8th August 2006, 3:10 PM
Quote:We can send "pulse... pulse pulse.... pulse pulse pulse pulse..." (and so on up to 256 or whatever) and it'll be pretty clear to any intelligence.
As we have never encountered any intellegence, ever, even remotely like our own, wouldn't you think that's, at best, a hopeful assumption?
It's quite reasonable to imagine that another intelligent life form, even one at a level of advancement close to our own, might never recieve such a transmission, our would, and view it as nothing more than gibberish, because they have a system of communication so radically different from anything we've conceived?
I mean, if you're going to dismiss art because of such things, you can't assume binary is going to be any easier to interpret. That makes you as guilty of limited perception as I am.
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