Saturday, December 9, 2023

December 9

1:34 Teasing the Void.

2:54 I was curious to see if Morse code was a form of digital communicating and it turned out it was, with variable 4.6 bit rate (bits per character) but guess what. 7 and 8 bit ASCII code, later extended to 16 bit Unicode, was developed from it. Every time i press a key here in this text, a 16 digit binary extension of the Morse code is sent to google servers and back to be displayed on my editing field on my browser.

Titanic ship which sank in 1912 was equipped with a wireless Morse code transmitter. To that is owed the survival of 706 of 2,240 passengers and crew. The transmission alerted and gave coordinates to the nearby ships in the frozen surrounding Atlantic.

First global wireless transmission was done before 1900 by Marconi across Atlantic with a rather small transmitter. Tesla built his experimentations station in Colorado Springs in the years 1899-1900.

Tesla, unlike Edison, who was a trial and error type of engineer, was a calculated one. He must have known long distance wireless power transmission cannot work.

Then why his pyramid shape copper cage on top of his laboratory in Colorado Springs, at 6000 ft altitude, together with the biggest Tesla coil ever built, that could generate voltages above 10 million volts at 150-200 kHz?

Based on those experiments he built in 1901-1902 the Wardenclyffe Tower (1901-1917), a project that preceded the Tunguska event in 1908 and WWI in 1914-1918.

To camouflage the importance of those, both projects were dismantled and sold by piece "to cover debt".

Tesla died a (not so) poor man in a hotel room in 1943. His late face was used as prototype for aliens (grays) in a whole SF culture that followed.

Eiffel Tower which was finished in 1889 and also was supposed to be dismantled after "1889 Paris Exposition Universelle" also has the shape of a pyramid. Etc..

4:26 Hard to tell if it's a device or a symbol or both. Compare to...

5:32 Cracking open the space...

1:58 Into the next day already, however had to mention something here. To everybody's disappointment i mentioned things from SF culture. Subspace. Though everybody loves Star Wars and Star Trek, both original and New Generations.

Do i have to remind everyone books like Paris in Twentieth Century written by visionary Jules Verne?

Written in 1863, was refused by the publishers because it was too... futuristic. First published 30 years later, in 1893, it describes with accuracy how would be society in 1960, though a bit optimistic, internet did not appear until 1990, though in France there was a sort of grandfather of it, called minitel, some ten years before internet and probably the inspiration for it.

Star trek transmitters in original series look a h... of a lot like today's (or yesterday's whatever) flip phones. In New Generations, tablets were widespread.

Though i never thought teleportation was possible until these days. But it's different and much better than in Star Trek. Over there, it was limited to jobs like from orbit to planet. Planetary distances. The one i think about, is used to transfer people and goods to other solar systems or maybe even outside galaxy, like i saw in Stargate which i considered a total utopia.

But given the seriousness of the subject and number of similarities, i think they knew something. Could have been a message in a bottle thing.

In Star Trek is done in a clumsy way, that is through digitalization. One would be downloaded molecule by molecule to a database (or buffer whatever) and re-materialized at a distance which has some inconvenience. Downloaded was done of course physically, with a temporary inexistence.

Then, like any database, copies could have been made. It even happened in a few episodes where people, well, were kinda mixed up. Scotty i  think in an episode "lived" in such a buffer for some 70 years until he met with the guys from the New Generations (and somehow got older too LOL). Too futuristic even for me.

Databases could have been scanned like an email and weapons and viruses could have been filtered out, etc..

But Stargate and especially the original, is closest to reality. Only thing the ring was vertical not horizontal and one could step through it. Would make of course spaceships obsolete, both by distances involved and time. However, a counterpart was needed, like another working stargate at the destinations.

Other than that, you would still need ships and the only way to beat the rigors of the speed of light would be of course by bending space or creating around the ship a bubble with nothing in it (talking about EM quanta), excepting the ship itself, and i think that can be done by a fast rotating expanding electric field.

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