Posted on 11/03/2022 5:24:26 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The Royal Society held a Scientific Discussion Meeting on "The detection of extra-terrestrial life and the consequences for science and society" in 2010 but there has been no global agreement on how to handle contact.
Learning how to decipher an alien language or method of communication is likely to be one of the major hurdles that experts will need to consider.
In a recent BBC documentary First Contact: An Alien Encounter, scientists admitted it may never be possible to understand what aliens are trying to tell us.
Dr Alexander Rehding, professor of music at Harvard University, said humans had still not learned how to translate animal communication.
“Whales are a really good study, and they are in some ways the closest thing that we have to aliens here on Earth,” he said.
“Whales are highly intelligent, and their environment is entirely different from ours. The patterns that we hear are purely patterns that we recognise as music, repeated patterns.
“It is a form of vocalising but we don't really know what it's for. Is it music, is it a language? What does it mean? It can give us a sense of how difficult the task at hand is.”
Dr Elliott admitted that deciphering an alien language would be tricky without some kind of extraterrestrial Rosetta Stone.
“Nevertheless, much can be gleaned, without this. Language for intelligent species has a structured system that is multi-layered and has internal structure," he said.
“By identifying any patterns within the signal and calculating how these patterns interact, we will then be able to know if it passes this initial surface structure test for displaying evidence of being language-like.
“If so, we will then be able to move on to identifying internal structures displayed by all known intelligent species.
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I can’t transliterate my cat’s meows, but I know what she wants by how she is meowing.
She has three distinct meows for supper, attention, and outside.
Homophones are of the devil.
Greta Thunberg is going to be revealed as an alien. Look at her. It’s obvious she’s not of this earth. We will all be told to heed her rules, or perish.
I’m thinking maybe the aliens have already mastered communication with us. We just need to listen when they talk
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People like to imagine (hope) that ‘aliens’ will be benevolent, or at least some sort of objective/scientific/aloof-observing sort of neutral, but just because they are not human, nor perhaps even from this planet, does not mean that they are going to be devoid strong convictions, judgements, or motives.
Just because we would not be able to comprehend their ‘communication’ does not mean they wouldn’t act upon us. Almost all communication is more than some passive transfer of information. It is almost always meant to convey some sort of change.... a change in state, in action, in behavior, in compliance, or as an update or correction.
In other words, don’t expect them to necessarily sit around and wait for pongs to their pings. It may not be a dialogue at all.
where is the mother ship?
is there a bag limit?
yes they are here
they have infiltrated
and are trying to convince us that using natural resources is a bad thing
They are not aliens, they are demonic. Do your own research and your eyes will be opened.
A 9mm Luger pistol is the best defense weapon against space aliens. It was once determined that the 9mm Luger was more effective than the .45 Auto when tested with clumps of gelatin used to simulate human flesh. And since space aliens are made of Jello, that’s a good thing to keep in mind.
Capturing that scientific Star Trek movie vibe... the beautiful leviathan.
They still need a full recovery, what a beautiful mammal absolutely magnificent.
I've researched this UFO stuff since the very early 1980s, and have gone very deeply into the subject. They are not demons. That is merely a primitive and superstitious reaction.
Look at it this way: They have been around for a very long time, and nothing has befallen our civilization that can be blamed on them. The demons are indeed with us. They inhabit liberals, and most certainly the leaders of most governments. It can easily been shown that those demons have caused great harm to our civilization.
If they are here and remain undetectable from us, it means they are much, much more intelligent than we are...
In fact, they probably look at us kinda like we look at an ant farm in a glass cage...
In fact, they probably look at us kinda like we look at an ant farm in a glass cage...
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That is partially what I was suggesting in my post. They are probably not going to look at “communicating” with us like we hope they would. You’re not going to have a dialogue with an ant in a glass house, although you might interact with it, and your motives are not likely to align with theirs at that moment, even if your goals are to help them.
If Nancy Pelosi is any indication, they’ve been here a while.
They are nere hear?
No! Their over thear.
I agree. They don’t come in peace.
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Why?
If they have the advanced technology to get here, they would have the potential to destroy us in the blink of an eye. Consider the advance in our weapons technology in the past 200 years.
Perhaps in God’s wisdom, he created the vast gulf between solar systems so that by the time a species achieved the technical capacity to travel vast distances, they also achieved a higher level, and less barbaric, intellectual capability.
Worrying aliens are some sort of demons bent on destruction is more of a mirror into our own level of advancement, or lack thereof, as a species. Humans are an incredibly violent species who routinely slaughter their own by the millions.
Face it folks, aliens are not sending us their best.
Face it folks, aliens are not sending us their best aliens.
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