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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: We have been sending electromagnetic radiation out for only a short period, and even now are increasing the efficiency of our usage - beams vs broadcasts, etc. It could be that other technological species have gone even further along this route, and it is therefore almost impossible to "eavesdrop" upon them.
I forget who mentioned it a good while ago, but someone made a tremendous point: We've been broadcasting in the clear for a few decades, but our communications have since mostly been encrypted.
Once you bring in encryption, there is no discernable pattern. It all looks like random noise. Which is the intent.
If alien civilizations have been encrypting their communications (and there's few reasons to think they would not), analyzing whatever our radio-telescopes are picking up ain't gonna reveal anything.
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Quote: If alien civilizations have been encrypting their communications (and there's few reasons to think they would not), analyzing whatever our radio-telescopes are picking up ain't gonna reveal anything.
I am wondering whether you're making the assumption that radio telescopes receive the content of alien broadcasts, such as in the movie "Contact." Maybe they do. I myself am not a radio astronomer so I am not an expert in such things.
But even with encrypted transmissions you can still look at the spectrum and power spectrum of such emissions. If there is a lot of power in a small frequency range then that may be indicative of something. I mean, okay, spread spectrum is also in use, but only certain blocks of the EM spectrum are in use for communications/broadcasting, spread or not.
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Additionally, if the transmission is in binary (1 bit/time period), one will see that all data are multiples of a certain basic size (e.g. 00111010000... has blocks of lengths 2, 3, 1, 1, 4, ... bits). This is true even if the data are encrypted.
Other forms of encoding also have their characteristic patterns which can show that a message is being transmitted, even if we cannot read the message.
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Greetngs Kind Regards
I communicated w/ Dr. Loeb only recently. He was kind enough to reply. He ends his e-mails w/ a nice portrait link below. On his theories re/ alien visitors I replied w/ that below but did not receive reply.
Abraham-Avi-Loeb.png[^]
Kind Distinguished Sir :
Thank You for your informative reply. At the risk of taking advantage of your kind generosity w/ ignorant fools such as myself way I please inquire your appraisal of even put forward the notion namely a race one million years advanced would not need a billion years to travel the great distances but can do so as easily as we w/ our crude technology travel across the globe.
PS I am impressed by the drawing. May I inquire the artist. Is it a self portrait.
Thank You Kindly
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Heh... they're probably seeking 'absolute truths'.
Your sequence reminds me of Rogue Trader where the ABC options of encountering a ship can be very similar.
I think to assume advanced beings haven't overcome what seems to be nature's fight/flight basic instinct is... an assumption.
For one, maybe they've never encountered anything that can digest or shoot them. Maybe they've never shot each other? I'd put that as pretty remote, but...
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Brian C Hart wrote: I agree with Harvard professor, Avi Loeb[^]
However he is far from an unbiased observer.
Astronomer Avi Loeb Says Aliens Have Visited, and He's Not Kidding | Scientific American[^]
Brian C Hart wrote: I think aliens are out there. And I think they used the Sun as a "gravity assist" vs. the center of the Galaxy
The first part however is far different than the second part.
The first presumes that one just does some hypothesizing based on some very, very large numbers. So with 200 billion trillion stars it would seem likely that there is at least some microbes out there.
The second part however requires that those aliens are doing a lot with science and technology for which there is no evidence.
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Hello Folks,
I wanted to do a non scientific "show of hands" so to speak...totally optional to participate, of course 
Curious, what music playlist(s) help you get "in the zone" when you're coding or programming?
What's your personal opinion, does listening to certain music help you get in the zone / write code faster / do complex systems and software engineering better?
Do you personally think there is any merit to those studies, such as this one[^], this one[^], and this one[^], that seem to indicate in the affirmative?
Or what about this Reddit user's post[^] where he says music does NOT help?
Is it all just up to the beholder, or is there a real effect?
OKAY...GO!
Regards,
Brian Hart
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Yes for Physics and Calculus it was Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here.
If you can't find time to do it right the first time, how are you going to find time to do it again?
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I just replied just a few minutes ago to your Bach thread saying I'm in the "no music" camp. Music distracts me. I might tolerate music without any singing when I'm coding. But music with actual lyrics is absolutely out of the question.
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same as 
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I like progressive and trance when I code. It helps me stay focused for long periods.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Progressive house, I assume? Progressive rock wouldn't focus me at all: I'd end up listening instead of coding.
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It depends, Electronic music of all kind and some 80's rock.
80's rock is reassuring, a known variable in my mental state.
For example today :
Boards Of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Above & Beyond : Acoustic at the Hollywood Bowl.
Plastikman : Musik
Dubstar : Goodbye.
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If I am learning... nothing.
If I am "just" working... yes.
Mainly no singing, about the type it might be electronic, it might be epic, it might be chill out, it might be white noise... It depends on the day and the mood.
M.D.V. 
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Brian C Hart wrote: Do you personally think there is any merit to those studies, such as this one[^], this one[^], and this one[^], that seem to indicate in the affirmative?
Interestingly enough, not for coding. But, certain types of music can get me in the zone for working out. Then again, I don't really listen to music when coding as I want to "hear" my mind think. Working out is the exact opposite where music is a necessity.
Keep in mind I didn't click your links, but the mind works in associations with everything. Music may be one catalyst but associations are the root cause. If someone associated eating chocolate cake with coding then that would get them in the zone. So any study that simply looks at music alone is missing the actual picture.
Now, music can be a powerful association of course. A very powerful one, for reasons that would totally derail this chat. But the root is associations so the point I'm stressing here is they need to see the whole picture.
Jeremy Falcon
modified yesterday.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: someone associated eating chocolate cake with coding
Mmmm...Donuts.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Mainly classical or stuff with no words to distract me. I do like video game soundtracks as they usually have some kind of motivating quality in them.
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Ever since I began programming in the 80s I have listened to the Smiths primarily. Today, I had Ramones and the Clash playing as well.
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Listening to music helps when I am in the mood. I listen to music 1 hour per day.
But dealing with complex bugs or writing complex code dealing with different libraries or subsystems, I prefer not to listen to music as I need the full concentration.
modified yesterday.
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I typically code without music. If I do listen music there can't be lyrics that are pronounced enough for me to want to listen to them because it gets distracting.
So when I'm creating I tend to stick to jazzy drum and bass electronic music from the 90s and early aughts because it's simultaneously soothing and motivating. If I'm really in the zone already I might put on some breakcore.
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This doesn't happen on CodeProject? (yay us)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: This doesn't happen on CodeProject?
It doesn't happen on CP and I'm really glad.
It's a very strange feature that some have implemented (before they even understand how it should be used).
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