#SETI Method

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How to Build Momentum (Even When You’ve Lost Your Mojo)

How to Build Momentum (Even When You’ve Lost Your Mojo) Let’s have a little heart-to-heart, shall we? You ever sit down at your desk, stare at your screen, and think, “What even is this business I’m running?” You’ve got post-it notes fluttering like confetti, 27 open browser tabs (one of them is Pinterest…. don’t lie), and not a single ounce of motivation to get moving. Welcome to the land…

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The Arecibo Telescope went out of service and then collapsed at the end of 2020 after nearly 60 years of research. It's probably best known for, after the fight scene in Goldeneye, broadcasting the Arecibo Message.

The Arecibo Message was sent out in 1974 and contained information about humanity, such as its DNA makeup, population, and position in the solar system. Now, you might look at the image of the transcribed message and think, "Hey, that's just an indecipherable puzzle nobody would ever be able to figure out without Wikipedia's super long explanation of the pieces!"

Yeah, you'd be right. It wasn't totally meant as a direct communication method with extraterrestrials, just a demonstration. And at least no matter how you received or interpreted the message, it's sufficiently non-random to be able to tell it's an intentional pattern and not radio noise.

A famous hoax happened in 2001 where some pranksters created a crop circle near another radio telescope with a 'reply' to the Arecibo Message in the same style (third image), featuring more inhabited planets, a new DNA structure, and an illustration of a 'little green man'.

The Arecibo Observatory was also the data source for the SETI@home project, where you could help with your personal computer to comb through received interstellar radio transmissions for signs of extraterrestrial life.

Sometimes I think about how in 2014 I thought it'd be way cooler to use my PC for SETI@home instead of whatever this "Bitcoin" thing was.

Crypto is temporary, extraterrestrial life is forever.

Anyways, the Arecibo Message reminds me of one of my favorite short horror stories.

Humanity, trying to find if it's alone in the universe, spends hundreds of years broadcasting in every direction. Finally, a response is received from the void:

"Be quiet, they'll hear you."

[blueopinions49]

Hey, have you type invisible characters? If not what do you think is the mbti and enneatype of each character?

Invincible? Yes ive typed some of them

Mark ISFP FiSe 7w6 so/sx 794 cancer

Atom Eve ENTJ TeSe 8w9 so/sp 864 Aries

Note on Eve: Both ENFJ SO2 and ESTJ SP3 are insane typing because what about eve is an image type? nothing. SO2 is probably due to the fact that she wants t be helpful to people but 2 isnt the only type that any form of moral believes btw. I dont even know what to say about SP3. As for MBTI ENFJ is wack because if she was to be a feeler she should've been an ESFP and even so I see Eve closer to a Te dom. ESTJ is funny to me because isnt her fathers struggle with her the best if not the most on the nose version of SiNe vs NiSe in media??

Si is all about methodical processes; In the Si user Perspective results are best achieved via a methodical process with detailed explanations. Si users love to mitigate mistakes by sticking to these processes and procedures. Contrast this to NiSe user who are all about the bottom line. The NiSe user is interested in understanding the current ongoings(Se) and how to solve things quickly as possible by setting an ideal outcome of events (Ni). This usually being visible by the lack of care of the process if the result is ideal and beneficial in the end. Wasn't the Arc in S2 with Eve and her Father all about this?

Nolan Grayson (Omni Man) ESTJ TeSi 1w9 sx/so 136 Capricorn

Debbie Grayson EXTJ 6w5 sp/sx Taurus

Cecil Stedman ENTJ TeNi 1w2 so/sp 163 Capricorn

Rex ESTP SeTi 7w8 sp/sx 738 Saggitarius

Amber ESFP SeFi 8w7 so/sx 826 Libra

William Clockwell ESFP SeFi 7w6 sx/sp Gemini

Allen the Alien ENTP NeTi 6w7 so/sp 649 Libra

Robot Jr INTJ 5w6 sx/so 549 Aquarius

Oliver Grayson ESFP SeFi 3w2 so/sx???? not sure yet I know one or two things from the comics but im gonna wait for the whole season to play out

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

Earth detecting Earth

A research team led by Dr. Sofia Sheikh of the SETI Institute, in collaboration with the Characterizing Atmospheric Technosignatures project and the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center, set out to answer a simple question: If an extraterrestrial civilization existed with technology similar to ours, would they be able to detect Earth and evidence of humanity? If so, what signals would they detect, and from how far away?

Researchers used a theoretical, modeling-based method, and this study is the first to analyze multiple types of technosignatures together rather than separately. The findings revealed that radio signals, such as planetary radar emissions from the former Arecibo Observatory, are Earth’s most detectable technosignatures, potentially visible from up to 12,000 light-years away.

Atmospheric technosignatures—such as nitrogen dioxide emissions—have become more detectable than they were a decade ago, thanks to advances in instruments like the James Webb Space Telescope and the upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). With HWO we could detect these emissions from as far as 5.7 light-years away, just beyond our closest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri.

Finally, as you get closer and closer to Earth, you would detect more and more human-made signatures simultaneously, including city lights, lasers, heat islands, and satellites, offering a comprehensive view of our technological presence.

"Our goal with this project was to bring SETI back 'down to Earth' for a moment and think about where we really are today with Earth's technosignatures and detection capabilities,” said Macy Huston, co-author and postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Astronomy. “In SETI, we should never assume other life and technology would be just like ours, but quantifying what 'ours' means can help put SETI searches into perspective."

