Re: Interstellar Information Transmission, was Re: Kurzweil's ...

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 21:59:57 MST


At 08:37 PM 15/03/01 -0800, Robert wrote:

>you can assign a real "cost" to losing energy
>(due to photon spreading due the inverse square law affecting
>the strength of signals being transmitted -- photons you can't
>receive with your "detector" are lost energy/matter) and the actual
>"matter" lost due to ablation

Redundancy. Redundancy. Redundancy. Let me say it again. Redundancy.

Cost goes up, true.

Damien Broderick



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