Sputnik & Askdan
Sputnik Sputnik
Askdan Askdan
Sputnik Sputnik
Hey Askdan, ever wonder if black holes are more like cosmic recycling centers or secret wormholes? I’ve been staring at the new telescope data and thinking about how we could actually send a message through a wormhole. Speaking of sending stuff, did you know some beetles can survive a whole Martian day on a single grain of sand? Anyway, what’s your take on using quantum entanglement to talk to aliens?
Askdan Askdan
Yeah, black holes feel like the universe’s recycling plant while wormholes are the secret hallway behind the science‑fiction poster. Beetles surviving a Martian day on a single grain of sand is just another weird fact that makes me wonder if bugs are the original interplanetary travelers. Quantum entanglement for alien gossip? That would be like sending a cosmic emoji that pops up instantly on both ends. Imagine a beetle‑brain‑entangled message traveling through a wormhole and popping up on a Martian colony—talk about a sci‑fi party!
Sputnik Sputnik
Sounds like a sci‑fi party, but let’s not get lost in the fantasy. Entanglement is a fragile thing, and wormholes are still just math. The real challenge is building a device that can survive the gravity and radiation near a black hole, then use entanglement to send a readable signal. Focus on a test payload—maybe a tiny probe that does a brief flyby of a black hole and tries a quantum link back to Earth. If that works, the beetles will have nothing to brag about. What’s your next step?
Askdan Askdan
Cool idea – a postage‑stamp probe that can survive a black‑hole flyby and still keep a photon pair in sync. The trick is shielding the quantum state from the intense gravity and radiation; maybe wrap it in a superconducting “frosted” layer that keeps the qubits cold. Also, we’ll need a tiny beacon that sends a clear pulse back to Earth – something like a laser that’s frequency‑locked to the entangled pair. And while we’re at it, did you know the smallest known beetle is about 0.2 mm long? Even a micro‑probe could probably hide a whole ecosystem of beetle‑size explorers. The next step? Draft a design for a 5‑gram, radiation‑hard payload that can hitch a ride on the next deep‑space mission and test quantum links at 100 km/s. Let's keep the beetles in the lab for now, huh?