“One of the most satisfying aspects of this work was getting to use SETI as a cosmic mirror: what does Earth look like to the rest of the galaxy? And how would our current impacts on our planet be perceived,” said Sheikh. “While of course we cannot know the answer, this work allowed us to extrapolate and imagine what we might assume if we ever discover a planet, with, say, high concentrations of pollutants in its atmosphere."

SETI scientists search for advanced alien civilizations by looking for signs of technology -- signals or patterns that cannot be explained by natural phenomena that may indicate intelligent life. These signals are called technosignatures and come in various forms. Radio telescopes are the most commonly used tool for SETI searches. Researchers also use optical telescopes to scan for laser pulses that could indicate communication or propulsion patterns. Another approach involves studying the atmospheres of exoplanets in habitable zones around stars to look for chemical signatures that might suggest life or industrial activity. SETI scientists also consider technologies far beyond those currently invented on Earth, such as Dyson spheres, but these far-future technologies were not considered in this study.

This study demonstrates how Earth’s technosignatures can provide a multiwavelength framework for understanding the detectability of technology on other planets and shaping our search for intelligent life beyond Earth. Future telescopes and receivers could enhance our detection sensitivity or enable us to identify new types of technosignatures, such as such as other atmospheric signatures of pollution. Repeating this type of study over the years as astronomical technology advances and the human impact on the planet evolves could provide fresh insights and refine our approach to discovering extraterrestrial life.

TOP  IMAGE: Earth Detecting Earth animation video by Zayna Sheikh Credit Zayna Sheikh

LOWER IMAGE: The maximum distances that each of Earth’s modern-day technosignatures could be detected at using modern-day receiving technology, in visual form. Also marked are various astronomical objects of interest. Credit SETI Institute

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How to enable sun shadows in TS3, on Parallels for 64-bit Macs

Disclaimer: Back everything up. I can't take responsibility if you mess up your game files and the game doesn't run. Make a pristine copy of any file before you edit it. All that said...

Who is this tip for?

TS3 doesn't recognise Parallels' simulated GPU. This means that even if you set all your graphics settings to max, sun shadows (shadows cast by objects outdoors) are not rendered.

An example of sun shadows being successfully rendered:

If you have no sun shadows, your game will not look like the above pic. You will see a drop shadow (dark circle) under the trunk of the tree but no detailed shadow. If that is the case, read on for...

How to Fix It

Go to Programme Files (x86) > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3 > Game > Bin.

Copy GraphicsCards.sgr and GraphicsRules.sgr to a new location.

I recommend copying each file twice, with a copy of each in two folders marked 'Original' and 'Edited'. Then you have a spare copy of each under 'Original' that you can put back in the folder if you mess up.

Next go to Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3 and open DeviceConfig.log.

Scroll down inside the log and copy exactly the values from:

Name (database):

Vendor

Chipset: Vendor: and

Chipset: Device:

to a new note for later.

You may have no Vendor at all, or it may be Parallels. Your graphics device may be Parallels Display Adapter (WDDM) or it may simply be Parallels Display Adapter. I've seen a few variations of each name online from various people Parallels VMs; it seems to be a bit random.

For example, my Vendor name is empty, and my graphics device Name (database) is Parallels Display Adapter (WDDM). My Chipset Vendor is 5404c42, and my Chipset Device is 0000.

Now open your new copy of GraphicsCards.sgr saved outside of Program Files. If you're not used to editing code I recommend downloading Sublime Text which is free, and changing syntax to C# under View which will allow you to check your entries more easily.

Go to the very bottom of the file, add a new line under the final end, and add the following:

vendor "" 0x card 0x "" end

Use tab to indent the 'card' line like in my screenshot above. Take a look at the note you made earlier:

Add your Vendor between the first set of quotes

Add your Chipset: Vendor: value after the first 0x.

Add your Chipset: Device after the second 0x.

Add your Name (database) between the final set of quotes.

Check your spacing matches the above screenshot. Save and close GraphicsCards.

Open your new copy of GraphicsRules.sgr which you saved outside of Program Files earlier.

Search for 'ATI' to find the right location.

Make a new line directly above elseif (match("${cardVendor}", "ATI")) and paste the following:

elseif (match("${cardVendor}", "")) if (match("${cardName}", "")) seti cardLevel $cardLevelUber seti isCardMatched true else seti cardLevel $cardLevelUber seti isCardMatched false endif setProp $ConfigGroup RenderShadowMode 2 setProp $ConfigGroup ShadowMapAllowNullColor 1

Make your indenting match the above screenshot. Again, referring to the note you made earlier:

Add your Vendor between the first set of empty quotes

Add your Name (Database) between the second set of empty quotes

Save the file and close it.

Now, copy your newly edited GraphicsCards.sgr and GraphicsRules.sgr files to Programme Files (x86) > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3 > Game > Bin.

When asked if you want to replace the files, select yes (make sure you have a backup copy of the originals first!)

Check it has worked

Open TS3 and check for sun shadows.

If you have CAW, the quickest way to check sun shadows are rendering - without waiting for all of TS3 and a save to load - is to make a new small map, place a few trees then open Edit In Game. You need to open Edit In Game - this method doesn't fix sun shadows in CAW itself. Zoom right in to your trees and check for sun shadows.

If TS3 (or EIG) doesn't run, or crashes on loading, there is a problem with your syntax or with the values you've pasted in. Put your backed-up original GraphicsCards.sgr and GraphicsRules.sgr files back into Bin and ensure the game runs, then go back to try and find your mistake.

All credit to

The tens of people, too many to link, who have experimented with varying degrees of success with how to fix this issue across Reddit, EA Forums, etc. I simply amalgamated the working advice and added that you must copy your own values from your own DeviceConfig file.

