Lets say there is an alien civilisation 10 light years from us, at a similar tech level though they developed significantly different than us. And tomorrow a communication of them arrives to us that they sent 10 years ago. The communication included, audio, video, images, schematics, theories, a dictionary of their language in English, information on their civilisation and culture, and etc. They tell us we're the first intelligence they've discovered outside of their planet. And they requested we do a knowledge exchange and gave us a direction to aim our communications to them at. Would it be possible for us to reply? Would we? Obviously, there would be a ten year lag in communications, but they could be staggered instead of all sent at once? What would happened if we did technological exchange? What would be the consequences of this event happening?Would it be possible for us to do a mission to visit them, or them visit us? If they invited us and said we could send a colony to them, would we, could we?
>>16852553glow niggers would make sure communication never made it to us
Wrong board. Go post this in /x/.
Communication is possible, 10 light years is doable with our current level of technology.They already know english, tha means they should already know most of our culture and technology anyway so the request is suspicious.Consequences are too dependent on their intentions, we know ourselves though and we would definitely reply.A mission requires a technology we don't have yet.
>>16852553>Would it be possible for us to reply?Yes>Would we? >What would happened if we did technological exchange? Insufficient data for a meaningful answer>What would be the consequences of this event happening?If we're at the same tech level, quite possibly nothing>Would it be possible for us to do a mission to visit them, or them visit us?lmao> If they invited us and said we could send a colony to them, would weno>could weLMAOAnyway the biggest obstacle by far to communications between alien species (after actually finding them) is encoding the information in a way the target can decipher. In your hypothetical example they have already decided both our electronic signal encoding methods and the English language, so communication and tech exchange is easy peasy. Though we might have a hard time finding a math framework to translate their math system into ours and vice versa. With 10 year lag between messages, it would take a while to establish communication protocols
>>16852718Communication with 20 year time lag isn't all that difficult. We still use the same radio standards we used in 2005 and even if we didn't we would obviously figure it out instantly when someone starts blasting us with radio with 20 year old standard, it's our own past after all. The actual hard part is figuring out the communication as the initiator which in this scenario is already done. If they are blasting us with english then we can just blast english back at them with the same standards and it would all just work from that point onwards.
