Posts by Conundrum1885

Project "Backstep"

Project "Backstep"

Hi all,

Anyone interested in a copy of this, as managed to recover "something" from old notes suggesting that to send a signal back in time is a lot simpler than first thought.

Essentially the method is to set up the SDR receiver and datalogger beforehand, continuously record the signal and aim the transmitter at a region within the thunderstorm that is likely to produce positron clouds and thus has a chance for a CTC to form for 1-5 seconds as the positrons decay.

It only really needs a couple of Watts RF if done right, even a simple dish with 1/4 wave antenna should work but for safety it is better to ensure that any signal generators send short bursts of data only with a very simple pattern such as short number sequences which can show up on the SDR as a frequency comb distribution.

If someone else stumbles across it they will get gibberish.

I am not precisely sure but some RF anomalies such as long duration repeats may be linked to this effect.

Intriguingly I think this happened once by accident a few months ago, got some sequences suggesting various events that did in fact occur (eg Shape of Water winning Best Picture).

AI beats astroboffins at sniffing out fast radio bursts amid the universe's clutter

Idea

Could the aliens be using a nearby galaxy (more likely several) as gravitational lenses to re-focus and boost the signal?

Think "Gate Bridge" here.

Also relevant: its possible that the "Wow!" signal might have been sent in the same way, possibly from Trangulum or even further afield.

If you think about it using this method means you can ping multiple galaxies from one antenna on say a rotating planet which would be a good way to say "Hi there!" without risking repercussions, due to that most inconvenient speed of light delay.

A boss pinching pennies may have cost his firm many, many pounds

Re. Warranty Denied

Haha. I have heard of folks buying *used* drives off Ebay for DR purposes before sending a drive off for "proper" recovery (frowned upon by official DR companies) but this is a whole new level of assclown.

In fact I am in the meerkat for a used ST9750420AS if someone has a spare, this particular one seems to have a board fail. 9RT14G-500 0001SDM6 Spins but no activity, no clicks, nothing.

Has some important data on it but mostly just web browsing. I'd like to get it back one day if possible but to be honest its not worth £600+ though may one day be handy for verifying my physics notes circa 2015 preceded official discovery by about three years.

Very fortunately it was backed up to a mirror so was merely an annoyance.

A flash of inspiration sees techie get dirty to fix hospital's woes

RE. Re. $Deity mode

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}. (remove final period) does work.

What I don't understand is why it shows SDR# is causing 90% of the errors.

Anyone have a theory? machine is pretty old but program does work fine most of the time.

Drama as boffins claim to reach the Holy Grail of superconductivity

More information on bipolarons

Essentially a bipolaron is a quasi-particle believed to originate from electron interactions with phonons (lattice vibrations) which are themselves a quasi-particle of probabilistic origin where the electron orbits are distorted into a resonance.

In fact HTSC is a manifestation of quantum effects on a macroscopic scale.

I am now working on a variant of earlier work, please feel free to contribute.

The intriguing discovery of Br doping in graphene is believed to be causally linked to HTSC in that it might be a precursor so we now have the graphene equivalent of a Mott insulator.

Ever seen printer malware in action? Install this HP Ink patch – or you may find out

PC Load Fist

Otherwise known as the "12 pound CLUE HAMMER repair technique"

I have a nice collection of dinosaurs here, scared ze missus when I went "Full Arnie" on the unfortunate victim printer and amazingly enough this unstuck it enough that it printed fine.

Its still working!!

Did you know that cats love printers? You can always tell because the guts are *totally* clogged up with icky cat hair, kind of like a trichobezoar but less messy.

Same with laptops but they normally do not survive this treatment.

First low-frequency fast radio burst to grace our skies detected at last

Uh, am I the only one

580 MHz is the sort of frequency that might be used for an interplanetary radar.

Low frequency, far away from the hydrogen band and a quiet area of the spectrum.

