You mean, they called the whale and the whale responded. Haven’t duck hunters been doing this since forever? I called my dog and he came and wagged his tail. I asked if he needed to go out and he yipped and went to the door. How is this different?
It’s different because these “scientists” are getting millions of YOUR tax dollars to conduct this “experiment”.
My dogs can spell.
I say to them “S - N - A - C - K” and they get really excited.
this is so idiotically childish....it’s actually less sophisticated than a duck call.
They prerecorded the sounds that whales make and then played them in the water. Of course the whales responded. They even admitted they might be playing back a recording of the whale that responded. They weren’t even “making the sound” (like the clever duck hunter). They were a mere conduit for sounds that whales already make.
Then to jump to the idiotically far fetched “this is how we will communicate with aliens” is maybe why we don’t “trust the science”.
No one even brought up the objection, “well have you recorded alien sounds yet?”.
This whole thing is ridiculous.
Plus, it was in one of the Star Trek movies. I think that’s where they got the alien idea.