Glad I'm not the only one who saw this

The Demilich
Apr 9, 2020

The First Rites of Men Were Mortuary, the First Altars Tombs.



Noosphere? Film of logos envoloping the earth?

Lots of fancy words when you can just say "yeah I post on the internet". That's what our physical iteration of the noosphere is after all.

Funny enough 40k dipped into it like they do everything else:
The Noosphere is a cybernetic information and communication technology system developed by the Mechanicum during the closing years of the Great Crusade in the late 30th Millennium.

Bilirubin posted:

That is the rest state of the universal consciousness

The blind idiot god agrees.

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

here's some of that pure uncut poo poo
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/st6d2l/followed_lues_breadcrumbs_to_find_the_message_in/
https://github.com/noncoding3torus/noncoding3torus

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"

Zoobtro posted:

Glad I'm not the only one who saw this

The stage was trailer park homes. The entire set was a NOPE ad. Everything's an ad these days though it's still pretty astonishing how much promotion the movie got during the Super Bowl.

The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

:psyop::tinylue::psyop:

global tetrahedron
Jun 24, 2009


came here to post this, can't say i follow much of it but it's very entertaining

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005



Neat, they gave a computer apophenia.

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva


LIVE, UFO MAN

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

man why these live :tinylue:s gotta come on so late. I wanna throw it up during the workday and let lue distract me from the banality

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012


Awww yeah straight into my veins

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

The Demilich posted:

The blind idiot god agrees.

*nods sagely*

endocriminologist
May 17, 2021

SUFFERINGLOVER:press send + soul + earth lol
inncntsoul:ok

(inncntsoul has left the game)

ARCHON_MASTER:lol
MAMMON69:lol
the false vacuum catastrophe is a proposed event that would happen if the universal consciousness got even dumber, perhaps by way of bimbofication

Bob Socko
Feb 20, 2001


Huh. I guess my first thought would be to check the rest of the genome to see if that pattern repeats, because if it does, well . . . that might just be how DNA works?

Objurium
Aug 8, 2009

Also been struggling with wanting to do a pod of some kind but feeling like most things in the space have been done before, although I think some of the cutting edge neurological and consciousness adjacent research angles are underrepresented. Very cool to see Anil Seth pop up in that article about cognitive human interface stuff, for example!

I'd be down to help or collab on script writing / research / whatever though.

WEH
Feb 22, 2009

report from the 1950s of a ufo dripping metal

NUFORC posted:

I immediately noticed that there was an extra "star" in the constellation Pleiades, slightly brighter than its very dim stars. As we walked back and forth between the sand bars, going steadily toward town, past it, and then back to Washington St., this extra star got brighter and brighter, gradually becoming a 4th, 3rd, 2nd, then 1st, 0+ magnitude "star". On our return to Washington Street, we stopped at the railroad bridge, at approximately 2:00 AM (I looked at my watch repeatedly) July 3rd and this "star" was then as bright as a 200 watt light bulb. 200 W bulbs existed then, and I was often in a building owned by my family that used them. It then began dripping what appeared to be a silvery liquid metal, like a foundry pouring molten lead.

The "star" took off over Henderson Point i e to the NorthEast, at extremely high speed, completely silent, leaving 2 red-orange glowing trails in the sky , which remained visible for over 30 minutes. I estimate the speed at thousands of miles per hour. I have no idea of the altitude, as I thought initially thought it a star, but it was obviously in the atmosphere. I never felt fear of any kind, although my companion was very scared. There was no missing time or any strange after effects.

Because of the the length of this event, I remember it vividly, over 50 years later.

Failson
Sep 2, 2018
Fun Shoe
Everyone get on the Intergalactic Party Bus



https://www.menards.com/main/grocer...36408865&ipos=9

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

Failson posted:

Everyone get on the Intergalactic Party Bus



https://www.menards.com/main/grocer...36408865&ipos=9

We're not hosting an intergalactic kegger down here

Andy Pandy
Dec 11, 2007


Grimey Drawer
DNA computing and information storage is so effective that it seems like a natural progression for us.

You can store all the information produced by human beings in a few grams of DNA (it has a raw limit of around 1 exabyte/mm³) and it has a half life of about 500 years. If we do have information stored in our DNA, it would take millions of years to degrade even if we all dropped dead right now. You'd have to destroy the planet if you wanted to erase it.

If biological computers and storage are used by other lifeforms, it's not difficult to imagine seeding far-off planets with life that carries the sum total of your civilisation's knowledge, backups that could also provide a safe haven if some cosmic event wastes your home planet. Even if the seeded life evolved to became aware of their origins, there's not much they could do about it. You can imagine they'd be pretty bummed to find out that they are simply storage media for some inscrutable lifeform elsewhere that may have disappeared eons ago, or even worse, something that has already arrived.

