Anyone else love this classic Science Fiction movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Ever since I was a little kid i was fascinated with the idea of interstellar communication via music. I always imagined alien lifeforms as being so absurdly differently evolved than humans that "speech" would not be an idea they would understand. The only real universal language would be mathematical concepts, but what if theirs were so far advanced beyond ours that we could not find a way of deciphering or understanding them?
A binary signal could be one possible means of communication. Base 2 would be a clearly universal way to communicate numbers and ideas because high/low or on/off is a lot easier to differentiate than symbols for base 8 or base 10 or base 16 (or whatever arbitrary numerical base one would choose to communicate values with).
So absolutely love the scene where the aliens choose communication via music. Music could easily represent logical sequences and numerical values, and the very oscillation of soundwaves could represent digital signals. It could be similiar to the clock pulses of a microprocessor. Plus it sounds groovy.
IMO a wonderfully univeral way to say hello would be with a musical tune. The part where the alien spaceship hits a frequency so low and powerful that it shatters all the glass in the landing area, we need to have raves like that where the dnb is that loud.
(course this all relies on aliens evolving under atmospheric conditions similiar to earth and thus having the ability to detect soundwaves in a similiar manner)
anyways i think this movie kicksass. its one of those geeky cult scifi movies, but im sure theres enough people on here that dig it.
Ever since I was a little kid i was fascinated with the idea of interstellar communication via music. I always imagined alien lifeforms as being so absurdly differently evolved than humans that "speech" would not be an idea they would understand. The only real universal language would be mathematical concepts, but what if theirs were so far advanced beyond ours that we could not find a way of deciphering or understanding them?
A binary signal could be one possible means of communication. Base 2 would be a clearly universal way to communicate numbers and ideas because high/low or on/off is a lot easier to differentiate than symbols for base 8 or base 10 or base 16 (or whatever arbitrary numerical base one would choose to communicate values with).
So absolutely love the scene where the aliens choose communication via music. Music could easily represent logical sequences and numerical values, and the very oscillation of soundwaves could represent digital signals. It could be similiar to the clock pulses of a microprocessor. Plus it sounds groovy.
IMO a wonderfully univeral way to say hello would be with a musical tune. The part where the alien spaceship hits a frequency so low and powerful that it shatters all the glass in the landing area, we need to have raves like that where the dnb is that loud.
(course this all relies on aliens evolving under atmospheric conditions similiar to earth and thus having the ability to detect soundwaves in a similiar manner)
anyways i think this movie kicksass. its one of those geeky cult scifi movies, but im sure theres enough people on here that dig it.
