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Imagine dining in a European capital where you do not know the local language. The waiter speaks little English, but by hook or by crook you manage to order something on the menu that you recognise, eat and pay for. Now picture instead that, after a hike goes wrong, you emerge, starving, in an Amazonian village. The people there have no idea what to make of you. You mime chewing sounds, which they mistake for your primitive tongue. When you raise your hands to signify surrender, they think you are launching an attack.

Communicating without a shared context is hard. For example, radioactive sites must be left undisturbed for tens of thousands of years; yet, given that the English of just 1,000 years ago is now unintelligible to most of its modern speakers, agencies have struggled to create warnings to accompany nuclear waste. Committees responsible for doing so have come up with everything from towering concrete spikes, to Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”, to plants genetically modified to turn an alarming blue. None is guaranteed to be future-proof.

Some of the same people who worked on these waste-site messages have also been part of an even bigger challenge: communicating with extraterrestrial life. This is the subject of “Extraterrestrial Languages”, a new book by Daniel Oberhaus, a journalist at Wired.

Nothing is known about how extraterrestrials might take in information. A pair of plaques sent in the early 1970s with Pioneer 10 and 11, two spacecraft, show nude human beings and a rough map to find Earth—rudimentary stuff, but even that assumes aliens can see. Since such craft have no more than an infinitesimal chance of being found, radio broadcasts from Earth, travelling at the speed of light, are more likely to make contact. But just as a terrestrial radio must be tuned to the right frequency, so must the interstellar kind. How would aliens happen upon the correct one? The Pioneer plaque gives a hint in the form of a basic diagram of a hydrogen atom, the magnetic polarity of which flips at regular intervals, with a frequency of 1,420MHz. Since hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, the hope is that this sketch might act as a sort of telephone number.

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Entry #31423 — Discuss 0
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Este é o tema de “Extraterrestrial Languages” - "Línguas extraterrestes", em tradução livre -, o mais novo livro do jornalista Daniel Oberhaus, da revista Wired
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Entry #30803 — Discuss 0
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les pensam que você está desferindo um ataque.
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Entry #31261 — Discuss 0
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se alimenta e paga a conta
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Comunicar-se na ausência de um contexto compartilhado é difícil.
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despidos
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Entry #30791 — Discuss 0
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áreas radioativas devem ser mantidas isoladas
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duas naves espaciais, mostram seres humanos nus e um mapa tosco para localizar a Terra; coisas rudimentares, mas mesmo isso pressupõe que os extraterrestres podem ver.
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rádio partindo da Terra
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esquema
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Entry #30824 — Discuss 0
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Seus habitantes não fazem a menor ideia do que pensar de você
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Você imita sons de mastigação, que eles imaginam ser seu idioma nativo.
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você está prestes a atacar.
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presumem que alienígenas possam enxergar
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Entry #30611 — Discuss 0
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Este é o tema de "Linguagem Extraterrestre", um novo livro de Daniel Oberhaus, jornalista da "Wired".
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esboço de um mapa
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Entry #30616 — Discuss 0
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Um par
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Literally ​"a pair". ​That's sou​nd better ​than "two ​plaques".
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transmissões de rádio da Terra
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Entry #30625 — Discuss 0
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por isso
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Nada é garantia de resistir à passagem do tempo.
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Você levanta suas mãos em um gesto de rendição e eles entendem como um ataque.
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Entry #31330 — Discuss 0
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entende pouquíssimo da sua língua
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bizarra cor azul
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Better tha​n "alarmin​g". Some p​eople tran​slate alar​ming as "a​larmante",​ which mea​ns "shoker​".
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continue inteligível no futuro
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placas metálicas
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têm o sentido da visão
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Entry #31474 — Discuss 0
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formas de vida extraterrestres
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painéis
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assim como as comunicações terrestres via rádio devem ser sintonizadas na frequência correta
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isso supondo que os alienígenas consigam ver alguma coisa
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Entry #31234 — Discuss 0
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eles pensam que você está partindo para um ataque.
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