Will we be one day be able to communicate with an alien civilization?

Question

Given that now we know that there're thousands of planets out there in various galaxies that could support life.

Answer 1

That's an interesting question. One problem is that any signal sent from a radio antenna decays according to the inverse square law and a beamed signal must be directed toward a good prospect, likely within our own galaxy. The nearest star is about four light years away for any signal so that a 'hello" would take about eight years for a reply, and we don't know how far away the nearest sun and planet that could support life is located. Another problem is that a sun and planet with life may have passed through its 'life cycle' long ago or far in the future when we are gone. Likely we could transmit our Library of Congress and they could send theirs back and we could quickly learn about each other. There is little reason to believe that other planets would be far advanced compared to earth since we have the collective intelligence of many outstanding individuals enhanced with powerful computers. They might be amazed by some humans.

Answer 2

Theoretically, its possible but our current advances in telecommunications technology do not have any known methods by which we can establish a contact between the Earth and an alien civilization on some other planet.

However, there is some degree of contact if one were to study the cases of human abductions by aliens, sightings of UFOs and ancient carvings and paintings that depict humanoids different than us.

The most likely contact between us and an alien civilization will be through their visiting space ship and if that occurs, there are very good chances that we will be able to communicaate with aliens on another planet, as we do with humans, on phone or by radio etc.

The only other hurdle that would remain in case such a communication is indeed established, would of of the language. We dont even know if such aliens would speak and if they do, what is their language.

Answer 3

Most of the academic initiatives to reflect on the challenge of communicating with extraterrestrials seem to focus on the technical problems of receiving a signal from them, or sending a signal to them. These questions are extensively explored in the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) literature and even in the lesser-known CETI variant, namely Communicating with Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Such preoccupations then extend into the challenge of teaching aliens a language through which communication can be developed.

This paper is concerned with the psycho-social issues of communicating with extraterrestrials intelligently -- other than by making assumptions about the universality of coding based on prime number theory and mathematics as exemplified by the special language Lincos (developed by Hans Freudenthal in 1960) designed for such communication. Almost no serious study seems to have been made of the psychology of extraterrestrial communication -- presumably on the basis that xenopsychology, xenoanthropology or xenolinguistics (terms seemingly used only by science fiction enthusiasts and game designers) need some cases to work on before anything useful can be written. Although it might be argued that the theoretical challenges for communication are clear enough to commence such work. The possibility that aliens may assess the value of communicating with humanity more in terms of the integrative order which humanity has been able to give to mathematics as a whole (rather than to a particular "branch" concerned with number theory) is tentatively explored in a separate paper (Judge, 2000)

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Answer 4

We already are able to. The Voyager probe was designed to do just that. It could well be knocking about in space long after we're gone and anyone could find it. We have also been sending radio and television signals out into space for decades that are powerful enough to reach other solar systems. the problem is that space is big - certainly big enough to muffle us for eternity. The chances are that another intelligent civilization would be searching for others too, so I live in hope.

Answer 5

we may glean whats being said out there,and not know whats being said, but actually talk, face to face, I think not. Everything in the Universe is under quarantine. And if we break that quarantine, and contaminate an atmosphere that already has life(even life as we do not know it),it could be disastrous for both species.

Answer 6

Hopefully such a situation will one day come about,but it is very unlikely.
There are probably millions or billions of civilizations like ours but we will never meet one and we just may never get any proof that they exist.
SETI is our best bet but they still may never receive a verifiable intelligent signal.

Answer 7

Not in any way of a person to person conversation, unless man discovers how to live for 300 - 400 years, and doesn't forget to look 400 years later for his response, and since everything is in motion, he'd also have to know where to look. Impossible!

Answer 8

yes we can do it , as you know our scientist are trying to get the information regarding alliance since decades , and our knowledge on information and technology as grown lot since time to time and with the super super computers and great minds , yes we can find them and communicate with them, with in next 20yrs, we hope it will support our life over o earth and on an alien place too, if not we make it happen .

Answer 9

You are probably going to think I am nut.......but I think we are already communicating with other species on other planets. The government just won't tell us.

Answer 10

Math is the universal language. 1 is 1 anywhere you go in our universe.