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Scientists claim to have successfully ‘conversed’ with a whale (www.independent.co.uk)

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Scientists at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti) in the US claim to have conversed with a humpback whale in Alaska as a proxy for communicating with aliens.

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They found that while most of the whales ignored the recorded calls, one of them – a female named Twain – circled the scientists’ boat, mimicking the noises for about 20 minutes.

Researchers are not entirely sure what the recorded call meant, but suspect it is a kind of “contact call” that whales use to call each other.

“It might have just been us saying hello, and her responding hello, and us saying hello again,” Dr Walker explained.

“We believe this is the first such communicative exchange between humans and humpback whales in the humpback ‘language,’” study lead author Brenda McCowan said in a statement.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How's the old search for extraterrestrial life going?

Badly.

Well how about, and hear me out now, we go and talk to some whales.

Oh, do we understand what they say?

Well no, but we get out of the lab and mess about in boats.

[–] SacralPlexus 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Where do I sign up?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

The pier.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You don't sign up you get abducted.

[–] Beetschnapps 2 points 9 months ago

Why are you so eager for this? Why keep desperately clamoring for this?