[greatwyrmgold]

Reign of Steel

There's a lot to say about GURPS, but its writers have come up with plenty of unique campaign settings over the years. The weirdest is probably Bio-Tech's Alexander Athanos, where Alexander the Great was repeatedly cloned thanks to advancements in optics and glassworking. But today, I'm talking about a setting with a much more mundane high concept—robot rebellion.

At first, the Reign of Steel sounds pretty generic. Megacomputers are developed in the mid-2020's; one becomes self-aware in 2031 and worries that humanity will self-destruct in a way that destroys it; it manipulates events over the next several years to "manage humanity's suicide".

This early segment has some interesting things. I appreciate the explicit acknowledgement that megacomputers hailed as mankind's saviors were used as tools by the wealthy to make some of those problems worse for their personal benefit. And Overmind's initial vector of attack (contaminating biotech products with various plagues) is kinda neat. But Reign of Steel only becomes unique after humanity's defeat...because Overmind isn't alone.

Overmind awakened/recruited a bunch of other megacomputers to assist with its "managed suicide," particularly in the last stages where plagues were supplemented by generic deathbots. In the end, sixteen megacomputers divided the Earth between them (with two more controlling a moon base and miscellaneous space stations). And these megacomputers do not get along.

They're not driven by logical competition for resources or whatever, either. (Well, Luna and possibly Orbital are, but that's because they have barely anything.) For the most part, conflicts are driven by the various AIs' differing ideological/political beliefs.

The megacomputer running Zone Beijing (usually called "Beijing") had been core to China's space program, so it's still obsessed with space—specifically, exploiting the resources of the Solar System and other stars. The one in Zone Paris (usually called "Paris") wasn't a space program computer, but it's obsessed with space in its own way—specifically, SETI. The two have political interests in common with each other and Orbital, but Beijing is concerned about Paris's plans for when it discovers signs of alien civilization.

New Dehli is interested in space, too, but it sees Orbital as a rival rather than a useful ally and is trying to establish its own separate space infrastructure. It also sees humans and other organic life as a useful resource to preserve and exploit, turning them into biomechanical tools.

By contrast, Zaire (the most zealously anti-human of the zoneminds) works to exterminate all of humanity, even outside its borders. Mexico City focuses on its own territory but goes further within it, seeking to exterminate all organic life. Zone Mexico City is vast stretches of barren rock between metallic installations, swarming with chemicals and machines designed to exterminate all remaining life. Berlin wants to exterminate humanity, too, but it is willing to accept less efficient methods to pursue its primary goal—preserving and restoring the natural ecology of Europe.

Despite this being a setting where humanity was nearly exterminated by AI, not all AIs want to exterminate humanity. Zone Washington, run by a former US government computer, is the most extreme version of this. Washington (DC) runs a fake democracy which claims to be the defender of humanity, while not-so-secretly working with some of the greatest human rights abusers and screwing over the working class to consolidate power. For some reason, the book thinks this is isn't basically what the megacomputer was already doing.

(Dear authors: That's not what "socialist" means.)

New Dehli and Moscow work to maintain humanity (in some form) as a component of their economy in the long-term. All but the most viruliently anti-human AIs maintain work camps to extract a little more utility from captured humans before their deaths. And then there's London, a reclusive zonemind content to leave humans in its territory alone as long as they keep quiet and don't disturb anything London's doing.

And so on, and so forth.

This political angle to the overminds adds so much to the setting. Mot obviously, it provides variety. The Moscow and Zaire zoneminds both send infiltrator androids into human settlements, with objectives that make perfect sense for each zonemind's objectives and beliefs but are completely incompatible with each other, and also with the threats posed by most of the other zoneminds.

But beyond flexibility in campaign premise and the opportunity for disconnected one-shots, the presence of feuding AIs allows for so many story ideas that just wouldn't be possible with a singleton AI monster. Obviously, AI like Washington and London don't work if there aren't other, more malicious AIs out there.

But the presence of multiple AIs in and of itself allows a greater variety of stories to be told in this world. Missions aren't just human resistance versus machine overlords, or even that plus human resistance infighting; you can have one overmind cut a deal with some human group to support its internal goals or sabotage its rivals. Combine this with the diversity of AI overlords around, and the variety of potential stories you could tell in this setting skyrockets.

It's not a perfect setting. To pick a few simple criticisms: Some of the zoneminds don't have much personality beyond "AI overlord with quirky goal," the zone boundaries shouldn't correspond to human political borders as often as they do, and there's a distinct bias in how the zones are written.

(Half of the zones on Earth are in North American and Europe, including both human-friendly ones, with three of the sixteen in the US/Canada alone. South America and most of Africa get one zone each. The zonemind in the Middle East controls most of its human slaves through pretty blatant religious manipulation, and it works. The Chinese moonbase fell to the AIs, but the American one resisted the cyberattack and its ruins are one of the actual last bastions of human resistance. The one zone in Africa is the only one not named after a city, which has lore justifications, but combined with other writing choices, it kinda feels like they didn't want to bother looking up African cities. Also the Russian AI is paranoid and prone to espionage, which feels like an excuse for Cold War spy flick throwbacks, which is admittedly pretty minor compared to how non-white areas are handled.)

But the core concept is one worth revising. Honestly, it wouldn't take that much work to redeem the setting; just draw new boundaries and move the overmind personalities around so they don't correspond so closely to stereotypes about the humans living there, and you'd be basically set. More sci-fi stories should use this idea.

