"Cracking the Code: Communicating with Extraterrestrials in Their Own Language"
Originally Published 2 years ago — by BBC.com
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.