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| Personal background |
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| I come from West Yorkshire in England. I am currently a teacher but am training to be a website designer. Interests include The Beatles, Internet technology and vintage cars. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Yes, I do believe they're out there. We will discover them but maybe not in our lifetime. Here is something to think about. When we do meet up with them in future we will have to develop a universal translator, similar to the one used in star trek......but........
There was always a problem that struck me with the universal translator. Even if it can send and receive translated language, it wouldn’t change the look of your lips moving. It would be obvious to anyone who was looking at you that you weren’t really speaking what they heard.
Not to mention the fact that you would actually need to speak your own words loud enough for the UT to hear you and translate. That means at the very least the person you are speaking to would hear two voices, with a bit of a delay for the second voice. In some cases it could be a significant delay. On our own planet there are languages that place words in different order in a sentence. In English we usually start with the subject, then we place a verb, and we may close the sentence with a noun or phrase. Other languages place the verb first and the subject last. Obviously if you are translating you would have to wait for the English sentence to end in order to know how to start the translation. Then of course there is the problem that some languages have very long words, or have a pace that is longer or shorter than English.
In other words, when we speak to aliens in the future, its going to look like a badly dubbed German adult film. What a delicious thought. |
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