Back when I was on Facebook it was often incorporated into people's art -- this was around the time Joy Division released a greatest hits album. I suspect many people went on a Wikipedia wander and came to the same inspiration after listening to "Unknown Pleasures".
What I will do is give you a genuine reply: I listened to a few tracks from their latest album, but when I posted this I had forgotten they had that album out.
I'd actually completely forgotten I made this post until I noticed my karma had jumped for some reason -- sometimes I don't grok why people like one link but not another, and I try to just focus on surfacing interesting stuff.
And as I said on another nym recently:
I might lack things like tact, diplomacy, and deodorant.
But I think if someone had a perfect history of me, from that pollyannyish little twelve year old on Gamefaqs to the man in the corner with his back to the wall like Matt Damon, they’d respect that when I made mistakes, I was operating with imperfect information, a limited budget, and, at times, behind enemy lines.
> In 2012, on the 35th anniversary of the Wow! signal, the Arecibo Observatory was said to have beamed a digital stream towards Hipparcos 34511, 33277, and 43587.[45] The transmission consisted of approximately 10,000 Twitter messages solicited for the purpose by the National Geographic Channel, bearing the hashtag "#ChasingUFOs" (a promotion for one of the channel's TV series).[46] The sponsor also included a series of video vignettes featuring verbal messages from various celebrities.
What an inane, embarrassing "response", if the original was any attempt to communicate. (Sounds like it probably was not, but still...)
I'm hoping that any aliens that may or may not exist respect my contextual integrity and don't dox my Twitter.
But to be more serious: it is absolutely embarrassing we've gone from a world where a Russian and an American sit down at the science center to talk about their work and take questions to... this.
Keep in mind WHY collaborating on space was so big -- because the same technology that can put a man on the moon can put a missile anywhere on earth.
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What I will do is give you a genuine reply: I listened to a few tracks from their latest album, but when I posted this I had forgotten they had that album out.
I'd actually completely forgotten I made this post until I noticed my karma had jumped for some reason -- sometimes I don't grok why people like one link but not another, and I try to just focus on surfacing interesting stuff.
And as I said on another nym recently:
I might lack things like tact, diplomacy, and deodorant.
But I think if someone had a perfect history of me, from that pollyannyish little twelve year old on Gamefaqs to the man in the corner with his back to the wall like Matt Damon, they’d respect that when I made mistakes, I was operating with imperfect information, a limited budget, and, at times, behind enemy lines.
Asked differently, if I looked at this signal in an oscilloscope, would it be a perfect sine wave at the hydrogen line frequency?
That's got to be an alien transmitting that.
I'm reminded of the exciting signal at Parkes Observatory that turned out to be the microwave oven making an astronomers lunch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peryton_(astronomy)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-05/scientists-discover-s...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/05/microwave-ov...
If all the modern sophisticated alien signal has detected zero then we really have to stop obsessing about the wow signal from 1977.
> In 2012, on the 35th anniversary of the Wow! signal, the Arecibo Observatory was said to have beamed a digital stream towards Hipparcos 34511, 33277, and 43587.[45] The transmission consisted of approximately 10,000 Twitter messages solicited for the purpose by the National Geographic Channel, bearing the hashtag "#ChasingUFOs" (a promotion for one of the channel's TV series).[46] The sponsor also included a series of video vignettes featuring verbal messages from various celebrities.
What an inane, embarrassing "response", if the original was any attempt to communicate. (Sounds like it probably was not, but still...)
But to be more serious: it is absolutely embarrassing we've gone from a world where a Russian and an American sit down at the science center to talk about their work and take questions to... this.
Keep in mind WHY collaborating on space was so big -- because the same technology that can put a man on the moon can put a missile anywhere on earth.