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From https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f= ... 06#p179606Tricky wrote:Really off-topic... Interesting paper, reminds me of this I downloaded 5 or 6 years ago... On Distributed Communications, by The RAND Corporation - Santa Monica, California, USACommRLock78 wrote:Off topic Getafix, but your signature has caught my attention on more than one occassion (twice, to be exact). I have a bit more to learn in my own study of physics before I'll be getting my head completely around this paper, but at least I can say that it isn't all 'Greek' at this point in time (I'm in my junior year of a Physics BS - of both that and a Music composition/theory BA ). This fact sure makes people's job at SETI that much more difficult ; and goes to show that we may have gotten an intelligent signal and not even been aware of it .
Really old paper. No, I mean REALLY OLD. About mid 1960's.
EDIT: You might recognize this as the pre-cursor to the Internet.
I thought I recognized that name... Majestic 12. I actually saw these so called documents back in 1994 before they were put on the web, along with the "official" report on the Roswell incident.CommRLock78 wrote:No doubt - thanks for the share Tricky. I think Vanevar Bush's ideas were the first step towards a world-wide knowledge repository and this paper definitely takes it a few steps further than what he was considering.Tricky wrote:EDIT: You might recognize this as the pre-cursor to the Internet.