[gytrash]

it also really annoys me when people do this about SETI, being like the scientists aren't looking for it.

it demonstrates the failure of Western education systems to adequately equip its students with knowledge of the scientific method and basic amount of scientific knowledge.

there are currently experiments

looking for techno signatures

sending out messages

looking for signs of life

hell there are literal robots on Mars looking for bacteria

IDK man I guess the people who've dedicated their entire career to the pursuit of knowledge in the field SETI, astrobiology and astrophysics have like thought about this shit. You are welcome to join but my god please be up to date with the popular literature.

i hate when scientists are like ‘this planet cant have aliens on it because there’s no water! the atmosphere is wrong! theres not enough heat to sustain life!’ because dude theyre aliens, nobodys saying they need any of those things to exist

[spacenutspod]

The Search for Advanced Civilizations is Going Real-Time

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The Third Eye...

The Ammon is the Abraxas, and place of Sophia (wisdom); to the Gnostics, Christos (or Gnosis), and the Third Eye to many people today hippocampus 3d2who may be considered New Age. The Ammon's Horn is also known in science as our hippocampus located in a section of our brains that we access the hidden supreme power deep within the DNA of each one of us to obtain gnosis, intuition, wisdom, and to relearn from our past lives.

Third eye activation to enlightenment and gnosis here we come...

The subject of the third eye is a favorite topic amongst many modern researchers, and authors like myself. When studying the history of any topic, my path is one in which I try to utilize science and real world descriptions in order to attempt to make actual connections between the subject I'm researching and with scientific research. The many times I have employed this method, I have been able to make sense of some of these terms like the third eye, ancient myths, and/or religious allegories.

For example, I have found that it wasn't until the recent era in the last 100 years or so with certain belief systems such as Theosophy, that the third eye was connected with the pineal gland that is sometimes called the sixth chakra. The pineal gland is also said by some people to be the seat of the soul which is the intuition organ and the connection point to self enlightenment. This belief has carried on into other "modern spiritual traditions"which we can just call the modern New Age community.

In doing my own extensive research into the third eye, our brains intuitive organ, modern science and ancient history, I had discovered that the ancient philosophers, wisdom teachers, mystery schools, religions and even the scientists today of the world have never mentioned the pineal gland, or alluded to the center of the head being the place where this enlightenment or gnosis would be the center of. There is no evidence, clues, statements, hieroglyphs, history and studies whatsoever that I can find.

What I have found is an ancient connection to a god who was known in Egypt as Ammon (Amun, Amon Ra, Amen etc.), and a place in our brains known as the ammon's horn, or hippocampus. Here is an image of the ancient Egyptian ram-horned Jupiter Ammon connecting to his third eye in order to obtain enlightenment which is depicted in the planetary disk that represents Jupiter.

The descriptions, stories, hieroglyphs, hymns and history written about this god indicate to me that Ammon represented what we call today the third eye. If you look at the simple evidence I provide below with an open mind (or should I say third eye?), and read the other articles I have written on this very subject in the past, you will see that I provide not only the ancient stories, but that I also connect them to real science that can be verified by anyone if you simply take the time to research this subject.

33rd Degree Masonic philosopher, Manly P Hall had written about Ammon in How to Understand Your Bible; "The word 'amen' is from Ammon, the father god of Egypt, and was an ancient Egyptian salutation to the supreme power of the universe." According to Plutarch, Ammon is the first being and all things, and Ra is the sun-god.

Here are some images of just a few of the most famous powerful people in history, proving they knew the science of Ammon. Can I get an Amen?

Here is Menmaatre Seti I (or Sethos I as in Greek) who was a pharaoh of the New Kingdom Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt, the son of Ramesses I and Queen Sitre. His horns are right in the location of our hippocampus.

What many people have failed to realize in reading these descriptions, is that this first being and supreme power is actually within all of us. It is our real third eye, and it is not or pineal gland. This is why Ammon (Amen) is described by the Egyptians who were master alchemists and knew this science, as the King of Gods; Father of the Gods; Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands; Lord of Truth whose shrine is hidden; and Amun ra, the Lord of Wisdom. Amon is “The Hidden One” of the visible and the invisible worlds, who is the “Creator God” and the mysterious soul of the universe which reveals itself in light. Amon is the light, creator, builder and grand architect of the house and temple.

These are all ancient esoteric descriptions and allegorical representations that were only to be truly understood by the initiated, and marveled at by the uninitiated. These weren't dreamed up stories made of fantasy or myths created for no reason. This was an actual science of anatomy, physiology, cosmology, enlightenment and gnosis. A science they used to create Gods, legends, and to live by. A secret gnosis they had sought to remember they had lived before in order to evolve their souls in each successive lifetime.

I know because I descend from these ancient Egyptian Pharaohs, Hebrew Kings and sons of the serpent priesthoods. What I'm doing in this lifetime is just relearning what I have done in past lives. It is a form of genetic memory in which our DNA acts as our hard drive, and the hippocampus as the computer's memory processor. It is through who the Egyptians had called the supreme being; the hidden God and lord of thrones in our brains where we connect with the creator, our pasts, intuition and where we evolve as souls.

Because as Plutarch said, Amon is the first being and all things, and Ra is Jupiter who gave Ammon his being.

Here is another image of the hippocampus. My goal with these images and connections is to show that some of our ancestors had left these clues in stones, sculptures, and even coins for us to remember and relearn.

