#Alien communication

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Bonus 92: Xenolinguistics 👽

Someday, we might make contact with intelligent life beyond our planet. In that case, linguists want to be PREPARED. Enter the excitingly named field of Xenolinguistics!

In this bonus episode, Gretchen and Lauren get enthusiastic about how linguists might go about communicating with aliens. Drawing on highlights of the academic book "Xenolinguistics: Towards a Science of Extraterrestrial Language", we talk about how we'd actually go about trying to communicate with aliens. First of all, how can we know that a species is trying to communicate, and how can we convey our intentions in return? Secondly, do we have a shared context: are they on our planet, are we on theirs, or are we trying to decipher some sort of radio waves from afar? Third, what sort of medium are they using: visual, audio, and touch are all used for human languages and have some obvious advantages, but what about smell, electromagnetism, or electric pulses? Fourth, what could we learn about interspecies communication here on Earth from the African Grey Parrot, the prairie dog, and the vervet monkey? And finally, what other practical and ethical considerations do we need to remember based on current linguistic documentation projects? (The aliens may have multiple languages, only some of which are appropriate for outsiders to learn. And there are no spare AA batteries available in orbit around Alpha Centauri.) Listen to this episode about how linguists might go about communicating with aliens, and get access to many more bonus episodes by supporting Lingthusiasm on Patreon.

[christialoban2000blog]

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

To clarify this

Spires can’t really physically say hi, and don’t really have an external language other than low rumbles and whistles that they can make by contracting their shells and pushing out air.

The grimmos can and will help with quick external communication as they can more or less understand the rumbles due to a chemical in their brain that was given to them via a special jelly the spires will make for the babies to help communication

[aliencatart]

tablet borken </3

[satireinfo]

Do Aliens Exist?

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[bio-matter]

The alien message, decoded by Ken Chaffin and daughter Keli, is not static but is in motion as the white dots are arranged into the five amino acids. Ken Chaffin

Ken Chaffin and daughter Keli, who worked on decoding the message for nearly a year, uncovered the answer in June, the European Space Agency announced on October 22. Doing so required thousands of hours experimenting with various ideas and running mathematical simulations on a computer, the Chaffins told CNN.

[dogontwolegs]

floating at you silly style 👽

[bricktoygrapher]

Alien tourist 👽 📸

[vague-humanoid]

[woman-respecter]

everything that soft mras are telling women to do to “deradicalize” men can be done more effectively and safely by male allies.

[your-rutherfurr]

[dead-inside-demiboy]

Im sorry but being aromantic and/or asexual is such a beautiful, complex identity that opens up almost endless possibilities and interpretations about sex and romance and relationships and struggles within those,

and i will always absolutely LOATHE how both the outside and the aro/ace community itself have boiled these identities down to just "doesnt have sex" and "doesnt date"

[montesmithart]

Space doodle for Gangstersss 🌍

[zec-draws]

Hear me out guys 🫰 (thank you for the likes/reblogs💜)

[allwhiterain]

Tom Skerritt and Veronica Cartwright behind the scenes of Alien (1979) directed by Ridley Scott