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[Previous entry: "Top 10 NASA photos."] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Scientific fraud might lead to 'photoshop detector.'"] 01/24/2006 Entry: "Nutty professor thinks microwave radiation has secret codes." Nutty professor thinks microwave radiation has secret codes. “If you did create such a universe, how would you tell the occupants of that universe that their universe was made in a lab at MIT?” Hsu said. “One place to put the message would be in a microwave background.”Err right. You could aslo stamp it on everyone's forehead. I love how futurists and other nutters always think some giant advance which will change the world and validate their beliefs is always 20 or 30 years away. It was kinda sad to see Tim Leary die of cancer after reading so much of his stuff about the immortality pill that was 20 or 30 years away. Or the pill that would simulate death thus giving you a new outlook on life, which of course, was only 20 or 30 years away. Suddenly, it 20 or 30 years later and none of these high-minded predictions came true. Also, according to Ray Kurzweil the singularity or at least a really really good human mind simulator is only 20 or 30 years away. I'm all for positive thinking, but big advances are rarely forseen. Who foresaw Newtonian physics or Relativity? Or even the things we take for granted post-Industrial Revolution. The future is always weirder than our predictions.
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