The tabloid press is replete with information about aliens. But, of course, no one takes all this seriously. However, recently, not tabloid journalists or ufologists, but serious researchers have begun to talk about brothers in reason more and more often. So, recently NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao made a statement that aliens have long been among us …
When will we make contact?
According to Chiao, we do not notice the presence of representatives of alien intelligence on Earth, since they are in a state of suspended animation. But sooner or later they will come out of it, and then we will see them. This will be related to the Apocalypse, which will come in about 200 years. A gloomy forecast, isn't it?
There is also a theory that other intelligent civilizations have not yet been found for the reason that they are part of a kind of closed "club" into which we are simply not accepted because of our "underdevelopment". So contact will happen only when we are ripe for it …
But even if we imagine that we have met with aliens, it is not a fact that we will actually be able to contact them, says James Carney of Lancaster University. Brothers in mind can communicate with each other in a completely different way - not using ordinary language, but through gestures, facial expressions, or even telepathically …
The language barrier
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Meanwhile, NASA experts are busy developing several techniques at once, which supposedly will help to establish contact with aliens. In particular, they are trying to create a device that will analyze the actions of the aliens and interpret them. And the famous Scottish astronomer Duncan Forgan even developed a whole protocol of actions that must be taken if intelligent life is found in space.
According to NASA employees, residents of other planets, like humans, can communicate with each other using sounds, but their hearing organs can perceive sounds in a completely different range than we do. So we cannot understand each other through speech.
In addition, our linguistic thinking is limited by habitual grammatical and semantic constructions, which may be simply inaccessible to aliens. Just as their language constructions will be inaccessible to us. Although there is a possibility that we will be able to go beyond the form, using, for example, semantic images. The more similar our structure of thinking turns out to be with the "alien" one, the more chances for successful communication.
Science can become a universal language of communication with other intelligent beings, suggests James Carney. But this is only on condition that the laws of physics on Earth and in the alien homeland work in the same way.
Do not forget that the aliens' goal may be to colonize the Earth. And in this case it will be even more difficult to achieve some kind of mutual understanding.
Without the Internet - no way
By the way, a recent study by Cambium Networks showed that 25 percent of Americans believe that a prerequisite for survival in the event of a zombie apocalypse or an alien invasion is the presence of the Internet.
In the course of a poll, in which 2,000 US adults took part, they had to answer the question of what cataclysms it is impossible to do without connecting to the global network. 75 percent cited terrorist attacks, 68 percent named natural disasters such as tornadoes or earthquakes, 30 percent named droughts, and 28 percent named famines. And, as we can see, a quarter of the survey participants indicated such events as a zombie or alien attack.
It is clear that the Internet is a universal medium of information that is able to notify in time of an impending danger and organize assistance to those in distress. True, one should not count on the fact that the Internet will solve all our problems, because it can simply turn off if, as a result of a cataclysm, electricity is cut off or communication lines are damaged.
As for those who are going to use the Internet to escape from aggressive humanoids, the authors of the study believe that these respondents have simply seen enough fantastic films. Although such options cannot be ruled out one hundred percent, of course. After all, we cannot be sure that we are alone in the Universe … This means that there is still a tiny fraction of the probability of an invasion.