How to Make First Contact

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How to Make First Contact

Vanessa Ravencroft

Vanessa Ravencroft 3 years ago

Communication with Olfactory means (farts) is difficult as you could not communicate an idea to a larger audience. It could not be recorded(until a very advanced technology is able to produce molecules of a particular kind and composition every time) Communication is a pre requisite to a technical tool building society. No matter how alien the aliens might be, they need prerequisites to advance to a tool building tech society that eventually builds some sort of space crossing device.

1) They need to live in a NiOx atmosphere in which a Fire burns - no fire no utilization of fire and metals (Stone is simply not a good substitute for metals used on a space ship (Ceramics are a different story but in order to create such high resistant ceramics you need metal tools) This is why no matter how smart dolphins and octopus are, they live in an environment where fire and thus the first step to civilization is not possible) 2) Vision - Vision stereoscopic at least - to focus on reasonable small items, No matter how good you hear, a race of blind could not build a machine of more than three -four parts.

3)Manipulators - some form of hand or manipulator (tentacle with an opposing element) and enough sensitivity to manipulate small objects.Now sentient life might evolve out of anything (The Aliens in my Universe come from all sorts of environments but not all of them are able to create a civilization (see http://galnet.wikia.com/wiki/C... )

4) Communication that can be responded to, that is able to address more than one other individual and can be recorded (oral history, written, radio waves etc) Now a Sign language (A species of mine utilizes mouth tentacles to as part of their language,so most is "lost in translation") Visual based communication can take the place for acoustics, Olfactory smell based communications can not (in a language capable of communicating mathematics.) So whoever the Aliens may be, as long as they build space ships they have technology and must fit within these criteria (if they are from our reality and governed by the same physical rules) Carbon is Carbon on Earth as it is on the most distant planet. Oxidation and chemical processes are universal) But Human language is not acoustic alone, there are a million things I can communicate with facial expressions and body language.) The Attikan of my Universe were terribly offended by a smiling human. The exposing of teeth to them is a sign of impeding violence) Anyway the language of any sentient technological advanced species must be able to convey mathematics and abstracts,

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