It's hot >_
Jul. 13th, 2003 05:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zaichikarkyI no like it. I took an IQ Test today, and got a score of 126. This is higher than average, I've heard... I'm having Alexis take it now. I have a feeling she will SURPASS me. It said I was a precisionist or something, and I was good with numbers... heh. INTERESTING.
Anyway, I have not been doing well with the reading this summer ~_~. I finished up my FIRST summer book, The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton... in two weeks after purchase, so I must PICK UP MY PACE. *orders herself to stop playing Zelda so much and read more* ^_^*.
The book itself was a little boring... about a virus that killed off a very small town of less than 100 people in Piedmont, Arizona. It was later hypothesized that this came from outer space. It was the most fascinating concept . Meh, BIG QUOTE TIME
The Messenger Theory had come from John R. Sameuls, a communications engineer. Speaking before the Fifth Anual COnference of Astronautics and Communications, he had reviewed some theories about the way in which an alien culture might choose to contact other cultures. He had argued that the most advanced concepts in communications in earth technology were inadequate, and that advanced cultures would find better methods.
"Let's say a culture wishes to scan the universe," he said. "Let's say that they wish to have a sort of 'coming-out party' on a galactic scale- to formally announce their existence, in every direction. What is the best way to do this? Radio? Hardly- radio is too slow, too expensice, and it decays too rapidly. Strong signals weaken withini a few billion miles. TV is even worse. Light rays are fantastically expensive to generate. Even if one learned a way to detonate whole stars, to explode a sun as a kind of signal, it would be costly.
"Besides expense, all these methods suffer the traditional drawback to any radiation, namely decreasing strength with distance. A light bulb may be unbearably bright at ten feet; it may be powerful at 1000 feet; it may be visible at 10 miles( an ultra powaa lightbulb? 0__o). But at a million miles, it is completely obscure, because radiant energy decreases according to the fourth power of the radius. A simple, unbeatable law of physics.
"So you do not use physics to carry your signal. You use biology. You create a communications system that does not diminish with distance, but rather remains as powerful a million miles away as it was at the source.
" In short, you devise an organism to carry your message. The organism would be self-replicating, cheap, and could be produced in fantastic numbers. For a few dollars, you could produce trillions of them, and send them off in all directions into space. They would be tough, hardy bugs, able to withstand the rigors of space, adnd they would grow and duplicate and divide. Within a few years, there would be countless numbers of these in the galaxy, speeding in all directions, waiting to contact life
"And when they did? Each single organism would carry the potential to develop into a full organ, or a full organism. They would, upon contacting life, begin to grow into a complete communicating mechanism. It is like spewing out a billion braincells, each capable of regrowing a complete brain under the proper circumstances. The newly grown brain would then speak to the new culture- informing it of the presence of other, and announcing it in which contact may be made"
Uh, yeah, now where was I? For those of you who wanna read this book, stop reading my entry, NOW. : ). When scientists went down there to investigate this, they found that all the people died of massive clotting. Only two survived. An infant and an old man. An ultra secure, advanced underground facility housed a few men working on the "Wildfire Project", designed to learn all they could about the strain. They poked and prodded at the green substance, and discovered it was neither bacterial, or a cell, at least, it didn't have the organelles inside to denote it being a cell... Also, if contamination occured, the whole building would self explode in three minutes, one man, Hall had the key to stop it. A surgeon, he was put into the project because apparantly studies showed that single men performed better than any other group 0_o. They later found out that the
The scientists had to discover what on earth the infant and the old man had in common , they found out that the man was taking an excessive amount of medication to make his blood more acidic than normal. Asprins and other crap were his self-remedy for his ulcer problems. But there was nothing at all wrong with the infant. Eventually, they found out that the virus only thrived in a very small PH scale. 7.3-7.5, or something like that. The baby was SCREAMING avidly at the time, and that somehow got it's PH down to basic level, while the old man was too acidic... Also, they discovered that the virus mutated to be non-lethal to humans at the very end. Because, there was a contamination and it was heading to LA...
