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How To Talk To Aliens

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-a-phone-home-joke dept.

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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  1. Uhm... by n9uxu8 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Don't send picture communications...the aliens will never understand it...we're too different...

    Instead, send a brief dissertation on our computer logic and a copy of our biggest program ever....

    You can be sure them clever aliens will understand that! ...step away from the chessboard, sir...time to hit the park and breath some fresh air....

    Dave