Talking with ET -searching for ways to communicate

What happens if we are looking in the wrong spectrum for communications with other beings? We wont pick up any signals will we? The only spectrum we know about is the electromagnetic spectrum consisting of light, sound, and radio waves. What other spectrum or 'frequency' could there be? Some squid or octopi communicate by flashing lights at each other or changing the pattern on their skin.

Well, there are symbols too.

Each symbol represents a specific 'frequency' and if we can determine the frequency of their communications, then we may be able to pick up something (more than we are at the moment, anyway) I do not think we will necessarily be able to pick up their communications like radio chatter, but we may be able to prove the concept.

So, what we need is a carrier wave frequency. A basic pattern which can be embedded in other sysmbols/patterns which set the base carrier wave of the message and apon which the other frequencies ride.

This is perhaps what the crop circles are? Maybe they are telling us the base carrier frequencies to initiate communications?

Now, I know nothing about radio other than being a 'user' but what we need is an intelligent person who can guide us or direct us along these lines (as a start) and we may be able to come up with a few different ideas which are totally out-of-the-box which may bear fruit. Everyone can chip in with their ideas and together we might have success. Who knows? We will have to think NOT in terms of radio and electronics but in drawings on a piece of paper transmitting the message.

I have seen patterns in the desert on the MarsAnomalyResearch site which suggest that the military may be sending messages in symbols so why not communications like emails or tweets?

The fictional large black monolith in 2001 a space odessy was not a radio beacon as we know it and probably was not broadcasting on "radio" waves. BUT it may have been a 'radio beacon' broadcasting on "symbol" waves if it had symbols on it. (I cannot remember what it had written on it) How to stop it transmitting ? Dont know, but we have to find one for real first before we stop it transmitting to whereever or whoever. Possibly all it needs is to cover it in a sheet to stop it 'transmitting'?

I can imagine some alien monitoring station monitoring all the nearby monoliths and as soon as one stops transmitting the same message as it has for eons, then all the alarms go off telling them that the civilisation has just reached stage I of its maturity !

Dont know, but we have to find one for real first before we stop it transmitting to whereever or whoever.

Maybe like the monolith on Mars' moon Phobos?



If this was a beacon of some kind then its in the right place. It may have been put there so that when the people of Earth become a space faring race and make it to Mars, because this would be a great milestone in their evolution they would maybe recieve some form of messege form this monolith... just spit ballin here

I guess this is too far out on the edge for people to really seriously consider it. Oh well....

However, it makes a lot of sense to me - what have we heard from SETI? Either there are no ETs out there (unlikely) or else they dont hear us or else they dont want to respond.

Throughout history we have used symbols on caves. Everyone thinks they are just primitive drawings, but what if they are meant to be that way because they say something in that language?

The large symbols on the desert floor at Nazca?

Originally posted by qmantoo
What happens if we are looking in the wrong spectrum for communications with other beings? We wont pick up any signals will we?

There is no wrong spectrum for ETs, they pick up on the 'slightest pin drop of the mind' - which means that if you look out of your window and call on the ETs they will come. You called on them for a question of companionship that they might come and give you something you don't have. They came and took genetics. They did not give you anything, so you didn't call on them anymore. Then you relealized they saw you in a craft 30 years ago and you had a very short gap of missing time, but you were young and since it was not conceptual it was lost forgotten. These are the things that happened to 2% of the American population during our recent past.

Yes, but I dont want to speak to some and I do want to speak to others. There must be a communication between aliens - rather like we have different channels on the CB radio.

If you know all about this, then maybe you share it with us?