[ExI] Wrong frequency? Astronomers rethink where to hunt for alien signals

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 12:14 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
> The scoundrels stole your idea before you thought of it.  Happens to me often.  I try to sue their asses, but they just laugh me out of the courtroom.  So many of them just get away with pre-stealing my ideas!

I'm currently running into the opposite issue.  There are people with
problems, for which I have solutions.  I try to get knowledge of these
solutions to them.  Walls go up to keep them from hearing of or
considering solutions other than the expensive, ineffective, and
expensively ineffective ones they already know about.  Even trying to
get these ideas seeded into the AIs they consult hasn't worked (yet).

> Adrian you are one of the fellers who have been around here a long time.  I recall your being at either Extro3 or Extro4.  That was the one where Robert Bradbury practically had a tantrum when one of the panel speakers opined that germline modification would never be done in humans.  Do you recall which one that was?  Sasha Chislenko gave a very impassioned speech.  It was at Berkeley in about... 199... 7?  1998?  We were younger then than we are now.

Long ago, passed from active memory.  I live in the now, for the future.