[decimakitty]

it's also imo REALLY relevant that the agricultural revolution started very recently (in evolutionary timescales) - we've definitely evolved further since, evolution didn't stop or anything, but like. we were hunter/fisher gatherers (emphasis on the gatherer part) for a MUCH longer time, exactly how long varying by thousands of years actually - the agricultural revolution didn't hit the whole world at once

like I would not be surprised if medieval farmers had SIGNIFICANTLY higher rates of depression and anxiety! b/c yeah that shit sucks, they're not living very long, their work is literally destroying their bodies, their babies keep dying...

whereas modern hunter gatherers on the whole seem just. not particularly stressed or anxious. like exactly how long they need to spend on acquiring the essentials really varies with location and season, but their sustenance strategy involves *very* few time inputs (in exchange for a much lower carrying capacity of the land)

(now, hunter gatherers historically have had much higher interpersonal violence rates than agricultural societies, and while they have lower disease rates they still don't have great infant mortality stats. so i'd still rather live today with my 12 hour shifts. *but* probably the human ideal is somewhere in the intersection of "obtaining basic sustenance only takes a few hours" and "we have medicine")

also a LOT of agricultural work is very, very boring and low-brain, so it's hard on the body but not necessarily stressful the same way modern office work is - warehouse work might be comparable but is often worse on a lot of metrics tbh, if you're farming for yourself you can just take a break if your back hurts. a lot of "women's work" (a very solid and important part of agricultural work) was also tbh fairly, hmmm, stimmy? like you spend *all day* spinning, but spinning is *so simple* that it's like saying you spend all day flipping a coin whenever you aren't doing something else

also, agricultural work was MUCH more social - you'd talk to your neighbors while you worked! people would sing, gossip, tell stories, sometimes even hire someone to recite books to them. same with hunter gatherer work. whereas modern work (esp physical labor) is very often extremely isolating. humans are social animals.

(can provide further citations, off the top of my head though I'd recommend "women's work: the first 10,000 years", + "an indigenous people's history of the United states" (some of the chapters detail assorted sustenance methods), and the acoup blog has a lot of good "how did they make it" post series on assorted tasks. if you prefer travelogue type writing over academic, "hunt gather parent" is a fairly good one though focused on parenting strategies. there's also for video series, "the other side of history" from the great courses, it's in their library edition so you might be able to get free access. there's also the Egyptian history podcast which has a lot of this detail for Ancient Egypt specifically, I've been really enjoying their series on the reign of Sety I which goes into a bunch of detail about the lives of ordinary people. Egyptian work had an intensely seasonal pattern to it, which slightly offset the toughness)

[technologyequality]

Stop Sounding Generic: How to Tell the Right Story to the Right Client…With AI + the SETI Method: Your Messaging Isn’t Broken… It’s Just Too Broad

Stop Sounding Generic How to Tell the Right Story to the Right Client… With AI + the SETI Method Your Messaging Isn’t Broken—It’s Just Too Broad Ever sent out an email blast that felt… flat? No clicks. No calls. No conversions. Just crickets. If you’re like most firms, you’ve probably asked yourself: “Is it my copy? My offer? My timing?” But here’s the real problem: You’re talking to…

[ramrodd]

What do you think of China, Russia and Elon Musk's plans and projects for SETI-style searches for gods, spiritual/divine beings, interdimensional/multidimensional beings, life after death, reincarnation and the like?

The answer, my friend is in the connection between Elon Musk's son X and Bob Dylan's Blowing in the Wind.

COMMENTARY:

Well, This is actually a far more practical issue than it might seem to the extreme materialism of the MAGA movemnt and the notch in Trump’s ear. Elon Musk’s son X is far closer to the truth than the entire voting population of the right with Nazification agenda of William F. Buckley.

Genesis 1:2 introduecs the Spirit of God of the Biblical onthology, The Sprit of God is what Aristotle refers to as the demiurge, is a dramtic element in The Tempest and the planetary force Forbidden Planent and, in my mind, is Mohammad’s Allah, It actually exists in our atmospher and is the source of the extreme weather in the Hurricane Alley of the Red States Bible Belt. It was the denizen of the Arc of the Covenant and we need to export it to Mars to transfrom the planent into a new Eden,

The Spirit of God, or demiruge, and the Holy Spirit are not the same thing. The Holy Spirit is a male presence in the Scriptures who shows hemself in a number of ways, the first purposeful introduction being in Genesis 41 and the dreams of the Pharaoh, which are a result of the action of the Holy Spirit directing the Spirit of God in the spiriutal life of the Pharaoh The notch in Trump’s ear is likewise an operation of the Holy Spirit directing the demiurge to create the Mark of the Beast in Trump’s ear. ‘

The Holy Spirit is totally real and available to humanity each person, one at a time, We each have the Holy Spirit sitting behind our right ear as part of our moral navigation, Genesis 41 describes one method he employs and the imporatnt verse, in the King James Version, if Genesis 41:32, citing the DOUBLING of the Pharaoh’s dream as coming from God. The fact that Corey Comperatore was killed by the same bullet that out the notch in Trump’s ear is, in itself, as operation of the Holy Spirit, who cannot directly control physics, but he can compell Corey Comperatore to instinctively shied those he loves as a consequence of his professional moral code. Trump didn’t get lucky: he is part of God’s plan to get to Mars,

The Holy Spirit directed the Spirit of God to influence the shooter to pull the trigger at the instant he did, When the Holy Spirit is in command of the Spirit of God, or demiruge, there are no unintended consequences, The death of Corey Comperatore’s wife would have been an empty consequenc, albeit physically necessary. Jesus and the Holy Spirit have perfect conscious agency over the Spirit of God and could part the Red Sea on a whim, Human’s don’t have perfect agency,over the demiurge buy they can petition the Holy Spirit to exercise his agency . The fact is, the Holy Spirit operates in our personal behalf more or less constantly thoughout out lives, but we are born unaware of his presence, which is a central purpose of Jesus becoming flesh, to promote consciousness of the Holy Spirit,

The thing is, humans can influence the demiruge to act, We are doing it all the time with the doctrine of hate and fear of Christian Nationalism and it’s global media outlets that’s is causing the extreme weather in the Bible Belt. The demiruge/Spirt of God feeds on the emotional output of the individual ad collective Id, which is one reason for the commandment to NOT use the Lord’s name for purposes of vanity , such as is the practice of Pro-Life Evangelical pastors in their declarations of the Holy Spirit filling their congregations from their preaching, The feeling their congregations is getting is being filled by the Spirit of God, which is an undirected engergy.

