How Aliens Made Contact in 1977

Problem: You’re an advanced alien civilisation, you’ve travelled further than you can count, and the locals only speak variations on a primitive phonetic language.
So how do you communicate with them?

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Solutions…

 


By getting the locals to chant…


 

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By hand signal…

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Via Granstand’s teleprinter (at the ECHO deep space telescope)…


 

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On a Yamaha SY2 analogue synthesizer (with keys marked)…

 

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On a toy glockenspiel…

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Over the phone…

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Then when the locals work out that your codes are map coordinates (view in 3d) for a close encounter…

 

They can communicate with you on an ARP 2600 analogue synth…

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Using coloured lights…

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And then you can bring out your spaceship sized tuba…

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Watch the High Skies…