Tech team trapped in data centre as hypoxic gas flooded in. Again

Re. biggenbang

Around the time of the previously mentioned KABOOM my mini seismometer went off, consisting of sample of pyrolytic graphite hovering over four small magnets in a Halbach array.

Went to check on something else and the graphite was sitting on the window sill.

Catch is I was hundreds of miles away.

Any ideas?

Laptop scrapping

Laptop scrapping

Hi,

What useful parts/scrap metals can I get from in old laptops?

These are ancient dinosaurs pre-i3 so aren't worth much as complete machines by the time you factor in shipping and handling.

Thought about stripping off the copper alloy coolers as there is quite a lot of Cu in them.

At this time of year I can plate it out for nothing using solar.

Maybe the CPUs, Wifi cards etc are worth something?

Nuking media

Nuking media

Hi folks.

I have found something interesting, there is a second hand market for used SSDs and memory cards if they do still work.

I usually just zerofill them but has anyone got a tool that checks the wear leveling data similar to the SMART on a conventional hard drive? I have yet to see anything like this but no doubt the manufacturers use it in production.

Thanks in advance!

Batteries are so heavy, said user. If I take it out, will this thing work?

Re: Hmmm :(

Very fortunately the contacts can't be reversed.

I have a dead "tough" Olympus here (u1020?) if anyone has a use, MB is fried.

Display etc are fine, pretty sure its an easy fix but symptoms are that it turns on then immediately off with "Low Battery" even with a new charged tested battery.

Also a more recent unit, this one has a bad screen and no sadly they aren't interchangeable.

£29 is a big chunk of change for such an old camera so its cooling its heels in "BOFH Hell" in a cement-and-plastic overcoat next to my unlicensed nuclear accelerator.

Opportunity knocked? Rover survives Martian winter, may not survive budget cuts

Day 5,601

"Wheeeeeere iiiiiiissss eeeveryboddddddy... "

Curiosity SYSLOG X10820

Contact lost with Earth on 29 June 2019, Mars SOL *5601

Something isn't right here, has there been some accident or catastrophe back on Earth?

Last data packet said nothing was wrong so switching to backup protocols.

Attempting data packet burst ID "(WHRARYOU00)" on classified backup frequency 11.025 GHz

to report "Finding *888, possible evidence for fluorescence on wavelengths associated with DNA base pairs U and A, not corresponding to terrestrial life patterns or known calibration data stored"

no reply

Awaiting input.

Do computers have NDEs?

Do computers have NDEs?

Hi all.

This may sound a bit esoteric, but what happens when a PC "dies" but then gets brought back by HDD cloning, component repair etc?

I'm talking full non bootable here, not just a simple restore from last known good.

Had a machine here like that, one day after strange problems it just failed completely.

Concluded that the HDD had failed irreparably and after various attempts ended up getting it cloned by a third party despite it not working properly (booted on similar MB but unable to copy user data)

Somehow (we don't know how) the 1TB drive did copy just barely and was useable afterwards but obviously had some problems.

Still using it now!

Data corruption seems to show that something bad happened during a routine update but based on the corruption pattern it was not merely a normal failure.

Ideas?

Bloke sues Microsoft: Give me $600m – or my copy of Windows 7 back

To be honest

W7 x32 may be old now but the hardware itself will run x64 fine.

I used 10 for a while on two of my machines but it really does suck, hard.

Problems that on W7 are inconvenient on 10 are totally catastrophic.

OS should *never* hard crash when a USB device is unplugged safely or otherwise.

Flaky firmware and user rights to repair

Flaky firmware and user rights to repair

Hi.

I am in the very unfortunate situation of having a "lemon" Freesat box which randomly crashes normally in the middle of a long film etc.

It has been used more than usual (ie on for 5-6 hours at a time) but not my fault.

Symptoms: can't get "Dave", several other Freesat channels and sometimes won't come out of standby and runs hot (45C+) also external hard drive never worked to the extent that it picked up the drive and tried to format then failed miserably.

