Would they communicate with us or....

Humpback whales?

If there is an advanced race of alien, extraterrestrial beings and they are seeking to communicate with the most advanced beings on our planet, they may not bother with humans.

By analysing human languages and animal communications mathematically, scientists at the institute discovered a universal constant in the structure of all forms of communication, and were able to rate these on general scale of 1 - 10. English featured at level 8 (and, as anyone who has ever tried to learn it as a foreign language will testify, that's no surprise!). Only one other form of terrestrial communication was more complex in structure, featuring at around 9 on the scale - the language of humpback whales.

Aboriginal peoples in Australia and New Zealand have long believed that whales carry with them ancient memories; memories of how the world came into being, and of human and animal history. Even more interesting, then, is the fact that SETI scientists found that whales can imitate the sounds made by other animals, even those they couldn't ever have come into contact with, like lions:

"We have recorded humpbacks making sounds like the trumpeting of elephants, roars like lions, whistles like dolphins, clicks like the sperm whale, mooing like cows, chattering like monkeys, and several very human-like vocalizations – some even sounding like an unusual language, with exclamations like “whoops!”. Although we are just beginning to document and classify all the diverse sounds of the humpback whale, we already expect its repertoire to exceed that of any other animal we have studied to date."

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If they are looking for the most advanced life forms based on advanced language then they will find the Humpback whales first... Maybe they already have?

Maybe they are already communicating with these massive creatures?

If we could only communicate with these whales what could they teach us?

Aliens could be broadcasting all around us and we may not have the understanding to listen.

Imagine if you were suddenly whisked back in time a mere 100 years. On this journey you took along a ham radio. You could broadcast all day long and no one would hear you or reply because no one had so much as a clue as to what a ham radio was 100 years ago.

It's a pet theory of mine that extraterestial messages are being blasted all around us and we simply do not have the understanding or technology to listen in.

Someday we will though.

As for the whales, I hope the aliens are teaching them how to dodge harpoons.

reply to post by mrwupy


I like your theory.

If they are scientists and are looking for intelligent life based on complex language not necessarily technological abilities then these whales do have the more complex language.

I wonder if they would simply broadcast messages arbitrarily in the hope that some intelligent life would find it, or if they would seek out intelligent life, if so logically it would seem that they would seek out the life which has the most complex language... one could theorize that the more complex the language the more intelligent the life form would be, and that would likely be the life form one would attempt to communicate with first.