I’m speaking very hypothetically here, but if we happened to recieve a voyager disc style message from another planet, which contained numbers and writing in their language, how does the process of translation begin?
It still blows my mind that at some point, two people from the same planet that spoke very different languages (chinese and engish for example), started the process of learning each others languages and worked out what each other were saying. So how would this work for a completely new, unknown language with completely new characters, digits and language features?
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A space civilization has to be able to do advanced math and math laws are universal as far as we know. *Contact* went with this.
So it has to follow math and likely has to follow data science ideas.
We could identify that it’s not natural relatively easily.
Translate? Without a key of some kind (they would probably have to be aiming at us on purpose), likely can’t. There are Earth human language barriers that are effectively untranslateable. With nothing else, someone who speaks English who receives data of Mandarin Chinese will never translate it. Probably not even if they know some spoken Mandarin Chinese.
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