Re: How do you say 'Hello' to an alien?

In a message dated 2003:08:01 10:33:30 AM, jaspax@U.WASHINGTON.EDU writes:

>Thinking that they'll understand the message is a whole different matter.
>Representational art is remarkably different even between human cultures,
>and thinking that aliens could understand the Arecibo message makes far
>too many assumptions about their cognitive and perceptive abilities.
    The aliens might think it is a music composition and try it out...
Probably decide whatever composed this kinda of music are pretty
uninteresting/primitive/potential threat. Or probably think it was the aliens' equivalent of a
schoolkid's doodle ;)

    Or what if by mistake we just declared war on the aliens, who think
that's a bloody rich joke coming from Higher Primates?

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a.k.a. "TricksterGod of the Glorious Anti-Imperialist Chinese Boxers";
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<=  thee prIs ov X.iztenz iz aetern'l warfaer 'N' kreativ playf'llnizz...  =>

    =>  om hung hanumatay rudratmakai hung phat  <=
    mantra to Hanuman the Hindu Monkey TricksterGod

>Finally a religious statement I can agree with:
>
>the Zoroastrian teaching that it is a sin for a person to be boring.
"Life is all a great joke, but only the brave ever get the point."
                                    - Kenneth Rexroth

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