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Space Forum / Space Policy / July 2009Communicate with aliens?
We can't even communicate with dolphins or whales. We can't even communicate with other humans. How would we ever be able to communicate with aliens? > We can't even communicate with dolphins or whales. We can't even > communicate with other humans. How would we ever be able to communicate > with aliens? Actually, we do communicate to varying degrees of success with other humans and many animals. A few primates have been taught a genuine vocabulary and have demonstrated an ability to synthesize sentences describing their perceptions of objects and events. It's not clear whether we can communicate with certain cetaceans--their minds aren't wired the same ways. Time will tell if we can learn their thoughts and teach them ours. But a genuinely alien species is likely to be a difficult challenge. We'd better hope they will want to communicate with us as well. --Damon >> We can't even communicate with dolphins or whales. We can't even >> communicate with other humans. How would we ever be able to communicate >> with aliens? > > But a genuinely alien species is likely to be a difficult challenge. > We'd better hope they will want to communicate with us as well. It might be. I think the current theory of starting with Math and building from there as a language may work. An alien species capable of communicating with us (via radio or getting here in person) has almost certainly mastered math and physics. From there we can build a fairly healthy start to a language. We may never get to concepts like 'love' but who knows. > --Damon  SignatureGreg Moore Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC. On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:16:26 -0400, Greg D. Moore \(Strider\) wrote: >>> We can't even communicate with dolphins or whales. We can't even >>> communicate with other humans. How would we ever be able to [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > there we can build a fairly healthy start to a language. We may never > get to concepts like 'love' but who knows. Most Aliens speak Western Hemisphere Spanish, but many don't speak it very well. Just sit them in front of a computer with the English version of Rosetta Stone, and they will pick it up quickly. > We can't even communicate with dolphins or whales. We can't even > communicate with other humans. How would we ever be able to communicate > with aliens? The use of a visual spectrum of light would be more than sufficient, especially interplanetary wise. ~ BG |
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