Nasa's Golden Record may baffle alien life, say researchers

[Patrick]

modern languages share no resemblance to ancient languages but we've done a pretty good job at deciphering them.

[Bordey]

We should launch the 9GAG meme monument into space instead.

[AtomicSans]

don't even joke about things like this

[.𓃉𓁿𓂎𓁿𓃉.]

aliens would probably have as good of an understanding of earth cultures as early 2010s companies understood internet culture

[Headhumpy]

Not to mention most stars exhibit a peak in their emission spectra between mid-IR to mid-UV. It just doesn't make sense to use any other portion of the spectrum.

[Anteep]

judging from my experiences aliens are too dumb to figure out how to use the golden record in the first place

[Big D Duchovny]

What makes you think that they wouldn't use light for their primary sense (or one of them)? And why not in a wavelength similar to ours? Assuming a nearby star is their source of energy, and assuming (liquid) water plays a pretty important role on their planet, that spectrum makes a lot of sense:

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/185359/be77a958-34e0-4349-a6c5-d84485643c96/image.png

[Headhumpy]

I agree that extraterrestrial organisms are likely to sense UV to IR, but what does the absorption spectrum of water have to do with this?

[Big D Duchovny]

If you have a lot of liquid water on your planet, it makes sense to be sensitive to the wavelengths that pass through it easily.

[Clovis]

I suppose that's fair. I'm hardly a super fan or anything, so I'm not trying to 'spread the word' or anything like that. I haven't seen much Star Trek, but they literally violate the Prime Directive in the first act of one of the recent films, so it seems a little more of a fluid rule in Star Trek canon now, which is a shame. Gene Rodenberry (sp?) would be upset about this, I'm sure.

[Orkel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibByF9XPAPg

[Zero-Point]

Aliens: "That's some pretty good dub-step"