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I can see I'm talkin' to the wrong audience! ;) :) Cheers

SETI is really about returning knowledge of communication systems behaviours and its design for astronomical scales. The notion its about chasing ETIs, is for gullible Holy Grail hunters.

On the contrary, the criteria around reception distances of RF sytems, has been known since RF comms has been around. Extracting a hypothetical RF pattern from the noise background, becomes the key limitation for a potential ETI enthusiast .. apart from hypothetising what such an ETI signal...

Thanks for that! :) The NASA Voyager site (FAQs) says: 'Even if science data won't likely be collected after 2025, engineering data could continue to be returned for several more years. The two Voyager spacecraft could remain in the range of the Deep Space Network {DSN} through about 2036...

Interesting graphic showing Voyager 1's distance relative to nearby stars over time (from Wiki): Not sure about how long the communications link will remain viable, though .. Does anyone have any updates on this aspect? PS: I guess the RTG's lifetime will constrain the achievable comms...

Yet we can see that you're offering 'the ability of abstract thinking' as the primary demonstration of us stepping outside of our own minds????? Do you not see that as being nonsensical? What is doing the 'thinking' there, then? One cannot demonstrate mind independence (or 'stepping outside of...

As an aside: Interestingly, I can't find where that's actually been measured(?) As at Oct 2020, the shortest time interval measured appears to be 247 zeptoseconds, (where 1 zeptosecond = 10^-21 seconds), which is the travel time of a photon across a hydrogen molecule. Needless to say, this...

Many scientists also believe in a mind independent reality .. and you'll also find that they know the belief basis there, is not an objectively justifiable one for making claims about illusions.

Agreed .. (although my only original intent was to challenge the notion that time is an illusion). If it helps, (and out of respect for your inputs), I might also add that I think the source of any surprises there, is likely to be the notion that time exists independently from our models and...

Ok .. (understood) .. but that change makes no difference, unfortunately. So the question becomes: 'When a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it - does it really make a sound?' The answer is: Of course it does .. because what we mean by a tree, doing what we mean by falls in a...

What you mean by 'potatoes', 'mass', 'weight' (and everything else you use to describe what you mean there), is though .. There is no evidence supporting mind independence about any of that. (Unless you choose to simply believe in mind independence).

If no-one is there, then there is no-one there to ask that question now, is there? Or have you just, conveniently, completely ignored that person the we can all see is present in that scenario, for some reason? Its a hypothetical for goodness sake! Think about it: what is doing the hypothesing...

I'll try and make this my last post on 'time is an illusion' .. its an important issue to be dealt with. My own stance, (FWIW), is that I actually agree with most of the statements in the supporting references you've posted because there is clear objective evidence supporting them, yet I...

Hmm .. ok .. guess we'll find out. 'Now' is also reference to a particular time slice, (ie: the present), so if time is an illusion, so is the 'now' .. 'Time is an illusion' depends more on how illusions are distinguished .. @eleos1954 has no hope of doing that when it comes to time, other...

Defining 'an event', in practical terms, requires ignoring some finite interval of time, for the sake of achieving a practical outcome. Impulse events are a special case in Physics and there is a minimum limit to their duration, below which, such events are not physically possible, (see...

I'd like to see you convince anyone that time is an illusion .. namely because in order for you to do that, you'd have to demonstrate that time is a misinterpreted perception shared by all humans (because that's what 'illusion' means). Unless you uniquely posses some kind of alien mindset...

.. and if the Jupiter/Shoemaker-Levy 9 image displays a very rough analogue of spaghettification, then an observation of spaghettification someplace, isn't a unique criterion for inferring the presence of a stellar mass black hole. Therefore, it beats me why one would expect the chance...

Wow .. that's a new one .. haven't heard that as being the criteria before 'buying it'(!?)

One's belief in God produces nothing of relevance in the proper astronomical investigation of orbiting bodies. The admission of beliefs, when investigating the unknown, is detrimental to the integrity of the scientific method (eg: Galileo's persecution). The investigation of the formation of...

Thanks for your OP @AlexB23. Its refreshing to actually see enthusiasm for a science focus around these forums. Let's not accidentally step over praising the hard work done by the minds of astronomers and the teams of dedicated scientists and engineers who spent years developing the Magellan...