fred (10/20/82)
Alone? Of course we are alone. Listen there are over 100 billion stars in our galaxy and over a billion galaxies in the known universe, yet in all of that there is only one of each of us. That is what I call being alone. Fred
fraley (11/05/82)
The problem ofpossible intelligent societies whcih continues to bother me is what we would do once we found one. How would we communicate with them in any meaningful way? On earth, our intelligence is supposedly dwarfed by that of whales, yet we hav not yet managed to communicate with them. Sure, we have managed to train them to do our wishes, but we havn't figured out how to find out what is important to them, how they percieve the world, what makes them happy, or even if they relate to the notion of happiness. We don't know their perception of their society, or their perception of us. While they are not a technological society (as we think of technology), there is some suggestion that we would have difficulty communicating with any other intelligent race which we might encounter. Anyone have any ideas on how such communication would be established? Would it be appropriate to try to develop such skills by trying to communicate with the race from "aquatic space"?