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Is it even possible to build a beacon to announce we exist?
I would like to invent an INTERSTELLAR BEACON which can broadcast a signal that another civilization can detect.
I define a beacon as:
Must be omnidirectional.
Must be noticeable from the next spiral ...
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How to Communicate Something Secret to Many People in an Urban Fantasy World? [closed]
(Hi, this is my 1st question on here, so feel free to LMK if you need more info to help answer...)
In my story, the world is like ours, with the exception that there are some aliens who telepathically ...
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Universal Graphical Representation of a specific moment in time
Similar to how the famous Voyager "Pulsar Map" image was an attempt to define a given location in space in a way an alien culture could decode and find Earth -
How could you create an ...
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How do you establish commonly understood terms for "yes" and "no" with beings/aliens who communicate via a single medium/form of energy?
Their medium of communication could be any form of energy; the important point is that they only use one of these to communicate (not, like humans, both sound, sight, touch, etc).
If it's not possible,...
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Earth, Mirrored-Earth and aliens finding their location [closed]
There is our Earth. In a nearby galaxy there is Mirrored-Earth, much like our planet, with the exception that humans there are flipped left-right wise - so e.g. their hearts are mostly on the right ...
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How would the ancient aliens leave an instruction manual
In the future humans have used generational ships to explore the galaxy. It's taken centuries but we have finally found several habitable planets (they are not without their challenges of course).
On ...
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Could aliens communicate by excreting slime?
Bear with me :) The aliens in my story are gastropod-like entities and I would really like them to communicate through the mucus they excrete. What could such communication look like?
Preliminary ...
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What movies would you show aliens to show we are friendly? [closed]
Here is an idea that I wanted to play around with but unfortunately hit a brick wall with. Human explorers have found a less advanced intelligent technological species on a faraway planet. For the ...
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how could an alien species with modern technology communicate at long distances when their language is made up of sign language?
Let's say that these aliens have recently sent up a manned satellite into their orbit. Let's say these aliens mainly speak through sign language. How will these alien astronauts communicate with those ...
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How would an alien civilization transmit an SOS signal for other sentient beings to pick up on?
This question describes the kinds of signals sentient beings would transmit to let others know of their existence. The methods described are geared towards communicating the mere existence of ...
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Could an alien evolve to speak through its anus?
Humans can speak making precise movements of our tongues, teeth and vocal chords.
I want a sentient creature whose carnivorous mouth-parts are completely unsuitable for speech to be able to ...
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How do we make aliens interested in us? [closed]
We have finally found aliens!
From what we can observe, they are much more advanced than us (they probably have evolved millions of years before us!).
From our point of view, this experience is one ...
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How would you alert an alien crew that they are in imminent danger? [closed]
The setting: an alien crew has a shuttle landed on Earth in the 1980's. Their main ship is extremely damaged and beyond reach somewhere in the Milky Way. Their shuttle cannot escape Earth's atmosphere....
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How to keep a hive-mind from being jammed?
First post here so hopefully I'm asking this right. I checked to make sure there wasn't an answer out there already and didn't see anything, Either way...
I've got a species that can't communicate ...
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Trust and build an alliance with a high-developed and more powerful alien race [closed]
Let's assume humanity meets an alien race who are more powerful and high-developed. What would it take to ally with them and trust them?
Assuming we manage to communicate. Knowing that our leaders ...
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How can a race of eldritch abominations help humanity?
A society of your typical beings from beyond the veil of reality have recently encountered the bounderies of the realm humans call home. They studied our universe, via their own incomprehensible ...
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shared measurement units [closed]
How do individuals or small groups connected by a radio or similar connection, one or both having minimal tools agree on a system of measurement. Assume no communication problems. Do not assume ...
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Safe communication from Earth surface to orbit and back [closed]
I am an alien AI probe orbiting Earth. I know your civilization. I have been watching you for millennia. And today I decided to talk to you for the first time. How it happened is not important.
I ...
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How would an alien race that seeded life on a planet let their presence be known at a certain point in time?
Imagine an advanced alien race that seeded a planet with species capable of written communication. While the alien race is on the planet for a few generations it wants to remain mostly hidden from the ...
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Is it possible that aliens could be all around us in the form of waves? [closed]
Let's assume that, in the future, we are able to transfer our consciousness into a sort of virtual world (like in The Matrix). Now let's go one step further, and say that we have the ability to do ...
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Sunshade communication?
Imagine we have a shade launched in space that can be turned opaque and transparent. We can use it to communicate in binary, and mathematically sound extraterrestrials can pick up the pattern. Of ...
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Alien message: arrows and sequence order
This is part of my Alien Message series:
Recognizable natural numbers for alien message?
Alien message: “Invitation”
I recall a TV show featuring a discussion on the design of warning messages for ...
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Alien message: “Invitation”
A message arrives from several light years away. It is a complete prepared document, not a two-way communication.
The document can contain line-drawings and diagrams, both 2D and 3D, plus movies (a ...
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Recognizable natural numbers for alien message?
It’s rather cliché that an alien message would use a value like π (actually I expect it to be 2π because Earthlings are weird), but in my story the message which contains the bootstrap information for ...
