> On Sep 8, 2015, at 8:15 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Now imagine the first contact…from THEIR point of view : “This THING! it does not speak, it shows no emotion! All it does is <indecipherable weird flashing patterns that means ‘thing that causes pressure waves before it attacks’>, KILL them all!” because that race long ago exterminated the echolocating animals that would feed upon their ancestors...
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> Kinda like Hiver hand signs, but full body images?

Yeah. I’m vaguely remembering that I started writing up such a race a long time ago; we were having a discussion about really alien aliens; I came up with something like these, and posited that they never developed binary math, or computers, but they had staggering command of analog computing by virtue of using this kind of communication.

I’ll have to see if I still have those notes around somewhere...

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