Dream of the Open Channel

"The dream is to find the open channel." --- Richard Feynman
A blog using the scientific search for intelligent life on other worlds as a mental lens to ask every sort of interesting question.

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Friday, November 30, 2012

Advanced Civilizations in Decline - part 1

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If something can't go on forever, it won't.  Simple, right?  And yet, the notion that things will always continue to trend as the...
Monday, November 26, 2012

What Skepticism Isn't

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A woman came up to me and said, "I'd like to poison your mind, With wrong ideas that appeal to you, Though I am not unkind....
Friday, November 23, 2012

Searching for Bracewell Probes - part 1

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Ronald Bracewell Bracewell Probes were first discussed by Ronald Bracewell in a 1960 Nature paper. The basic idea is send robotic probe...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Speculation - the only way to fly

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Ronald Bracewell Here is another speculation, but probably not very original. In fact, it's a variation on the 1960 concept of a ...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Stories, Conjectures, Evidence and Proof

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OK, we need to clear a few things up here.  People throw around words like "evidence" or "proof" a mite too loosel...
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