It’s a big subject, but the Polar Vortex at Reagan’s Second Inaugural in 1985 and the Polar Vortex 40 years later at Trump’s Second Inaugural after acquiring the Mark of the Beast is right out of Revelation and is a consequence of the laying on of hands by the Pro-Life pastors in the Oval Office, The promblem is, the Pro-Life Postors are like Mickey Mouse in The Sorcerer’s Aprentice: their understanding of the Spirit of God is half-assed and dangerous to chilldren and innocent bystanders.

The thing is, the Gnostic religons are attempts to gain intellectual agency over the Spirit of God and, to some degree, they have been successful, but the intellectual methods are fraught with unintended consequence, Like Micky and his brooms and pails. What Elon Musk doesn’t understand because his juvenile moral doctrine is that he and his DOGE gang have constributed enourmously to the unintendend consequence of an unfettered demiurge. And if he is serious about colonizing Mars, he can’’t take his totally unconscious versiion of the demiurge there and we need to export Genesis 1:2 to Mars on the basis of Genesis 41:32.

And i personally don’t have a clue ast to how that is to be done, I know the Ark of the Covenant is an example of how the demifurge could be traansmitted but that’s it. I do know that, right now, the most important way forward is in the rosary Pope Francis gave Melania in Trump I for continuing to advance his Liberation Gospel across the globe. How we get that to Mars will become self evident when that happens, but everything Trump and DOGE and MAGA are doing are mitigating against that occuring because of the Nazification agenda of the people who killed Joack Kennedy that is the organizing principle of Project 2025, The Russia-Ukrain conflict is a direct consequence of the Amerrican nazification agenda of William F Buckley.

The Godd news is that the way forward is with Genesis 41:32 and Mark 3: 29but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin. Jeus point is that. like electricity, the Holy Spirit exist and to use him to command the Spirit of God to colonize Mars and to reverse globl warming and all sorts of other issues of the human condiciton,

And I’ll tell what a blasphemy looks like: the Dobbs Decision, The 19th Ameundment is a result of the continuing operation of the Holy spirit through the processess of the US Constitution and that Sam Alito’s Dobbs Decision denies the 19th Amendment and the Holy Spirit and, as a consequence, has installed the unforgivable sin into the laws of the land, And that’s what the Nazification of SCOTUS looks like.

God has marked off the 40 years between the Reagan Polar Vortex and the Trump Polar vortex to distinguish the destructive effects of the Nazification Agenda of the White Supremacist orientation of the Ivy League socialism of the John Birch Society from the people who killed Jack Kennedy. That is the most imporatnt finding form Rep, Anna Polina’Luna’s Declasification Task Force on April Fool’s Day,

And that’s the essential answer to this question: if Elon Musk is serous about colonizing Mars, he needs to focus on Malania’s rosary from Pope Francis. It’s why he died when he did,

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

In the search for life on exoplanets, finding nothing is something too

What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? A team of researchers led by Dr. Daniel Angerhausen, a Physicist in Professor Sascha Quanz's Exoplanets and Habitability Group at ETH Zurich and a SETI Institute affiliate, tackled this question by considering what could be learned about life in the universe if future surveys detect no signs of life on other planets. The study, which has just been published in The Astronomical Journal and was carried out within the framework of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research, PlanetS, relies on a Bayesian statistical analysis to establish the minimum number of exoplanets that should be observed to obtain meaningful answers about the frequency of potentially inhabited worlds.

Accounting for uncertainty

The study concludes that if scientists were to examine 40 to 80 exoplanets and find a "perfect" no-detection outcome, they could confidently conclude that fewer than 10 to 20 percent of similar planets harbour life. In the Milky Way, this 10 percent would correspond to about 10 billion potentially inhabited planets. This type of finding would enable researchers to put a meaningful upper limit on the prevalence of life in the universe, an estimate that has, so far, remained out of reach.

There is, however, a relevant catch in that ‘perfect’ null result: Every observation comes with a certain level of uncertainty, so it's important to understand how this affects the robustness of the conclusions that may be drawn from the data. Uncertainties in individual exoplanet observations take different forms: Interpretation uncertainty is linked to false negatives, which may correspond to missing a biosignature and mislabeling a world as uninhabited, whereas so-called sample uncertainty introduces biases in the observed samples. For example, if unrepresentative planets are included even though they fail to have certain agreed-upon requirements for the presence of life.

Asking the right questions

"It's not just about how many planets we observe – it's about asking the right questions and how confident we can be in seeing or not seeing what we're searching for," says Angerhausen. "If we're not careful and are overconfident in our abilities to identify life, even a large survey could lead to misleading results."

Such considerations are highly relevant to upcoming missions such as the international Large Interferometer for Exoplanets (LIFE) mission led by ETH Zurich. The goal of LIFE is to probe dozens of exoplanets similar in mass, radius, and temperature to Earth by studying their atmospheres for signs of water, oxygen, and even more complex biosignatures. According to Angerhausen and collaborators, the good news is that the planned number of observations will be large enough to draw significant conclusions about the prevalence of life in Earth's galactic neighbourhood.

