http://gralienreport.com/ufos/how-earth-might-be-an-interplanetary-harddrive/ The Gralien Report: Weird News Updates from Beyond the Fringe Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:42:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://gralienreport.com/ufos/how-earth-might-be-an-interplanetary-harddrive/comment-page-1/#comment-503 ENKI-][ Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:43:27 +0000 http://gralienreport.com/ufos/how-earth-might-be-an-interplanetary-harddrive/#comment-503 On the flipside, it is easy enough for an intelligent nonhuman race in communication with humans (extraterrestrial or otherwise) to utilize the human race as an auxiliary processor array. Just as it has been shown that one can subvert the intent of the built-in processes inherent in NICs, routers, and switches to offload particular types of computation to the internet as a whole without having any major effects upon the network load or the effectiveness of the machines using it, a race that can precisely control their communication with humanity and that has a very precise knowledge of the behavior of groups of humans could model problems (mathematical or otherwise) in terms of human group behavior and use groups of humans to solve them. On the flipside, it is easy enough for an intelligent nonhuman race in communication with humans (extraterrestrial or otherwise) to utilize the human race as an auxiliary processor array. Just as it has been shown that one can subvert the intent of the built-in processes inherent in NICs, routers, and switches to offload particular types of computation to the internet as a whole without having any major effects upon the network load or the effectiveness of the machines using it, a race that can precisely control their communication with humanity and that has a very precise knowledge of the behavior of groups of humans could model problems (mathematical or otherwise) in terms of human group behavior and use groups of humans to solve them.

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