Retailer claims that the drive "isn't big enough".. Uh, WTF?

I tried to update the firmware according to manufacturer instructions but nothing works, can't even get it to recognize any pendrive plugged in. Batteries in remote are brand new and tested.

Suspect it might be hardware but it was discounted a lot (down from £109 to £94) so it could have been an older model which never got updated

Is there any legal recourse I can take to force H*m*x into releasing a patch, as this is *really* annoying to effectively waste a week's salary on this junk.

Superconducting neural nets and sentient hardware

Superconducting neural nets and sentient hardware

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-nist-superconducting-synapse-piece-artificial.html

Seems that in 2017 there was a similar discovery, but using light propagation in place of resistance changes directly between large populations of artificial neurons.

https://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.7.034013

Could this be a monumental step towards truly sentient machines?

It appears that Moore's Law has run out of steam and due to bugs like SPECTRE its now far too complex a problem to be resolved using conventional methods.

A possible construction might be a submicron (28nm) 2-D chip which is large enough not to be significantly affected by quantum effects, with the 3-D silicon/germanium funnel memristor arrays between them and interconnected through TSVs.

This would be "programmed" by the previously mentioned superconducting system which lays down the simpler pre-sentient pathways so that it does not have to start from scratch.

Heating would be far less of a problem due to the very high efficiency, as the whole brain might only need to run at <0.3V and areas not used can be turned off as needed.

Irony: a conventional laptop with a 3D-M array in place of its DDR4 chips might be able to organize and store information far more efficiently.

Perhaps even fix SPECTRE/Meltdown/etc on the fly by compensating for the performance loss incurred by breaking branch prediction.

Death notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018

Re. SPECTRE

No wonder Bitcoin went into full MELTDOWN.. investors probably realized that the current generation of miners had indeed hit the wall and they would not get any smaller without yields dropping to unacceptable levels. Last time I checked Bitmain had run into significant problems making the chips any smaller than 9nm and even Nvidia has decided to try and limit supply of their cards to miners.

https://forum.getpimp.org/topic/1196/nvidia-tries-to-limit-gpu-sales-to-cryptocurrency-miners

I would be concentrating on using current GPUs for deep learning and in fact there are commercial products available targeted at inference (cough Movidius /cough) and other custom chips for certain types of data but the more Tflops the better. A relevant piece of information is that the units in hospitals are often 2GB ancient cards due to the licensing and certification despite them being very primitive by modern standards.

Sick burn, yo: Google's latest Pixel 2 XL suffers old-skool screen singe

In related news

I am after some S6 (not edge) screen assemblies, also one for an S7.

Not bothered if the glass is cracked slightly or screen is burned to hell and back as I only want to get these working for development purposes for my SPECTRE/Meltdown patch.

If anyone has a spare panel for these please let me know as its really hard to develop code when you can't see the screen.

Obviously if someone can help I'd send them a copy of said patch for third party testing.

message to anarchy 2012 rat hotnail dot co drat uk

It gets worse: Microsoft’s Spectre-fixer wrecks some AMD PCs

My data points

Did fresh 10 install on Phenom X2/8GB 12800 DDR3L/C650D machine with brand new SSD.

So far it seems to be working fine but did notice that the damnable atibtmon.exe error is back after one round of patches.

Could there be a connection?

I have yet to try it on an older system as it is in pieces due to the lack of a working graphics card and my 40" monitor being tied up with fecking This Morning!

(cough multipath hack with 3D glasses so I can use the TV at the same time /cough)

My older system is a Core 2 Duo T7300 running Intel/W7 x32 so shouldn't be affected.

Also two netbooks both Intel Atom based.

This is why

If you use Windows always have a hot swap drive in reserve in case the system gets totally broken.

This got me out of trouble more than once when for no discernible reason a routine KB update hosed my system (black screen during startup).

