Ok you maniacs... I just came off of 9 days of sitting night alert for the hospital helicopter. Probably some lives were saved... I don't know... that weirdness happens in the back of the aircraft. If there is one thing all pilots must know, don't get involved in anything that happens behind the back of your seat. It gets weird back there.
So, I came home at 6 am this morning and reasonably decided to have some good morning whiskey and watch documentaries about whales.
It started me thinking... The US space program, the human genome mapping, the LHC... There are some large awesome projects advancing human knowledge that have really made humanity better. Let us say we put some Apollo level commitment (money) into language/communication with other species. It is pretty obvious that whales, coyotes, and some birds have for real languages.
Can you imagine if we could communicate reliably with other earthlings?
There are bowhead whales over 200 years old. There are trees that communicate chemically that are over 90,000 years old (roots only)... imagine we got our top intel nerds working on cracking coms from the oldest and possibly most experienced beings on earth!
Let's imagine we put the best code breakers and linguistics specialists on the case of talking to whales, dolphins... and maybe a few trees... and we could learn from their perspective.
These whales are sending modem amounts of data... basically by sounding like a fax machine underwater.
There is a lot of untaped knowledge... wisdom maybe... if we can figure out how to communicate. If we really are the TOP species on earth... we should be able to pull this off! Plus, learning to communicate at a fluent level with other species might be make the Universe a little less lonely.
So, I came home at 6 am this morning and reasonably decided to have some good morning whiskey and watch documentaries about whales.
It started me thinking... The US space program, the human genome mapping, the LHC... There are some large awesome projects advancing human knowledge that have really made humanity better. Let us say we put some Apollo level commitment (money) into language/communication with other species. It is pretty obvious that whales, coyotes, and some birds have for real languages.
These guys are starting the project...
Can you imagine if we could communicate reliably with other earthlings?
There are bowhead whales over 200 years old. There are trees that communicate chemically that are over 90,000 years old (roots only)... imagine we got our top intel nerds working on cracking coms from the oldest and possibly most experienced beings on earth!
Let's imagine we put the best code breakers and linguistics specialists on the case of talking to whales, dolphins... and maybe a few trees... and we could learn from their perspective.
There is a lot of untaped knowledge... wisdom maybe... if we can figure out how to communicate. If we really are the TOP species on earth... we should be able to pull this off! Plus, learning to communicate at a fluent level with other species might be make the Universe a little less lonely.
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I lost your number and that makes me sad. I was thinking about you while not cleaning my glasses.
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