Planet Rot sends a message to Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti

Joe Davis is an artist and a research affiliate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the mid-1980s, he became concerned that no image of humans had been sent into space representing the details of human genitals or reproduction. So he led a project to transmit the sounds of vaginal contractions towards neighbouring star systems. To do so, he recorded the vaginal contractions of ballet dancers. The messages were to be sent from MIT's Millstone Hill Radar to Epsilon Eridani, Tau Ceti and two other stars. However, only a few minutes of footage was transmitted before the US air force, which had jurisdiction over the facility, shut the project down. Nevertheless, the vaginal sounds that were sent will have reached Epsilon Eridani in 1996 and Tau Ceti in 1998. It is unclear what sort of reply we should expect.

It's all Larry Summers' fault!!!

What's an SM in math? Bitching about grad school: I loved doing math when I was an undergraduate. I was a top honors student at Berkeley. I also ran the math club there, which was fun. When I got to MIT, it was a lot different. No one was teaching anybody anything in the class. It was sort of like, you've already read it and we're just going to remind you. I don't know if that's always the case in math graduate school, or maybe it's just MIT. And [the subject matter] was just many, many orders of magnitude more inaccessible [than in college]. You don't say.

Buy, Rot, buy!

No shit, no brainer...

MIT employs the invisible hand which typically has predictive modeling-like results: e.g., people tend to do shit for money. Does one need to go to MIT to figure this out? Well, at least MIT doesn't dole out the superfluous in the form of degrees.