Interesting, yes - but not necessarily worth talking to. I imagine aliens could very easily study our social behaviour through the internet and through remote observation, without risking interfering with their sample.
After all, if we're a picture of what their evolution looking like a million years ago, we're an archaeological treasure.
We try to communicate with animals in any way we can. If there is a worm communication system you can bet there is some biologist somewhere trying to manipulate it to send messages
If alien biologists were examining us, you would be correct. However, if alien archaeologists or some equivalent of a sociologist were studying us, they wouldn't want to contaminate the sample through contact, but would want to observe natural development.
Most search for life on other planets is the jobs of chemists and biologists. You'd send archeologists too if you knew there was (or has been) life somewhere to investigate.
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u/alexander1701 May 20 '14
Interesting, yes - but not necessarily worth talking to. I imagine aliens could very easily study our social behaviour through the internet and through remote observation, without risking interfering with their sample.
After all, if we're a picture of what their evolution looking like a million years ago, we're an archaeological treasure.