Yet installing the same update on a fresh install then the hot swap drive worked fine.

Maybe undetected malware/drive corruption/etc ?

SPECTRE/Meltdown

SPECTRE/Meltdown

Hi all.

Can anyone help please?

I have some ideas for a patch on Android devices abandoned due to age (ie Note 4) as discussed it should work by flushing unused areas of the chip with PRNGs effectively dummy data to prevent an exploit using speculative execution or other memory overflow variants exfiltrating data.

This is mainly because it seems a shame to simply discard hardware, a slight drop in efficiency would be a small price to pay and I can probably optimize it for Space Paranoids (tm) mode or just basic usage.

Ironically a BTc/Monero/etc miner by design might be a good starting point as it would pick up certain problems so a given core or cores can be "blacklisted" before it brings down the entire system.

Any ideas?

At last, someone's taking Apple to task for, uh, not turning on iPhone FM radio chips

Re: It's an age thing.

Is this why Oakleys used to say "Thermonuclear protection" ?

Everybody without Android Oreo vulnerable to overlay attack

How to fix this

We need to know, a choice between knackered data and "theoretical" risk isnt much of a choice is it?

Living in space basically shoves a warp drive into your blood stream

Re. infection

Actually I thought about this and it seems that part of the problem is that internal changes can be caused by a sterile (or very low bacteria) environment.

If so then simple custom probiotics might solve many issues, also using magnetic fields seems to help somewhat.

It may be that you only have to expose some of the body to gravitational acceleration and if so then this reduces needed field strength by an order of magnitude, within the range of permanent magnets.

Extreme laptop hacking

Extreme laptop hacking

Hi all.

Just finished my mod on the C650D, now using 44% of the CPU and no apparent slowdown.

Before it was throttling even at 19% load on the Phenom 2.

Mod: replace existing 0.4A with a 0.5A fan containing double the blades.

Had to do some plastic butchery and modify the casing with fragments of a broken Ipad screen light spreader as they were just the right thickness.

Now for the warp drive: can I mod the BIOS so it does the following.

1) replace fan table with something a bit less primitive

2) have it boot from the internal SD as well as HDD and "BIOSBoot" so if all disks are unreadable the laptop still runs somewhat and contains a failsafe that can rebuild even onto a totally wiped drive

3) backs up all FATs, etc to failsafe storage *2 so in the event of malware the drive can still be salvaged.

New York Police scrap 36,000 Windows smartphones

Re: Please tell me

M$ seem to be really good at backing the loser: Surface,Windows Phone, HD-DVD, etc.

On the flip side HD-DVD modules are perfect for hacking PCB etchers and other DIY uses and a good way to get into UV lasers.

I made a 3 output PSU from my external which was useful for about maybe 2 years.

Fans got "recycled" to fix a pricey monitor with a bad IC, if you kept it cool no glitches.

What they should do is rebrand not simply abandon the technology. HD-DVD is still used for archiving (security through obscurity?) and Surface tablets are finding medical applications as cheap HD screens for hospital use or so it seems.

Please tell me

These will just be securely wiped, and then reinstalled with custom firmware (abandoned = open source) and given to the needy? 36000 phones for the poor would go a long way.

I had this idea a while back as M$ did the same with Atom netbooks which still run Lubuntu perfectly well.

ASUS smoking hashes with 19-GPU, 24,000-core motherboard

AI

Methinks that GTX1080Ti would be better for playing Crysis.

Also how much faster are these specialized cards?

Nasty firmware update butchers Samsung smart TVs so bad, they have to be repaired

Bad chips!

I know why they broke: seems that the fault is a high density 8 pin flash chip similar to a laptop BIOS.

Problem seems to be that the timing is off and inadequate failsafes exist so portions of the memory are written incorrectly.

It was a trade-off between not having to wait for 1 hour+ for a "routine" update and having a bricked TV once in a while, usually it can be recovered but not this time.

