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A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)
- elzbardico 3y agoI propose we use Cardi B, Beyoncé, Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift to keep hostile aliens away from earth.
- labrador 3y agoOn Christmas day after dinner we were sitting around chit chatting and the subject of Taylor Swift came up. I mentioned I thought it was odd I didn't know any of her songs. I could name songs by Lana del Ray, Adele, Amy Winehouse and Billie Eilish, but drew a blank on Taylor Swift. A gay friend of the family seemed offended, but he looked on his phone and realized he couldn't name any either. No one in my large family could name a TS song. About a week later I started seeing reports that Taylor Swift was a psyop, which I thought was hilarious given that earlier conversation, but don't believe for a minute.
- epiccoleman 3y agoThis comment vaguely reminded me of this delightfully strange article on Taylor Swift that Sam Kriss published a while back: https://samkriss.substack.com/p/taylor-swift-does-not-exist https://samkriss.substack.com/p/taylor-swift-does-not-exist
- labrador 3y agoThat's a fine piece of manic writing. I enjoyed it so thanks for sharing. The other weird thing for me is that I'm a huge fan of female artists starting at a young age with Joni Mitchell (I kept this to myself so the fellows didn't think I was gay) up to Aurura, Kate Bush, PJ Harvey and the other previously mentioned artists but total blank on Taylor Swift. These are the more conspiratorial type stories I was referring to Pentagon Rejects Fox News Conspiracy About Taylor Swift Being Recruited as an Asset https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-pentagon-asset-conspiracy-fox-news-1234945651/ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-p...
- ahazred8ta 3y agoShe's known for moonlighting as an InfoSec guru. /s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SwiftOnSecurity https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SwiftOnSecurity
- labrador 3y agoI'm a big fan of SwiftOnSecurity, the place previously that I heard anything about Taylor until she started dating a sports guy.
- kirubakaran 3y agoI don't listen to Taylor Swift at all, but even I've heard of "Shake it off". Is your comment about your memory or about her mindshare among non-fans?
- labrador 3y agoI've never heard Shake it off. I listen mostly to YouTube, which never recommends her. Maybe she's more Apple/Spotify? I would think I'd hear a song of her around town some where. I don't know what she sounds like, so I don't know if I'd recognize her voice. At this point, I think I'll remain ignorant of Ms Swift in case she is a psyop lol
- kirubakaran 3y agoTaylor Swift is a psyop meme is the psyop. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they're not out to get you :-p
- elzbardico 3y agoI tried listening to a couple of songs of Taylor Swift. I find it is important to keep an open mind and not be a complete snob. But I can't even remember the melodies let alone the titles. It completely goes like through a vacuum in my brain, as if my mind decided it is completely unremarkable.
- labrador 3y agoThat's probaby it. I don't resonate with Taylor Swift's emotional landscape so I never notice her songs when they're playing.
- iancmceachern 3y agoThey only listen to whale songs
- techwiz137 3y agoAm I the only one that thinks it's not a good idea? I mean the signal hasnt traveled very far, but yeah these announcements "hey, we're here" aren't very nice.
- lijok 3y agoAgreed. Horrible idea to broadcast our position like this. But hella exciting
- notso411 3y agoBit late for that mate.
- dylan604 3y agoNot really sure why this was killed, but it's absolutely true. From the moment we started making radio signals, we've been broadcasting our location. Every single time we communicate with our deep space probes, we're sending out very specific signals that we're here. To that end, that's the entire point of the opening scene in the movie Contact. It's just that the time frame we've been broadcasting is just a drop in the ocean of cosmological time, and the signals really haven't gone very far in comparison.
- samus 3y agoOur signals are so weak that they will probably fade and get drowned out by the electromagnetic noise of interstellar space. We can communicate with our probes only because we use directional signals and we pretty much know what to look for on the receiving end. If aliens manage to pick those up, then their probes would already be like < 1ly away, and they would have noticed us long ago by different means. The intentional signals are a different story though.
- exe34 3y agoThey can probably just watch co2 spectral lines and count how many of us there are.
- notso411 3y ago[dead]
- dylan604 3y agoA group of us DJ friends used to say "we speak alien" which was a comment about the type of music we played. There's a group by the name of Eat Static which is known for their prolific use of aliens trope and 50s style sci-fi samples that has an album titled "Abduction". One of the tracks is called "Gulf Breeze" which at one point was famous for the most reports of alien abductions. I always wanted to spend a night playing music on the beach waiting for the aliens to make an appearance as it seemed to be the most likely of places for it to happen. Just a random story on a bored sunday
- wizardforhire 3y agoSome now even go so far as to claim theyre aliens… or more specifically reptilians
- hammyhavoc 3y agoWho? There are DNA tests waiting for them to validate this very specific brand of bullshit.
- c0pium 3y agoYour argument is that a brain which is functioning so poorly that it thinks it’s a reptile will be convinced by some piece of paper from a lab? That’s an interesting thought.
- jacquesm 3y agoThere are nice, somewhat tight garments waiting for them. DNA tests are a waste. This if funny farm level delusion, assuming they're not doing it just for kicks. Such beliefs to me are an indicator of a malfunction and just like having your towel with you is an indication of being prepared for everything and that you probably are in the possession of a lot of other useful stuff so is this idea one that comes with a high probability that you have more garbage rolling around in your head.
- dylan604 3y agoWait, you're saying that people claim that they themselves are reptilians? I've only heard the nutters claiming that other people are reptiles. There's always gotta be somebody out there that just has to one up the story.
- ww520 3y agoAliens won’t bother unless a warp drive leaves a hyper jump signature.
- david_shi 3y ago"In sending out music, the idea was to communicate that sense of humanness, that feeling and drive, that ecstasy." Somehow, this makes perfect sense.
- Triphibian 3y agoThe turntablist Mix Master Mike (Beastie Boys, Invisibl Skratch Pikls) used to say that his scratches were an attempt to speak to aliens.
- motohagiography 3y agocant talk about using music to contact aliens without mentioning https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Spiegel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Spiegel
- DoodahMan 3y agotruthfully if i was not of this world and heard Fela Kuti being broadcasted into the cosmos i'd be coaxed into coming to Earth. those are some damn good vibrations!
- evanmoran 3y agoOn a related note, here’s a paper by (Hugo award winner) David Brin that I came across recently that talks about why we do not hear communications from other life forms in our galaxy. Not being found is a pretty good strategy for survival: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Brin/publication/234496344_The_%27Great_Silence%27_The_Controversy_Concerning_Extraterrestrial_Intelligent_Life/links/5468f0e30cf20dedafd0d529/The-Great-Silence-The-Controversy-Concerning-Extraterrestrial-Intelligent-Life.pdf?origin=publication_detail&_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uRG93bmxvYWQiLCJwcmV2aW91c1BhZ2UiOiJwdWJsaWNhdGlvbiJ9fQ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Brin/publication/...
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