--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, michael poxon <m.poxon@V...> wrote:
> I think you need to beware of this sort of cultural stuff! It's
rather like
> the Victorians sending a message and expecting the aliens to be
"obviously"
> using some form of steam engine. Surely they must be at least that
smart!
> But why should an alien civilization be "technological" at all?
Maybe they
> use magic and communicate entirely by colours, maybe they spend all
their
> time singing.
Well, I think we can restrict the target audience to those
kinds of aliens who'd get to read our message in the first
place, i.e. the technological ones with radio astronomy.
Inverse anthropic principle, if you wish. ;-P
And what exactly did you mean by "magic"?
-- Christian Thalmann