CNN.com - Paris thinkers seek lingua franca with space aliens - March 27, 2002
Lessons to be learned from this:
Lesson one: Free time + Free Grant Money = strange shit.
Lesson two: useful information is not a biprotuct of unstructured thought
Lesson three: this is why we keep them busy teaching classes
I honestly think the only way we will be able to communicate with any alien race when we first contact them is through binary math. Any alien speicies, so long as it has a concept of a number system at all, will have come up with a binary number system of some sort. After that, we can progress to higher number bases ( 8, 16, etc) to what ever common denominator we can find between our two mathematical systems.
Once you have math, music, art, science, and eventually language will all follow. But MATH is going to be the key here.
Lessons to be learned from this:
Lesson one: Free time + Free Grant Money = strange shit.
Lesson two: useful information is not a biprotuct of unstructured thought
Lesson three: this is why we keep them busy teaching classes
I honestly think the only way we will be able to communicate with any alien race when we first contact them is through binary math. Any alien speicies, so long as it has a concept of a number system at all, will have come up with a binary number system of some sort. After that, we can progress to higher number bases ( 8, 16, etc) to what ever common denominator we can find between our two mathematical systems.
Once you have math, music, art, science, and eventually language will all follow. But MATH is going to be the key here.
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