Irony: reflashing 8 pin chips is quite simple with the right kit and I am working on a project to repair just this sort of failure using an internal "remote flash" rig that backs up firmware on the fly.

see this, someone else's project.

https://wiki.samygo.tv/index.php/UnBricking_TV_by_EEPROM_Reset

New project "Logan"

Re. Project Logan

Was reference to Logan St Clare.

aka Sliders.

I think this could work, at least for medical imaging and a compact MRI-like device that could image a sample several feet away with a superconducting magnet cooled with a closed cryocooler.

If higher temperature materials are feasible then a handheld "remote control" could actually scan for anomalies just like a real tricorder.

Ai breakthrough "could lead to 2018 Singularity"

Re. Skynet

Open letter at the moment about AI weapons.

But yes I think there needs to be a discussion about laws prohibiting certain types of "killer robots" certainly incorporating a version of Asimovs "Three Laws" from the get-go.

A robot should have the right to refuse a human order if in its own judgement the action would result in substantial loss of life and violate international law.

RE. Re.

I am aware that a lot of Kurzweil's writing is speculative science fiction, but up until maybe 2007 256GB on a fingernail was so ludicrous that people would question its existence by 2016.

The "wall" for memory chips was believed to be 4GB/in2 but this has since been revised.

Intriguingly my old Samsung Core 2 laptop seems to have a lot more processing power than first thought, those "wasted" 64 bit circuits are apparently being used despite running in 7 x32 mode.

Looks like this is why only 4GB is allowed, it would compromise the custom modded BIOS.

Once tried 7 x64 in error and it had issues, perhaps this has been fixed now?

The idea of using a quantum computer to "juice up" existing hardware is intriguing and worthy of further study.

Ai breakthrough "could lead to 2018 Singularity"

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/something-monumental-just-happened-computing-one-paid-hiesboeck?trk=mp-reader-card

Not overhyping this honest but my 2016 estimate of 21/2/18 at 7.02 am for the Singularity might not be entirely inaccurate.

I have actual data here suggesting that a quantum computer could achieve some level of self awareness in conventional non-quantum hardware (eg DDR3/4) and this model shows that mapping out the memory to locate regions of maximum beneficial instability would work.

A conventional annealing setup probably wouldn't be enough, this would require the 50 qubit system but still a significant advance if the GTX1080Ti cards with 12GB RAM were used.

32 cards giving a total of 384GB RAM and running at maximum output would have the same intelligence as a two year old in certain tasks such as image recognition.

The DDR4 modification of address line randomization is a non issue as the algorithm is not in fact random but by design entirely predictable and I am in the process of modifying the system to work around it.

Those Movidius AI "sticks" might also be handy for a lower budget version as they are based loosely on Bitcoin miners which only recently became public knowledge and explains >8 month delay on release.

In this case 4 1080Ti's would be needed with a custom rig containing two AMD 1950X 18 core chips and 2C/4S per node, maxed out at 128GB RAM.

Hacking for fun and profit

Hacking for fun and profit

Hi all.

Has anyone else figured out creative uses for off-the-shelf electronics?

Current projects include:

Hacking BT headsets to turn them into UARTs

Modifying infrared thermometers, scales etc to add the missing USB output

Hacking TVs to enable features such as selective backlight (ie stealth mode) and

retrofitting LEDs to CCFL models, RGB backlight for high contrast/3D mode.

Capacity testing/reconditioning of batteries using old PS4 hard disks as a dummy load

add your project(s) here

Where there's smoke there's a Galaxy Note: Refurbished Model 4 batteries recalled

Re: Re. NFC

Yup, was aware of 4.0

The reason I think they used NFC is that most older phones do not work with BT tiles, their intended market seems to be holidaymakers who often use (in many cases) burner phones so if they get damaged/lost then its inconvenient but not catastrophic.

We had this discussion at the Hackathon last year!

