Rethinking SETI Part 3: Looking Afar
A search for galactic monuments
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Rethinking SETI Part 2: Who Can See Us?
A Finishable Search for Replies to Earth
Rethinking SETI Part 1: The Beacons Worth Building
Only two motives fund a beacon — being heard and being answered — and neither funds the one SETI searched for
A Tethered-Balloon Stratospheric Aerosol Injection System Sized for 1.5 °C of Cooling
An engineering design — materials, unit costs, and total system scale — for a tethered balloon SAI delivery system, building on Davidson, Burgoyne, Hunt & Causier (2012)
Nuclear-Powered Ocean Liming System
A whitepaper on a nuclear-powered ocean liming system: modular design, siting strategy, rollout plan, and cost estimate
A Solar Shade at Sun–Earth L1
A whitepaper on a solar shade at Sun–Earth L1, system design, lunar manufacturing plan, and cost estimate
Relativistic Von Neumann Needle Probes
A speculative technical whitepaper on relativistic self-replicating needle probes for interstellar and intergalactic propagation.
Engineered Panspermia as Technosignature: A Framework for Detecting Deliberate Galactic Seeding
A whitepaper on directed panspermia detection and the anomalous organics of Mars.
The Lacework Survey: A Proposal for Detecting Galactic Wormhole Network Technosignatures Through Multi-Modal Anomaly Detection
A proposal for detecting galactic wormhole network technosignatures through multi-modal anomaly detection.
Bitcoin Is the Worst Currency, Except for All the Others
An exploration of Bitcoin's role as a currency, its comparison to traditional money, and its future prospects in the global financial system.
Identity Is All You Need
Exploring how blockchain technology and decentralized systems could revolutionize digital identity and reshape our online world.