How To Talk To Aliens

Frederic Friedel writes: "In their efforts to talk to alien civilizations human beings are currently engaged in sending pictures based on a rectangular array of dots, arranged from left to right and top to bottom. But is this stategy sound? For instance what if the aliens do not see in pictures at all, or if they think in vector graphics rather than bitmap? On ChessBase.com grandmaster John Nunn proposes sending them a trading machine instead."

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Re:how to talk to aliens

[tomstdenis]

Um, I'd say it's the otherway around. I was in France recently and you could easily point out [at the airport] the american gaggle [to be fair mostly teenagers] from the rest of the 200 people in the gate.

Totally loud, obnoxious and generally being little brats. And of course none of them would shut up during the ENTIRE EIGHT HOUR FLIGHT BACK....

"Jenifer!! OH JENIFER LOOK HERE!!! PAY ATTENTION!!! JENIFER!!!"

all I wanted todo is go up and start a hate crime or two...

Tom