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How many parts of speech are there, really?
Consider a conlang designed for an interstellar transmission to a recipient that will have to figure it out.
I’m thinking it will be invented for the purpose, formal, and rigorous. It will ...
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How can I communicate with a collective consciousness?
A world, I am building, had been flooded, causing a species of fire ant that makes ant rafts to evolve a collective behavior, ditching anthills and becoming an ant-hill (I'm not sorry). Over thousands ...
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What is the most efficient and safest way to communicate with an alien should first contact occur?
Recently when pondering the hypothetical scenario of first contact, the alien race we meet may have very different cultures, ethics, technologies, philosophies etc. to the point that whatever they ...
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How to differentiate alien voices apart? [closed]
One day Earth is visited by a >4th dimensional alien entities, they do not have a physical body and all we know is that they can cause the air around a person to vibrate at different pitches seeming ...
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What is the motivation for all advanced intelligent extraterrestrial alien races to mask their presence from the primitive human? [closed]
There are things that exists in the world which cannot be explained or proved nor disproved, numerous UFO sightings caught on tapes or stories retold by many eyewitnesses over the past decades seem to ...
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How would telepathy work without a common language?
An ethereal, higher dimensional entity assumed human form and came to present-day Earth for a visit; this entity could not speak human languages nor possessed any sort of universal translator. It ...
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Is it possible to communicate through DNA?
Alternatively, could DNA be a language (the normal coding that exists within DNA to tell it what to build) that is capable of telling us anything.
This question is based off of this article about ...
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How can humans and aliens reliably communicate?
Let's say that humanity has started a galactic empire, one of the things the embassy of Earth must do is communicate with a variety of alien species.
The Vogavlüeans - The language of these ...
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Aliens are on their way. What can cause them to not understand us?
This question continues the premise set in my previous question, but do not worry, I will try to tell the most important bits:
There is intelligent alien race about 30 light years away from us. They ...
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Can we have a meaningful cultural exchange with aliens if we never meet?
Humans have finally made contact with aliens! We've just received a signal from a civilization somewhere in the Orion Nebula. It contains a message from their civilization, talking a bit about their ...
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How will language work without sounds or body language?
I'm picturing a specie of intelligent aliens evolving on a familiar yet different Earth-like environment, these beings are capable of empathy and shares many similar psychological traits with us human....
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How would two alien races decipher each others language?
Two vastly different alien races, on opposite sides of the universe, have made first contact.
This has been possible by one of the races developing new wormhole technology and randomly finding a ...
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the intelligent extraterrestrial gift of a single question [closed]
Lets assume that intelligent extraterrestrials visited earth and gave a human a gift of allowing him/her to ask one question and just one. These beings come from far away, humans can't see their ships ...
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What components make up a universal system of measurement?
If two species with no previous knowledge of one another, and no knowledge of each other's environments (say they're on the other side of a wormhole through which they can shoot a radio signal), what ...
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Faking first contact
I am super-rich person with a net worth of 32 billion US dollars. Part of my business is being contractor for NASA and SpaceX (so I have knowledge about space technology).
I already own my island and ...
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Who will find out alien installment on Jupiter orbit?
Aliens are building a "space highway" through our solar system. They love our Jupiter, so they decided to put gas pump with bar on its orbit.
After realizing that we cannot do anything about it and ...
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How would humans and aliens communicate in a combat [closed]
Humans and several other alien species are allies in a universal war against another set of species. How would these different allies (us and aliens) communicate on the battlefield. It's one thing to ...
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How would aliens recognize communication coming from Earth as communication?
This question throws out the idea of how aliens, perhaps a passing-by alien who comes to investigate a potentially habitable planet from orbit, would recognize an 'official' communication from Earth. ...
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How would aliens in orbit know that communications from Earth are legitimate "official" communications?
So, there's a closed question So we have aliens in orbit. Now what? - but there's an implied assumption:
That somehow, there will be some unified / coherent response from humanity to aliens in orbit.
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So we have aliens in orbit. Now what? [closed]
Situation: We got an alien spaceship in orbit around Earth. They have no malicious intent towards Earth and its inhabitants, and we have no reason to blow them out of the sky. Peaceful contact... but ...
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How could a human learn to talk to "apes" (like from Planet of the Apes)?
The movie Planet of the Apes shows (and in the end explains away) humans talking with the apes in English. Assume we don't want that plot point but the setting is
similar otherwise:
The human is a ...
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How are aliens to establish contact with a planet if there are blocs there locked in battle for years?
I assume two to three antagonists (on the planet) of approximately equal military potential, located on separate landmasses, in possesion of nuclear weaponry assuring the
certain destruction of all in ...
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How would interstellar internet work?
When there are spaceships in our solar system, we receive data in intervals, depending on how far they are. Problem is, internet has to be faster. In an intergalactic union, how would a person play ...
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Why would a civilization want to contact with a hypothetical extraterrestrial civilization?
Mankind has been always interested in making contact with another (extraterrestrial) civilization. We have launched the Pioneer 10 and 11 probes with plaques explaining where the Earth is located. ...
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