A group of us DJ friends used to say "we speak alien" which was a comment about the type of music we played. There's a group by the name of Eat Static which is known for their prolific use of aliens trope and 50s style sci-fi samples that has an album titled "Abduction". One of the tracks is called "Gulf Breeze" which at one point was famous for the most reports of alien abductions. I always wanted to spend a night playing music on the beach waiting for the aliens to make an appearance as it seemed to be the most likely of places for it to happen.<p>Just a random story on a bored sunday
"In sending out music, the idea was to communicate that sense of humanness, that feeling and drive, that ecstasy."<p>Somehow, this makes perfect sense.
On a related note, here’s a paper by (Hugo award winner) David Brin that I came across recently that talks about why we do not hear communications from other life forms in our galaxy. Not being found is a pretty good strategy for survival:<p><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Brin/publication/234496344_The_%27Great_Silence%27_The_Controversy_Concerning_Extraterrestrial_Intelligent_Life/links/5468f0e30cf20dedafd0d529/The-Great-Silence-The-Controversy-Concerning-Extraterrestrial-Intelligent-Life.pdf?origin=publication_detail&_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uRG93bmxvYWQiLCJwcmV2aW91c1BhZ2UiOiJwdWJsaWNhdGlvbiJ9fQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Brin/publication/...</a>
cant talk about using music to contact aliens without mentioning <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Spiegel" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Spiegel</a>
truthfully if i was not of this world and heard Fela Kuti being broadcasted into the cosmos i'd be coaxed into coming to Earth. those are some damn good vibrations!
Am I the only one that thinks it's not a good idea? I mean the signal hasnt traveled very far, but yeah these announcements "hey, we're here" aren't very nice.