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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. Re:We Need an Intergalactic Fleet by ccharles · · Score: 1, Troll

    We should be attracting aliens by producing a stable intergalactic fleet of killer robot ships. They will want to trade with us if we have heavy firepower. It's a status thing, really.

    You must be American.

    *duck*

  2. Let's use the good ol' tested method by HawkingMattress · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just send them a goatse link

  3. Re:And what if... by voidware · · Score: 0, Troll
    What if they're a communist society? Certainly they shall be disgusted at our capitalist ways.


    I always thought that we'd be looking for advanced civilizations.

    Brandon