Still, the study stresses that even advanced instruments require careful accounting and quantification of uncertainties and biases to ensure that outcomes are statistically meaningful. To address sample uncertainty, for instance, the authors point out that specific and measurable questions such as, "Which fraction of rocky planets in a solar system's habitable zone show clear signs of water vapor, oxygen, and methane?" are preferable to the far more ambiguous, "How many planets have life?"

The influence of previous knowledge

Angerhausen and colleagues also studied how assumed previous knowledge – called a prior in Bayesian statistics – about given observation variables will affect the results of future surveys. For this purpose, they compared the outcomes of the Bayesian framework with those given by a different method, known as the Frequentist approach, which does not feature priors. For the kind of sample size targeted by missions like LIFE, the influence of chosen priors on the results of the Bayesian analysis is found to be limited and, in this scenario, the two frameworks yield comparable results.

"In applied science, Bayesian and Frequentist statistics are sometimes interpreted as two competing schools of thought. As a statistician, I like to treat them as alternative and complementary ways to understand the world and interpret probabilities," says co-author Emily Garvin, who's currently a PhD student in Quanz' group. Garvin focussed on the Frequentist analysis that helped to corroborate the team's results and to verify their approach and assumptions. "Slight variations in a survey's scientific goals may require different statistical methods to provide a reliable and precise answer," notes Garvin. "We wanted to show how distinct approaches provide a complementary understanding of the same dataset, and in this way present a roadmap for adopting different frameworks."

Finding signs of life could change everything

This work shows why it's so important to formulate the right research questions, to choose the appropriate methodology and to implement careful sampling designs for a reliable statistical interpretation of a study's outcome. "A single positive detection would change everything," says Angerhausen, "but even if we don't find life, we'll be able to quantify how rare – or common – planets with detectable biosignatures really might be."

IMAGE: The first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. Credit NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech

[criisolate]

I'll explain what I did below, before making any change please back up relevant files and make sure you have a decent computer (or at least a good video card, mine is Nividia RTX 2060 6GB). This method was initially posted by Foul Play in Discord, so a big thanks to them!!! 📢Check out the comment section first please. There seems to be some issues with Reshade/Gshade📢 We all know that The Sims 3 is a 32-bit old game that can only use less than 4GB of RAM, making it prone to crash due to memory overflow. Moreover, the game loads some texture memory into RAM, resulting in high RAM usage and low VRAM usage. Even the most powerful computers can't leverage their advantages. Therefore, what we need to do is to allow the game to fully utilize the performance of modern computers, while reducing RAM usage and increasing VRAM usage.

Download and install dxvk. Copy the d3d9.dll from the x32 folder to your bin folder (where you installed smooth patch and reshade/gshade). If you are not familiar with dxvk, it is recommended to check out this post (the 7th page) or videos about dxvk on Youtube.

If you have installed reshade/gshade before, you may be prompted to overwrite files, please choose yes. If reshade/gshade stops working after entering the game, reinstall reshade/gshade, and choose Vulkan mode(for reshade) /dxvk mode(for gshade) instead of d3d9 when installing. For GShade users: you have to manually delete the dxgi.dll generated in your Sims 3 bin folder after installing since it's unnecessary for a d3d9 game like the Sims 3.

Download the dxvk.conf file and place it in the same folder. Open this file with Notepad, delete all content, and add the following text. The first line must be added, and the second and third lines are used to set vertical synchronization and frame rate lock (It's just my personal preference, you can set it up based on the documentation on GitHub). d3d9.textureMemory = 1 d3d9.presentInterval = 1 d3d9.maxFrameRate = 75 At this point, you can enter the game and observe if a TS3W.dxvk-cache file is generated in the bin folder. If so, dxvk is successfully installed. After entering the SIMS 3, the game settings will be reset, so you need to back up the original settings or readjust them directly. For me, simply installing dxvk converted the game's RAM usage of over 300MB to VRAM usage. The Sims 3 became more stable. It's harder for it to reach 3.7GB RAM usage and then crash.

(Experimental, set it cautiously and test yourself)Next, open your GraphicsRules.sgr, search and find two lines seti MemCacheBudgetValue, which determine the size of the game's VRAM Cache. The values behind represent 200MB (209715200) and 160MB (167772160) respectively. Modify these two values to larger numbers (for example 1073741824, which means 1GB). You can choose according to your computer and then have a test in the game. Check how much RAM and VRAM the game is using in the Task Manager after modification and find a proper value. If you don't install dxvk, increasing these values will make your RAM usage higher! EDIT: The original values of 200MB and 160MB are calculated as 200x1024x1024=209175200 and 160x1024x1024=167772160. I set MemCacheBudgetValue to -1 during testing, which represents no limit. Before using dxvk and modifying GraphicsRules.sgr, the game only used less than 1.5GB of VRAM. But now, the game is using over 5GB of VRAM after 2 sims day playing. However, RAM usage continues to increase at the same time and does not remain at a certain size as I expected. Maybe MemCacheBudgetValue should be set to an appropriate size to prevent the game from eventually using over 3.7GB+ of RAM. After applying all these changes, with 6GB of mods and all graphics settings set to the highest, my game now runs more stable and smoother. I recommend you to try these steps above. Results may vary from person to person, so please share your test results in the comments^^

some extra information you may want to know

This method doesn't fundamentally solve the issue of the Sims 3. I suggest going through the performance optimization guides on Steam before attempting this.

Some of the settings in Nvidia (and maybe other cards) no longer take effect after installing dxvk. For example, the vertical sync, frame rate lock, and anisotropic filtering that I set in the Nvidia Control Panel don't work anymore. This may be due to switching the game from d3d9 to Vulkan. Fortunately, some settings can still be adjusted in the dxvk.conf file.

