RE: nft going into space, kitclout tonguesout meets aliens

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I always thought it was odd smart people would send a tiny speck of humanity off in some random direction hoping for it to be found someday, when we've already travelled 116 light-years in all directions with those fancy schmancy radio waves of ours.



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well, yes, but those radio waves would basically come through as noise. i mean, they would recognize patterns to it of course the same way we look for sounds coming from outer space having patterns to try to distinguish random junk from possible ET activity.. but there would be no context to it.

look at the https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/ - Voyager Golden Record. it's got samples of all that same stuff, but curated, like a nice hive community lol

now, this nft project is kinda doing the same thing as the previous stuff, except there's never really direct "beaming" of nft data out into space. if it's part of a website, where you're getting the data via satellite, there's all sorts of encryption methods, it's in HTTP protocol (protocol protocol, i know, "ATM machine", it hurts me too but it feels like it's more necessary with HTTP for some reason?), etc. here we're literally just beaming the nfts individually which while i'm not going to speak for the specific technical details (it's probably still not as tight as i would like for it to be), they're at least being sent one-by-one. though for the purposes of the project there won't be any one of these nfts that is given a certificate featuring a time of launch ahead of any others, we're considering all of these nfts going into space at the same time.

i hope at some point these nfts might actually be part of a craft that goes on a mission, but unfortunately i don't think we really DO that much anymore sadly :(

one of the thoughts i had early on that i forgot to touch on in my post was that- what if these aliens use blockchain technology for their communication, and so these nfts and other blockchain-specific data could be the first of the data we send into space that they would have the immediate capability of decoding and reading.

it's a silly thought, i think, but i guess you never know?

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But they're aliens. They have better receivers than us. Right?

Can you imagine some distant society invents television and instead of getting that hissing black and white snow stuff, they get us? Trippy. It could happen.

Sometimes my work gets beamed to space, but I hate using satellite internet. Starlink solves most of those problems though.

Space is awesome though. Ever play Kerbal Space Program? I kick ass at that game.

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isn't that the "program" that just lets you have failed moon landings over and over? LOL

and yeah one would think they have better receivers. certainly if they're able to travel the distances required to get anywhere near us- and to not have been seen. (unless you're one of THOSE people.. lol)

i'm really interested in the physics. like, i used to read a lot of theoretical physics books in high school. alongside the carl sagan stuff. like how can we come up with a single set of equations that unifies all of the known forces? what is dark matter/energy? these things keep me awake at night.

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Yeah. I think most fail at that game. Teaches you basic and some advanced orbital mechanics, and a lot of other things. Basic simulation but it's accurate and gets the point across. I enjoy it. Can watch a SpaceX launch and know exactly what's going on.

Anton Petrov, Isaac Arthur, Scott Manley, Event Horizon, Everyday Astronaut; all good Youtube personalities to follow if you like this stuff.

Even when I was a kid I'd think about space. Figured out stars are just Suns with planets around them like here, long before I was provided information proving it's true. It's unfortunate some out there in internet land think space is a hoax and all that. Slows progress.

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LOL WHAT there is no way there are people who think space is a hoax. do you mean flat earthers?

and when i first read that list of names i thought i read Isaac Asimov and i was like- youtube personality? ahaha

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There are people who think rockets are holograms. There are people that think rockets should go straight up and since they don't, they must be just firing them off in the ocean, for show. It is ridiculous.

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hey.. those are people you should totally ignore and never listen to anything they say

it's okay

no one will judge you for it, trust me

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I pay attention, for entertainment purposes. In general, I don't shy away from things I'd disagree with. Like to know what makes people tick. And it's not much, sometimes.

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