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The 'universal language' that could let us speak to aliens: Researchers reveal the best way to communicate with extraterrestrial life
UK Daily Mail ^ | 01/12/2026 | William Hunter

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: dfg; epigraphyandlanguage; fakescience; gilligansisland; honeybee; honeybees; newagenonsense; sciencefantasy; takemetoyourleader
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To: DFG

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.


21 posted on 01/12/2026 10:09:09 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: algore; Fungi
>>>let alone trees or fungi

FReeper Fungi seems to manage okay.

22 posted on 01/12/2026 10:09:54 AM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: DFG

Don’t we still have that large light organ in eastern wyoming?


23 posted on 01/12/2026 10:10:26 AM PST by posterchild
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To: DFG

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.


24 posted on 01/12/2026 10:10:58 AM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: DFG

I guess Jazz Hands only work when the listener has at least one hand.


25 posted on 01/12/2026 10:14:27 AM PST by lee martell
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To: DFG

If this succeeds, perhaps one days we can have a breakthrough explaining simple concepts to leftists.


26 posted on 01/12/2026 10:14:31 AM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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To: DFG

Oh, you never saw a bee on a candy cane because honey (slurp slurp) is sweeter.


27 posted on 01/12/2026 10:21:22 AM PST by GingisK
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To: DFG
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology sends a message in bee language ----

"Bee" sure to increase our research budget and professorial salaries!

28 posted on 01/12/2026 10:21:34 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: DFG

Math as the universal language?

No kidding.

Stated every decade since the 60s.

The voyager space probe has communications that use mathematics.


29 posted on 01/12/2026 10:29:34 AM PST by Chickensoup
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To: for-q-clinton

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


30 posted on 01/12/2026 10:33:29 AM PST by datricker (Go Trump/Vance! )
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To: DFG

Just tell demons “begone”, and pray to God to keep them away!


31 posted on 01/12/2026 10:35:46 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: algore

Or most EBT card users


32 posted on 01/12/2026 10:38:50 AM PST by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: DFG

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?”


33 posted on 01/12/2026 10:39:58 AM PST by lee martell
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To: DFG

34 posted on 01/12/2026 10:43:21 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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35 posted on 01/12/2026 10:45:13 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: DFG

Pulses of light in a mathematical pattern


36 posted on 01/12/2026 10:45:55 AM PST by plain talk
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To: All

Do the hokey pokey. Everyone understands that.


37 posted on 01/12/2026 10:56:37 AM PST by BipolarBob (These violent delights have violent ends.)
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To: DFG

It’s nice to be paid for “research” that no one can ever verify. Science!


38 posted on 01/12/2026 10:57:23 AM PST by miniTAX
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To: blackdog

Or just use pig Latin.


39 posted on 01/12/2026 11:00:42 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Magnum44


COW: Moo moo? (Why did you turn some of us inside out?)

ALIEN: Moo moo, moo. Moo. (Oh, that was Carl's fault. He's new.)

ALIEN CARL: Moo...moo...moo. (Yeah, sorry about that. My bad!)
40 posted on 01/12/2026 11:05:29 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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