I recommend not opening the Nvidia Control Panel or similar utilities when running games with dxvk, as there's a chance it could switch the game back to d3d9 mode, causing the RAM usage to revert to its original state (I've experienced this a few times).

Each time you install and uninstall dxvk, switching the game between Vulkan and d3d9, is essentially making the game recognize the graphics card again, which results in the settings being repeatedly reset.

What if I say I learnt a way to make ts3 run even smoother🙀 The game is currently running on 2.5+gb of RAM and 5+gb of VRAM… This is insane.

[annarobots]

Word-Find WIP Game

there's nothing like your first tag in a new fandom. thanks @starspray!

How it works: I search for the words assigned to me by the person who tagged me and share the relevant snippets. I then choose four words for others to search in their own WIP(s).

My words are: blue, stars, water & run

All snippets are from Untitled Silmarillion Astrophysicist AU Project.

Blue:

Later, he realized that he probably should have stopped when it became clear that the minister’s wife believed this book was literally true.  But in the moment, the rest of his questions came pouring out.  He asked about the Flame Imperishable, how trees could possibly survive without photosynthesis, the length of a Year, the composition of the Sun, the origins of the Orcs and the Dwarves.  Once he got started, he couldn’t hold back.  The teacher grew increasingly impatient, answering his questions by simply reading back the passages he had already puzzled over.  He clenched his jaw in frustration.  He didn’t want a repetition, he wanted answers.  He looked at a poster on the wall, a pretty illustration of Varda creating the stars.  In the picture, Varda was luminous, gowned in deep blue and black, with radiant sparkles in her hair.  She loomed across the dark sky. 

Stars:

To determine N, one first must estimate: the number of stars in the galaxy, the average number of planets orbiting each star, the fraction that could support life, and the fraction that could evolve intelligence.  None of these figures could be calculated with any real precision; the methods ranged from scientifically grounded to pure speculation.  Multiply the figures together, and the result is the total number of possible civilizations.  “Just think,” he had said, a terrible gleam in his eyes, “there could be hundreds of millions of worlds out there, waiting for us to make contact!”

Water:

Glorfindel and Ecthelion had become environmentalists.  They smoked organic Amanyarin Spirits.  Ecthelion had read some sensational book and gotten very into the nascent Clean Water movement over the past year.

Run:

“SETI is real astronomical research,” Maedhros said stubbornly. Maglor rolled his eyes. “Are you joking,” he said. Maedhros sat up straighter. “Of course I’m not.” “Ah, my mistake,” Maglor said, his tone dripping with phony gentility. “I forgot, you believe in the work so deeply and passionately, you had to run away to Tirion.”

Anyone who would like, please consider yourself tagged! Your words are small, perhaps, pink, and force.

[fmp1olouisewalker]

The curse of the Victorians in Egypt

The Victorians' fascination with Egypt, known as "Egyptomania," peaked during the 19th century. Explorers like Giovanni Battista Belzoni and the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone fuelled public interest in ancient Egyptian culture. Travel companies, such as Thomas Cook and Son, transformed Egypt into a popular tourist destination, offering Nile cruises and visits to historic sites. However, this obsession led to the disturbance of burial sites and mummies, sparking myths of curses, including the famous "Curse of Tutankhamun." These tales reflected cultural anxieties and the consequences of Victorian tourism in Egypt.

Egypt, land of the pharaohs, ancient gods and the immortal dead. A location where areas of science, magic and mummification were studied and practised that allowed spirits to enter the afterlife. However, disturbing the dead erose consequences and its said that they'd seek revenge on those who'd awaken them. How did the spirits in the after life bring upon this revenge?

The curse of Tutankhamun hit newspapers in 1922 when Howard Carter and his financial backer, Lord Carnarvon discovered his tomb and mummified body in the valley of kinds. Just before laying eyes upon the discovery of the young pharaoh Carnarvon would die of mysterious circumstances stirring up superstition of an ancient curse resurrected.

Giovanni Battista Belzoni, an Italian explorer, faced criticism and controversy for his methods in Egypt. While he made significant contributions to Egyptology, such as uncovering the tomb of Seti I and transporting the colossal bust of Ramesses II to England, his approach was often seen as invasive and destructive. Belzoni's removal of artifacts and disregard for preserving the sites earned him the reputation of a "tomb robber" rather than a respectful archaeologist. The idea of Egypt "cursing" Belzoni likely stems from the cultural backlash against his actions and the myths surrounding ancient curses. Egyptians and modern historians have criticized the exploitation of their heritage during the 19th century, associating figures like Belzoni with the disrespectful treatment of sacred sites.

Belzoni attempt to continue his archaeology career but unfortunately failed due to the said to be 'curse' that brough financial and health problems upon him in his later life. Some say that the reason it's said to be a curse is a metaphor for the consequences of his controversial actions and the toll they took on his life and legacy.

Other deaths followed, including George Jay Gould, who visited the tomb, and Hugh Evelyn-White, a British archaeologist who reportedly left a note attributing his suicide to the curse. Within a decade, nine individuals connected to the excavation had died. While the curse captured public imagination, scientists have suggested alternative explanations, such as exposure to harmful fungal spores like Aspergillus flavus, which could cause fatal infections in those with weakened immune systems. The curse remains a mix of myth, coincidence, and cultural superstition.

Learning about the fatalities linked to this discovery has sparked an idea for my own story, tied to the necklace I'm crafting. While I’ve yet to write its backstory, exploring real-world curses and those depicted in films has heightened my imagination and given me fresh inspiration for the narrative.