The right time to drink coffee

4am

Peak for me, I have no idea why.

Maybe due to some circadian clock issue, it is hard to know.

Cancel your summer trip to nearby Proxima b. No chance of life, room service, say boffins

New physics

We don't yet know exactly how Jupiters field is generated.

It is possible that a super earth might have a far stronger magnetic field than Earth for the same reason; as the geodynamo could contain radically different mixes of metals. Earth has nickel iron but it could just as easily be nickel iron cobalt, or have elements heavier than uranium which are even more effective for generating a truly monstrous field.

I did some preliminary calculations suggesting that an earth sized planet is far below the minimum size for an effective field but suggesting we might be the exception rather than the rule.

in fact aliens might ignore us because their astronomers are concentrating on systems with large rocky planets with a certain key metallic signature in the stars spectrum.

Brit uni builds its own supercomputer from secondhand parts

Re. Pi

Probnably better off using the PCBs from relatively recent (eg Note 4) smartphones with cracked screens, they are quite a bit faster than a Pi 3 for the same or less power usage and can be substantially improved with a little heatsinking.

I tested this with an S4 Mini and S3 Neo, both power up with the screen unplugged and USB available so there shouldn't be any problems here.

Irony: that "old" smartphone is actually 24* as powerful than those early Pentium 133 machines and added bonus is that its onboard Wifi/Bluetooth can often be repurposed for intra-node communications.

Lack of range is not an issue and transmit power can be turned right down so the chips don't overheat.

Forget Iran and North Korea. Now there's another uranium source

Intriguing

Certainly fits the data, though the catch is no black holes smaller than maybe 3.8M0 have been seen.

Yet.

Would the hypothesis work with micro-black holes as you might see at an advanced state of decay ie maybe a Jupiter's mass or less?

Flash fryers have burger problems: You can't keep adding layers

possible

Maybe. I did wonder if this might get around interconnect issues, provide chip power using 13.56 MHZ around the edge on each chip then offset chips similar to how microsd are made. Advantage is a bad shorted chip can simply be ignored not doom the whole tsv stack!

Would you let cops give your phone a textalyzer scan after a road crash?

Re: Bye-bye phone :-(

How would this happen?

My theory: motherboards are removed, cloned and wiped then sold online via the lowest bidder months later.Meanwhile barred boards are purchased online, tested and refitted.

Plausible deniability, and PROFIT!!!!

Think about this for a minute: it takes less than 10 minutes per phone and forensics works both ways.

Tools are available to clone phones and this has to be done anyway, so why give back the evidence that might be used later in court?

You really think that all the locked boards online are wasted? Hell NO!

Amazing new algorithm makes fusion power slightly less incredibly inefficient

Re. Hmm...

Patent pending:

"Method of generating fusion energy by utilizing closed timelike curves to control plasma instability"

Essentially a souped up version of active feedback.

If you know where and when the plasma is going to buckle then applying the counterforce before the event will prevent it occuring in the first place.

The interesting thing is that time travel in the sense of a closed system is actually consistent with thermodynamics, if the information never leaves that system.

So a time machine in an impermeable box is feasible, and quantum computers can be viewed as a time machine that sends back its "answer" to a short time after switch-on.

Boffins with frickin' laser beams chase universe's mysterious trihydrogen

Ball lightning?

Just a thought, H3 might actually be the missing link here.

Fancy fixing your own mobile devices? Just take the display off carefu...CRUNCH !£$%!

Re. stubborn phones

Changed USB port on an S3 Neo, though it charges the data pins do not work.

One thing I would like to see is genuine batteries available for older devices as these are getting hard if not impossible to find.

The nuclear launch button won't be pressed by a finger but by a bot

The thing which is going to kill us all

Is 9.6 miles across, travelling at 47,308 km/h.

Nikon snaps at Dutch, German rivals: You stole our chip etch lens tech!

