All articles tagged with #alien communication
The article discusses the 50th anniversary of the Golden Record, a space probe record launched in 1977 to communicate with potential extraterrestrial life, and how it inspired a modern artistic project called Earth Rising, which features contemporary works reflecting on humanity's current state, hopes, and fears.
The Lexington Convention and Visitors Bureau beamed an interstellar travel advertisement into space in late October, inviting aliens to visit Lexington, Kentucky, in a bid to attract more Earthly visitors. The message, transmitted using a powerful laser aimed at the TRAPPIST-1 star system, included symbols representing prime numbers, chemical symbols for water and ethanol, and images of Lexington's iconic bluegrass landscape. While the chances of achieving first contact are slim, experts praised the project's emulation of the 1974 Arecibo message and noted that TRAPPIST-1 is considered a promising target for potential extraterrestrial life.
Scientists are exploring the possibility of communicating with extraterrestrial beings, considering the unique ways in which they may have evolved to communicate. While animal communication can provide some insights, human language is considered to be an open-ended system that can express a wide range of concepts. The Cambridge Institute of Exo-Language (CIEL) has been established to study how we might communicate with intelligent extraterrestrial beings and how their language and intelligence could differ from our own. Efforts are also being made to send messages into space through organizations like Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Meti), with the hope of receiving a reply and establishing communication with potential extraterrestrial civilizations. The decoding and understanding of alien language remains uncertain until contact is made.