If DNA computers are readily used by visiting probes and craft, they might notice that some people and animals occasionally disappear in strange circumstances and are mutilated or altered in strange ways, as a post-biological civilisation may need a steady supply of DNA. Not much, but enough to be noticed over time.

I really enjoy the different viewpoints in this thread and would definitely listen and/or lend a hand to a podcast. Love and light my friends!

I Miss Snausages
Mar 8, 2005
Volvorific!
Been doing some hemi-sync and had my first experience of seeing figures and voices. They told me that the right group to inherit earth were the Neanderthals. They were more thoughtful, and could communicate with “them” because their brain was structured differently.

I’m gonna stop playing with those :filez: for a while now I think. Whatever was there didn’t seem happy.

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


that just isn't how dna works lol

sequences aren't conserved unless they have functional value, they just randomly mutate in that case. if you tried to store information inside a species, yes it might last millions of years, with potentially high corruption rates even in the best case scenario, or maybe twenty years after you left the species goes through a bottleneck event where the only survivors are the ones who (randomly) had those biologically useless sequences snipped off and therefore required less food for their cells to replicate.

you could, maybe, engineer your data structure such that your data under biological circumstances encodes useful proteins or serves a structural purpose that will be conserved, while under technological circumstances it could be read as a galactic encyclopedia or peanutty goatse jpg or whatever. but even then evolution will smear away bits and pieces over time as slight variations on the protein prove to be more useful in certain circumstances, and the tension between "this has to be useful to remain" and "this corresponds to an artificial encoding" would make designing a consistent data structure so incredibly difficult as to make the whole project a bit silly. you'd be better off just chemically preserving your dna copy of the info and burying it in a vault than engineering a species for storage. if you were to be inserting this species into an existing ecosystem with established motifs for how life accomplishes particular tasks, and you didn't want the species to be blindingly obviously a transplant, the task would be even more orders of magnitude harder.

dna computers for artificial purposes do make a lot of sense as a technology for a highly advanced civilization. making those dna computers also be fully functional living organisms might even make sense as long as they are still under your control and you can just make backups of the info. but sticking your info into bacteria, or trees, or apes, and then dumping them in the wild? it's a fun sci fi idea but it would not work

The Demilich
Apr 9, 2020

The First Rites of Men Were Mortuary, the First Altars Tombs.



I'm still angry Neanderthalensis is gone.

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

Toupee Groupie posted:

Been doing some hemi-sync and had my first experience of seeing figures and voices. They told me that the right group to inherit earth were the Neanderthals. They were more thoughtful, and could communicate with “them” because their brain was structured differently.

I’m gonna stop playing with those :filez: for a while now I think. Whatever was there didn’t seem happy.

how far in were you, just out of curiosity

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

also gently caress you drunk alien dads for telling us the wrong son died

that's cliche as gently caress

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


The Demilich posted:

I'm still angry Neanderthalensis is gone.

good news! there's still a significant fraction of neanderthal DNA in modern humanity

bad news! it's mostly in white people

goochtit
Nov 2, 2021



Toupee Groupie posted:

Been doing some hemi-sync and had my first experience of seeing figures and voices. They told me that the right group to inherit earth were the Neanderthals. They were more thoughtful, and could communicate with “them” because their brain was structured differently.
:haibrow: they were drat strong too

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

also gently caress you drunk alien dads for telling us the wrong son died

that's cliche as gently caress
lol if being cast of out of Eden is a metaphor for being the only Homo species that's bad at communicating with Entities

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


I made a grey alien in illustrator called j'hooti because it's just a hootin' jug with X X X across it w/ a hat and it was funny, but trying to draw over a gradient made the file crash and now it's just gone so vOv i give up for now but i charge someone itt to make it

goochtit
Nov 2, 2021



The podcast should be whoever has the sexiest voice just reading down the thread

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


pay me to ramble for two and a half hours about my dumb rear end beliefs please

Trainee PornStar
Jul 20, 2006

I'm just an inbetweener
This thread makes me think of this from back when I was a young'un.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDOGh8bqMR4

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Neanderthals were psychic empaths. Homo sapiens is a freak mutation with no psi and almost no empathy, our ability to murder and torture with little compunction was our competitive advantage. The lab techs only check in every 25,000 years and they've just opened the door to find their fungus sample has escaped the petri dish and the whole room is covered in mushrooms made of poo poo.

Trainee PornStar
Jul 20, 2006

I'm just an inbetweener

Slavvy posted:

Neanderthals were psychic empaths. Homo sapiens is a freak mutation with no psi and almost no empathy, our ability to murder and torture with little compunction was our competitive advantage. The lab techs only check in every 25,000 years and they've just opened the door to find their fungus sample has escaped the petri dish and the whole room is covered in mushrooms made of poo poo.

I'm pretty sure my cat has no 'psi' & he's a murderous little bastard too.

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SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
if you can do it with someone and have a kid who can have kids then you're in the same species

this fact is needed to examine the Homo complex

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