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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It’s just ‘hear say’. According to the above headline.
IOW, not real.
You really don’t think Elon Musk is human do you?
As an aside, when the article says, "Dr Alexander Rehding, professor of music at Harvard University, said humans had still not learned how to translate animal communication," I would like to point out that my pets talk to me all the time. I talk to them too, but getting them to agree with me is where the difficulty lies.
Next stage of the plandemic-climate change psyop to get the peasants to trade their freedom for imaginary safety courtesy of our benevolent globalist overlords.
More so than some other people in the public eye.
I’ve been ready for years, my tagline is about 20 yrs old at this time.
The one thing that separates Musk from a lot of other such nerds is that he seems able to grow from his many mistakes.
Another thing about Musk is that he seems compulsive about staying realistic while also letting his mind wander to all the possibilities.
I’ve just noticed my tagline is gone.
It was “ I like to welcome our new overlords, say Heloo to my little friend”.
So if the globalists start to offer safety, call their bluff.
My tagline appears to be gone now, it was” I’d like to welcome our new overlords, say Hello to my little friend”.
I’m thinking maybe the aliens have already mastered communication with us. We just need to listen when they talk.
Yup. Sure looks that way.
Aliens ate your tagline?
I've heard they're deaf. 🙂
I guess “man made climate change” no longer scare the people so let go with alien invasion from outer space. It is something that can not be proven (or unproven) but will require billions of dollars to prepare for. /s
I agree. They don’t come in peace.
Halp me...I need more coffee.;-)
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