Close Encounters: alien contact, debunking, and music communication
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\\u201cLevels\\u201d of alien contact. Converting anal probes and sex bases to contact \\u201clevels.\\u201d
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- First kind: visual contact \\n
- Second kind: evidence of contact \\n
- Third kind: in-person contact \\n
How to pronounce butte. Convention vs personal preference. The awesome nature of structures like The Devil\\u2019s Tower, jutting up all inaccessible as they are. Translation errors for fun and profit. Thinking back to Schiaparelli\\u2019s canals. Geological origins: igneous intrusions and volcanic butte plugs.
\\n\\n \\u201cSunburn\\u201d \\n\\nUltraviolet effects on body tissues. What is a sunburn? Arc welding and ultraviolet exposure: \\u201carc eye.\\u201d
\\n\\n Debunking things \\n\\nShying away from debunking. Appreciating folks who cross boundaries and make deeply interesting informative generally-useful critical thinking-training material, like Captain Disillusion. Credulity and our personal predispositions.
\\n\\n SETI \\n\\nAppreciating a scientific, rigorous approach to finding intelligent life in the cosmos.
\\n\\n Communicating with aliens \\n\\nRandomness in space signals. Encoded information, decipherable to latitude and longitude. Past sightings of alien information encoding on Decipher SciFi: Arrival (part 1, part 2), Contact. Math! alien tonal communication.
\\n\\n Music! The Tones! \\n\\nMusic as math. Considering the tiny slice of reality in which we operate. Considering the universality in physics of the mathematical relationships between vibrations. Caelum Rale\\u2019s mathematical musical perspective. Making sense of the noise of the universe and demonstrating intelligence across vast distances.
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- \\n\\t\\t\\t\\tCaptain Disillusion: YouTube\\n\\t\\t\\t \\n\\t\\t\\n\\t\\t\\t
- \\n\\t\\t\\t\\tEscherian Stairwell Deconstruction by Captain Disillusion: YouTube\\n\\t\\t\\t \\n\\t\\t\\n\\t