Spaceman

If there's hope, it lies in the proles.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

We’re probably living in the galactic boondocks — and even if aliens have already built a “galactic internet,” we almost certainly can’t join it.

Japanese astrophysicist Koji Tsumura from Tohoku University decided to test one of the boldest ideas out there: what if other civilizations in the Milky Way don’t just exist, but have already been searching for each other and built a shared communication network? How realistic is it for our civilization to connect to that network?

The answer is pretty grim: almost impossible.

Why almost no one can hear us

There are billions of Sun-like stars in the Galaxy, and millions of them should have planets in the habitable zone. The classic Drake equation suggests there ought to be a lot of intelligent civilizations. But then we run into the famous Fermi paradox: “So where is everybody?”

Tsumura started from the most optimistic scenario — civilizations exist, they’re active, and they’ve already built a galaxy-wide network. Even then, everything depends on location. The galactic habitable zone isn’t the entire Galaxy; it’s a relatively narrow band where three things line up:

- enough heavy elements to form planets,
- stars that live long enough,
- and not too many nearby supernovae sterilizing everything around them.

Modeling showed that the most densely populated part of the Galaxy is probably about 3,000 light-years closer to the center than the Solar System. We’re sitting roughly 26,000 light-years from the center — on the rather distant periphery. Out in these “suburbs,” the chances of plugging into a shared network are essentially zero. Either there are simply too few civilizations for a network to exist at all.
Can we at least detect anyone?

Detecting even one extraterrestrial civilization is theoretically possible, but only if it:

- exists at the same time as we do,
- is deliberately beaming a signal toward the Sun,
- and is doing so in a way we can actually notice.

According to Tsumura’s calculations, the fact that we still haven’t heard anyone means there’s a 35–38% chance that there really is nobody within about 6,000 light-years of us. But there’s a 61–65% chance that civilizations do exist — we just can’t detect them for some reason.

In other words: our cosmic loneliness is not yet proof that the Milky Way is empty. We might simply be sitting in a quiet neighborhood where signals either don’t reach us or arrive too weakly to notice.

The study is available on arXiv (arxiv org/abs/2610.20475).

[Spaceman @Nordlebash]

STEVIE FUCKIN WONDER!

[Spaceman @Nordlebash]

Only wan issue. The show finishes 6 minutes afore the last train. Train station is a mile away fae The Hydro and it can take 10 minutes jist tae get ootside the venue.
Nae chance I'm leaving early though. I'll take the hit for the expensive taxi.

[Spaceman @Nordlebash]

Making a day ae it.
Wearing big boy claise and going tae a fancy restaurant for an early dinner tae set us up.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Cressida Dick working for Palantir raises the same concerns I’ve expressed about Tom Watson.

What does a company gain when it recruits a former Labour deputy leader or a former Metropolitan Police commissioner? Their experience, yes. But also their contacts, influence and the authority associated with the offices they held.

This ‘revolving door’ corrodes confidence in politics, public service generally and in institutions such as the police.

Read more here: https://t.co/36D0k5QD0R

@TBIJ

[Spaceman @Nordlebash]

Pits perspective oan criticism ae fitbawers. The average supporter disnae huv a clue whit's going oan wi a player.

[Clyde 1 Superscoreboard @ClydeSSB]

🎥 WATCH: “Whenever you’re sat on a hospital bed, two days before the first game at a World Cup and about to get put to sleep - it’s not ideal.”

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scott McTominay reveals he had to have his heart “shocked” two days before Scotland’s World Cup opener against Haiti ⬇️

[Spaceman @Nordlebash]

Two high profile English beasts huv came tae the fore this week.
I don't hink they've been described by their colour or religion though? How come?
The 'patriots' who claim tae 'protect our women' must being loving the justice so much that they've forgotten tae tweet aboot it.

[Spaceman @Nordlebash]

Cue the 'antisemitic brigade', wondering how tae pour scorn oan this and accuse Jews ae being anti Jewish.

[Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown]

NEW: 260 British Jews – among them British Israeli historian Avi Shlaim, human rights barrister Margaret Owen OBE and journalist and politician @andrewfeinstein – have accused the @BoardofDeputies of genocide denial in an open letter.

[Spaceman @Nordlebash]

Stevie Wonder wis at the tap ae my bucket list gigs up until last year. The morra I'll be seeing him for the second time in a second country in jist o'er a year.
Baith tickets sit at 1st & 2nd in maist expensive gigs, by a significant margin, but I still don't mind the cost.

[Spaceman @Nordlebash]

https://t.co/O4zqFCTBXB
Probably said it afore, but it bears repeating. This is as imaginative as it is guid.
Love the evolutionary thought processes going oan.

[Spaceman @Nordlebash]

@bigbemz1 Nice wan. Looking sharp, big man.

[Spaceman @Nordlebash]

What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?
#SadStatue

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Strong pro-Israel bias among BBC bosses.

BBC executives met nine times with pro-Israel Jewish groups and just once with pro-Palestinians in first 14 months of genocide👇

https://t.co/pDd5HlpvXO

[NewsCord @newscord_org]

It’s hard to grasp the BBC’s systematic attempt to launder Israeli propaganda until you see the sheer scale of it. Here's a compilation of them doing it at 2x speed.

The latest was on Newsnight on 4 November. When Bernie Sanders called Israel’s government extremist, Victoria Derbyshire answered for it: “And the Israeli government would deny that they are extremists.”

As this video shows, BBC presenters repeatedly do this as guests describe Israel’s crimes: “Israel would say.” “Israel would deny.” “They would reject that.”

We counted 70 of these denials and justifications in 52 aired interviews. The BBC calls this impartiality. But in not one of those 52 did a presenter raise any of these words from Israel’s own leaders:

- “We are fighting human animals.” Yoav Gallant, 9 October 2023
- “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible.” Isaac Herzog, 12 October 2023
- “They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world.” Israel Katz, 13 October 2023
- “Remember what Amalek did to you.” Benjamin Netanyahu, 3 November 2023
- Starving two million people in Gaza until the hostages came back might be “justified and moral”. Bezalel Smotrich, 5 August 2024

On 10 October 2023, Tahani Mustafa told the BBC that Israeli forces were not distinguishing civilians from fighters. The presenter replied: “They would reject that.” Mustafa then had to bring up Gallant’s “human animals” herself. The BBC supplied the denial. The guest had to supply Israel’s own words.

That is cherry-picking. The Royal Charter requires the BBC to be impartial, and the public pays for it through the licence fee. In these interviews, it handed its audience Israel’s denials and left out its leaders’ own words, during a genocide streamed live to the world.

We have archived the BBC’s coverage for three years, and we are now counting all of it: 50,000 video clips and many more written excerpts.

We are calling this first part: "BBC: The Would Say Files".

Handing Israel its denials is only one of the ways the BBC launders Israeli propaganda, so we will count every other technique too. Over the next few weeks, we will announce each milestone as we complete the report.

These are the first results, with every clip, quote and source: https://t.co/qEYyFnMyCV

[Spaceman @Nordlebash]

https://t.co/cquf2KylZv
I've watched this so many times. Incredible.

[Spaceman @Nordlebash]

I love folk wi this sense ae fun, adventure and lack ae self preservation.

[沙里🐰警察・行政の闇を追う @sari_des1]

アメリカ版の鳥人間コンテスト。ダイナミックでユーモラスでやはりエンタメはアメリカにはかなわない！

[Spaceman @Nordlebash]

Wan ae thon bands that ye cannae stop playing wance ye start...

[Spaceman @Nordlebash]

Woooooooooo!

[Spaceman @Nordlebash]

Hard tae beat...