Place: Global
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Why Archaeologists Couldn’t Respond to SETI in 2014
The Unanswered Question In 2014, NASA published “Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication,” edited by Douglas Vakoch. The initiative called for archaeologists to contribute their expertise in understanding past cultures to help SETI researchers design communication strategies for extraterrestrial contact. It…
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Are We the Transmission?: The Archaeological Record Future Civilizations Will Discover
Introduction Four billion years of planetary history, the complete evolutionary record of life on Earth, from single-celled organisms to technological civilization. The geological transformations of a living world. The extinctions, the radiations, the slow accumulation of atmospheric oxygen. The emergence…
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The War on Progress: How Today’s Elite Counter-Attack Echoes 1914
What if the unrest and chaos in politics right now is quite simply explained by looking at the history of the struggle between elites and workers in western societies. The survival of feudal elites and their offshoots is indeed a…
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SETI is Archaeology: Signal Science Across Spacetime
Dylan Foley – Archaeological SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Philosophy of Archaeology Series Words:1823 We Know Exactly One Thing About SETI In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, we face a lot of uncertainties. Although we can make educated guesses, we…
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Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up?
In relation to the British governments response to the Manchester suicide bomber, it is most interesting to contrast how the Tory establishment treated IRA violence during the height of their campaigns, and this “Islamic” violence now. To put it simply,…