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When a chemical
signal
washes up on one side, it triggers the cell to expand its shape on that side, because the cell is constantly touching and tugging at the environment.
Somehow in tickling our eardrum that transmits energy down our hearing bones, which get converted to a fluid impulse inside the cochlea and then somehow converted into an electrical
signal
in our auditory nerves that somehow wind up in our brains as a perception of a song or a beautiful piece of music.
And those treatments would disrupt the interaction between the fungus and the plant either by blocking the plant
signal
or the fungal reception system which receives those signals.
It is a
signal
broadcasting system.
That is the
signal
broadcasting system sending out the stop
signal.
It's the direct
signal
being recorded from my head, rendered in real time.
The green and red bars show that same
signal
displayed by frequency, with lower frequencies here and higher frequencies up here.
So we can put people in an MRI scanner and have them do a little video game like the one I showed you and look for this
signal.
A satellite tag only works when the air is clear of the water and can send a
signal
to the satellite.
It has been used to
signal
early warning in advance of weather-related disasters.
When a car receives a radio signal, it's processed by software.
That software has to receive and decode the radio signal, and then figure out what to do with it, even if it's just music that it needs to play on the radio, and that software that does that decoding, if it has any bugs in it, could create a vulnerability for somebody to hack the car.
That
signal
was so strong, it could only have been produced by 10 trillion tons of water buried in the sediment, collected over millions and billions of years by the impact of asteroids and comet material.
And that idea was that the small intestine of a pig, if you threw away all the cells, and if you did that in a way that allowed it to remain biologically active, may contain all of the necessary factors and signals that would
signal
the body to heal itself.
The good life is a life where design is important because somebody obviously took the time and spent the money for that kind of well-designed chair; where tradition is important, because this is a traditional classic and someone cared about this; and where there is something as conspicuous consumption, where it is OK and normal to spend a humongous amount of money on such a chair, to
signal
to other people what your social status is.
All right, so the bottom line is this: Because of the increase in speed, and because of the vast amount of habitable real estate in the cosmos, I figure we're going to pick up a
signal
within two dozen years.
I mean, even with two dozen years, you open up your browser and there's news of a signal, or you get a cup of coffee.
This is 1997, and this is a photo I made at about 3 o'clock in the morning in Mountain View here, when we were watching the computer monitors because we had picked up a
signal
that we thought, "This is the real deal."
And I think there's a lesson in that, and that lesson is that if we pick up a signal, the media, the media will be on it faster than a weasel on ball bearings.
The third thing that it might tell you is somewhat vague, but I think interesting and important, and that is, if you find a
signal
coming from a more advanced society, because they will be, that will tell you something about our own possibilities, that we're not inevitably doomed to self-destruction.
It happens to some of our phyletic cousins, because if you're a monkey, and you look at another monkey, and that monkey has a higher hierarchy position than you, and that is considered to be a
signal
or threat, well, you are not going to be alive for long.
And then think about this: Why can't I get a cell phone
signal
in San Francisco?
For some time now, it's been known that if you pay attention to the carrier phase of the GPS signal, and if you have an Internet connection, then you can go from meter level to centimeter level, even millimeter-level positioning.
But if you send in a fake GPS signal, another peak pops up, and if you can get these two peaks perfectly aligned, the tracking points can't tell the difference, and they get hijacked by the stronger counterfeit signal, with the authentic peak getting forced off.
But how does context
signal?
Are you not afraid with all these technologies that are going to track down any statement the politicians are going to make on certain issues, are you not afraid that this is going to be a very strong
signal
to politicians to repeat their positions, even the very wrong positions, because consistency is going to be more important than common sense?
The
signal
was the same, the background noise was the same.
They were prescribed very widely because heart attacks are a very common thing, and it took so long for us to find out that these drugs also caused an increased rate of death that before we detected that safety signal, over 100,000 people died unnecessarily in America from the prescription of anti-arrhythmic drugs.
But it was also the
signal
that capped the use, or overuse, of energy-consuming devices.
So there's no more
signal
for us to tell us to stop.
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