I was told to walk my dog alone in this HEAT. RARG. I write NO MORE.
Anyway, I have not been doing well with the reading this summer ~_~. I finished up my FIRST summer book, The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton... in two weeks after purchase, so I must PICK UP MY PACE. *orders herself to stop playing Zelda so much and read more* ^_^*.
The book itself was a little boring... about a virus that killed off a very small town of less than 100 people in Piedmont, Arizona. It was later hypothesized that this came from outer space. It was the most fascinating concept . Meh, BIG QUOTE TIME
The Messenger Theory had come from John R. Sameuls, a communications engineer. Speaking before the Fifth Anual COnference of Astronautics and Communications, he had reviewed some theories about the way in which an alien culture might choose to contact other cultures. He had argued that the most advanced concepts in communications in earth technology were inadequate, and that advanced cultures would find better methods.
"Let's say a culture wishes to scan the universe," he said. "Let's say that they wish to have a sort of 'coming-out party' on a galactic scale- to formally announce their existence, in every direction. What is the best way to do this? Radio? Hardly- radio is too slow, too expensice, and it decays too rapidly. Strong signals weaken withini a few billion miles. TV is even worse. Light rays are fantastically expensive to generate. Even if one learned a way to detonate whole stars, to explode a sun as a kind of signal, it would be costly.
"Besides expense, all these methods suffer the traditional drawback to any radiation, namely decreasing strength with distance. A light bulb may be unbearably bright at ten feet; it may be powerful at 1000 feet; it may be visible at 10 miles( an ultra powaa lightbulb? 0__o). But at a million miles, it is completely obscure, because radiant energy decreases according to the fourth power of the radius. A simple, unbeatable law of physics.
"So you do not use physics to carry your signal. You use biology. You create a communications system that does not diminish with distance, but rather remains as powerful a million miles away as it was at the source.
" In short, you devise an organism to carry your message. The organism would be self-replicating, cheap, and could be produced in fantastic numbers. For a few dollars, you could produce trillions of them, and send them off in all directions into space. They would be tough, hardy bugs, able to withstand the rigors of space, adnd they would grow and duplicate and divide. Within a few years, there would be countless numbers of these in the galaxy, speeding in all directions, waiting to contact life
"And when they did? Each single organism would carry the potential to develop into a full organ, or a full organism. They would, upon contacting life, begin to grow into a complete communicating mechanism. It is like spewing out a billion braincells, each capable of regrowing a complete brain under the proper circumstances. The newly grown brain would then speak to the new culture- informing it of the presence of other, and announcing it in which contact may be made"
Uh, yeah, now where was I? For those of you who wanna read this book, stop reading my entry, NOW. : ). When scientists went down there to investigate this, they found that all the people died of massive clotting. Only two survived. An infant and an old man. An ultra secure, advanced underground facility housed a few men working on the "Wildfire Project", designed to learn all they could about the strain. They poked and prodded at the green substance, and discovered it was neither bacterial, or a cell, at least, it didn't have the organelles inside to denote it being a cell... Also, if contamination occured, the whole building would self explode in three minutes, one man, Hall had the key to stop it. A surgeon, he was put into the project because apparantly studies showed that single men performed better than any other group 0_o. They later found out that the
The scientists had to discover what on earth the infant and the old man had in common , they found out that the man was taking an excessive amount of medication to make his blood more acidic than normal. Asprins and other crap were his self-remedy for his ulcer problems. But there was nothing at all wrong with the infant. Eventually, they found out that the virus only thrived in a very small PH scale. 7.3-7.5, or something like that. The baby was SCREAMING avidly at the time, and that somehow got it's PH down to basic level, while the old man was too acidic... Also, they discovered that the virus mutated to be non-lethal to humans at the very end. Because, there was a contamination and it was heading to LA...
I was told to walk my dog alone in this HEAT. RARG. I write NO MORE.
