Out of Pod Experience

Has anyone else watched the movie Arrival?

I thought it was a very good foundation for learning to communicate.


Not all alien mega structures would be necessarily comprised of steel. An alien language could also be a mega structure.

https://phys.org/news/2016-12-astronomers-mysterious-dimming-young-nearby.html

This is an interesting theory to the light curves of several stars that have mysterious dims that cannot be explained.

Why were Sheena Easton sites used?....See...She....He...across the distance of the sea.

How an alien civilization might communicate with Earth.

The very first sense that a newborn uses upon emerging from the womb is its eyes as it encounters light for the very first time. An alien civilization having discovered Earth but not wanting to disturb our natural evolution would understand that the simple sense of sight would be a common language foundation or speech through seeing.
Hearing would be the second sense with touch and smell and taste to follow. But the two primary foundations of a language would be sight and hearing that like the letter A would form the legs of the letter A to a single point of understanding. The bar in the center of the letter A is to ensure that the rigidity of the foundation is remains connected at the simplest forms of communications and to not get to communicated with dual meanings of words.
In 1977 the Voyager program launched into space to explore what we call Deep Space, or the space beyond Pluto. On both of those spacecraft were Golden Records that described humanity and Earth and where Earth was located thus achieving the first foundation of communication between an alien civilization through sight.
An advanced alien civilization would know how sound is created based on a guide wavelength's, depth. width and length that would allow the aliens to understand what was on the record.
Like I mentioned sight is the first sense that an infant uses when it comes from the void into the light. Humans looking from the Earth into space is much like the infant seeing for its first time. An alien race would design its language based on sight first as a mutual understanding as a formal base of communication.
Because light travels very far and very fast through space and has a less likely chance to degrade across time and since sight is the first sense that we use an advanced civilization would use the largest source of light that we can see in space to communicate with.
A sun.
A sun emits light based on its own rhythm but there are several stars that are experiencing mysterious light curves or dims that cannot be explained as there is not any celestial objects interfering with the suns to cause the dims. The only explanation can be that something is manipulating the sun's light curve to create a language that humans can first see.
Stars that have mysterious dims that cannot be explained are:

RIK-210
EPIC-2042
KIC-8462

The closest sun is RIK-210 at approx 470 light years from Earth.

In all three mysteries the numbers, 0,1,2,4,6 and 8 are present in the first three and four numerical values.

All of these stars have dims that have increase mysteriously that much like the wavelength of sound can converted into sight at the speed of light.

Going back to the Golden Record and how a record is made. Each sound that is recorded on a record has left and right wave channel that the stylus travels across to create the desired the sound. If the light curves of the three suns listed above are treated like the wave channels where the length, depth and distance are converted into wave channels and a stylus then travels through both left and right wave channels then a message might be present that an advanced alien civilization is using to try and communicate with humanity.
The link below shows a record and stylus at 1,000 times magnification. If you look close enough at the outside edges of the wave channels a 2D wavelength is formed that is very much similar to how a light curve of a sun would look in 2D.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/vinyl_and_stylus_at_1000x_magnification

If the light curves of the above three mysterious suns are placed together in various combinations such as the right channel of RIK-210 and the left channel of EPIC-2042 for example then the Golden Record of the aliens trying to communicate with humans might be present.

It was an interesting movie.

Aliens may not have a sense for sound.

There are 3 distinct features that keeps recurring
all throughout evolution.

Those are vision, fur and ability to fly. They keep poppin
up in various forms in very diverse species.

Film is much easier then....still a good watch ...book interest me now might grab it for reading.

Duh, I'm still trying to make sense of the ending of Fiasco. Who/what are the aliens exactly? I've read the book seven times both in a Catalan-from-English translation and then in a Spanish-from-Polish translation, but I still can't picture the aliens. Are them microscopical and live buried underground? Are them massive and mostly inmobile and the protagonist just accidentally wounds one of them? Is the whole planet a tapestry of living beings? Or maybe all the aliens are dead, or gone, and what human encounter are just decoys and war machines fighting on their own?

Watch the movie....you will be truly amazed.

Aliens are too different to understand them and that is the point of the story.

Basically its a story about fail - Fiasco.