Posted on 01/12/2026 9:52:47 AM PST by DFG
A group of Australian scientists have revealed how we may be able to learn to speak with aliens, and the answer is found right here on Earth.
If we do make contact with extraterrestrial life, it will likely require sending messages across vast distances of interstellar space.
The question for astronomers looking out for distant civilisations is how this communication would even be possible if we don't share a language.
Now, scientists say we might be able to develop a 'universal language' with an unlikely inspiration: The humble honeybee.
With six legs, five eyes, and a radically different social structure, scientists say that bees are among the closest things we have to aliens here on Earth.
Although humans and bees have wildly different brains, we have both evolved complex methods of communication and cooperation.
More importantly, new research shows that bees also have another very important thing in common with humans, which is the ability to do maths.
Based on this surprising discovery, scientists believe that mathematics could be the basis of a universal language.
One of the big problems for communicating with aliens is the enormous distances involved.
Given that the nearest star to the sun is 4.4 light-years away, it would take an absolute minimum of 10 years to send a message and get a reply.
This makes it impractical to try to learn an alien's language from scratch, like in the sci-fi movie Arrival.
Instead, scientists want to develop a universal language that can be understood by any species, regardless of how they communicate.
To find a solution to this puzzle, the researchers asked how we might communicate with one of the most alien-like species on Earth.
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Teach the scientists with a language they could understand: Fire them...cause their idea is completely presumptuous....
I bet that during breaks they ask each other what kind of tree they would be.
FReeper Fungi seems to manage okay.
Don’t we still have that large light organ in eastern wyoming?
Shouldn’t we test this technology in Minneapolis first? But then I guess you would need evidencec of intelligent life first to see if communicating with it is possible
.So never mind.
I guess Jazz Hands only work when the listener has at least one hand.
If this succeeds, perhaps one days we can have a breakthrough explaining simple concepts to leftists.
Oh, you never saw a bee on a candy cane because honey (slurp slurp) is sweeter.
"Bee" sure to increase our research budget and professorial salaries!
Math as the universal language?
No kidding.
Stated every decade since the 60s.
The voyager space probe has communications that use mathematics.
I don’t know about bees I think this what Euclids The elements is doing especially book 6 And 7. So this has already been done at least 3300 years ago or however long ago Euclid was around
Just tell demons “begone”, and pray to God to keep them away!
Or most EBT card users
It’s kind of hard to tell jokes by using mathematics.
Of course, there is that old standby; ‘How many times does ONE go into ONE, depending on the factors?”
Pulses of light in a mathematical pattern
Do the hokey pokey. Everyone understands that.
It’s nice to be paid for “research” that no one can ever verify. Science!
Or just use pig Latin.
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