- cross-posted to:
- whales
- digitalbioacoustics
- jingszo
- cross-posted to:
- whales
- digitalbioacoustics
- jingszo
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Good. We’ll need this when the probe arrives.
Good thing we already invented transparent aluminum!
already invented transparent aluminum!
Oh shit really lol chalk another one to tech Star Trek predicted lmaooo
Meanwhile, in Atlantis, some Professor of Inferior Species just wrote a paper about how the dumb apes just learned to talk properly.
Maybe not in Atlantis, but it really is possible that right now that humpback is telling his buddies “I swear, I was swimming along and heard someone saying hello, and when I looked over it was a boat!”
Star Trek IV was a documentary
Not buying it. None of the articles detail anything about any effective two way communication. Basically the boat blasted a duck call and a curious whale came over and left after 15 minutes of Nickelback gibberish.
Kinda like when you stand in your kitchen and meow at the cat and he looks at you like wtf dude then walks away.
It’s been a pretty popular theory for a while. This album dropped in 1991 https://open.spotify.com/album/5h96FXOFTdfJxanqdzoczd?si=J4VyjspPTUOFyDi4ImJ_Rw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A5h96FXOFTdfJxanqdzoczd
We’ve long known it’s likely that some kind of communication is going on in whalesong, but it’s a pretty huge advance to have figured out enough to say “hello”
It would also be a breakthrough to know another species has a greeting, something which requires regular interaction with others and thus a form of society. If there is a consistency to the communication then there is also a potential for culture. If there is an equivalent of “hello” it would have the potential of changing everything.
Anthropology would be a broken up into species specializations and Cetaceopology would become a thing. Linguists will also have species specific terms for sounds outside of human vocal ability. AI will be trained on non-human speech. Everything will be different.
No. We still have a lot in common with whales. They’re mammals after all. We have NO inkling of how or what aliens will be. Let’s look at one of the many possible problems: our sense of time. An alien race might have a very slow growth rate/information polling rate that to them, 10000 years is but 1 second. To us, such aliens might not even appear to be alive.
How long before whalers start playing the calls as bait?
Hopefully improving communication with whales will help shut down the last remnants of the whaling industry.