Re. EUV

Interesting to note that we've gotten this far without EUV kit, 7nm is still pretty impressive.

The number of machine learning steps needed to make a chip work at all with such small features is 4 or more generations, essentially we have long since (around 2002) lost the ability to know exactly why a given transistor goes where, or why a chip that works fine at 4.2 GHz fails either side of this.

I did recall that some newer chips are pre-screened at the factory using X-rays, presumably this is for aerospace and .mil applications where reliability has to be absolute.

Also recall that the newest memory is only ever powered up after all the chips have been assembled into a stack (see earlier) and often the yield can be as low as 60%.

That 256GB uSD has monstrous overprovisioning equal to 320GB, in fact 320GB isn't even state of the art now and getting the yields up was the reason 200GB and 256GB were spaced by five months.

Script kiddies pwn 1000s of Windows boxes using leaked NSA hack tools

Ah Hell NO!

The worst thing is that thanks to this my volume of SPAM just went up two orders of magnitude.

Yes airgaps work. So does Epoxy in the USB, headphone and unused keyboard ports, seems some folks worked out how to use an SDR and powerful ultra-precise narrow band radio transmitter to fake out the signals PC is expecting from a PS2 keyboard *without touching the machine" thus negating airgaps.

Devised a defence though, put 560 ohm resistor between data/clk lines and GND, then epoxy over that.

I did work out that modulating the CPU clock can send data at about 100bps, in fact you can get better than that by using mutilevel data ie 0,1,2,3 being different CPU core usage patterns and thus more/less clock speed.

The VGA hack has been known since way back, similar principles to the "Evil Maid Attack" where someone plugs in a device into a live machine's exposed HDMI or VGA port that then runs attack tools to pwn the host, in less than 24 seconds.

Fix here is problematic, I resorted to cutting the ID lines and modwire in a written e2prom chip with the most common monitors pre-coded via keyboard shortcuts seems to work so no data can be infiltrated in this way.

PACK YOUR BAGS! Boffins spot Earth-size planet most likeliest yet to harbor alien life

Not always

There seems to be a correlation between large planets in close orbits, and fewer flares.

My estimates suggest that in fact the presence of interacting gravitational and magnetic fields causes the solar turbulence to be different and results in lots of small less harmful flares sort of like how the Moon prevents serious seismic activity.

Also a sufficiently powerful geomagnetic field might make all the difference, the field from a "Super-Earth" might *just* be enough to permit complex life.

Life will find a way. (Jeff Goldblum)

I did wonder about whether intelligence might have evolved there, 200MYa Earth was very different so the possibility of complex non-mammalian life is feasible.

They really might be small, grey and smart with chromatophores to give them natural cloaking abilities, large eyes adapted to the increased infrared and all sorts of other features.

Perhaps Betty and Barney Hill got it wrong, the "Grey" homeworld is in fact a planet much like this one.

Intelligent robots can walk the walk – but if they can't talk the talk, we can't get along

Re. funding

Same here. I have some good ideas, but am unable to test due to lack of parts and funding.

Interestingly the problem is more that as the chips become more complicated (eg TPUs) the power consumption goes up exponentially despite reductions to 11nm and other such changes designed to mitigate the laws of physics.

Perhaps what is needed is a simpler chip, sure use 28nm as its a well established process but design the processors so that there are a massive 3-D array of hyper-connected chips with a quantum clock that synchronizes the entire network (eg optics) so each APU is indeed working in synchrony with the others.

If this is not done the cemi field analog can't form, this was in fact tested here and it works even on a 2009 vintage laptop with DDR3 RAM under specific conditions of temperature and supply voltage with the noise from the CPU regulator under low battery power being the missing link.

Evidently the problem is that typical RAM is designed not to interfere with itself in this way so the only way to get anything to happen is overclock it well past the point where the machine normally fails to boot, then cool the RAM down until machine starts up reliably.

Re. Obligatory

"My logic is undeniable..."