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Cosmic Rosetta Stone
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California, USA (SETI institute): Papers at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Atlanta, Georgia, last month will be sobering for SETI enthusiasts: it may be much more difficult to understand extraterrestrials than many scientists have thought before.
One of the sessions was called “Anthropology, Archaeology, and Interstellar Communication: Science and the Knowledge of Distant Worlds,” with papers on astronomy, archaeology, anthropology, and psychology. Is there a Cosmic Rosetta Stone, they asked, drawing parallels to Earth’s own Rosetta Stone, which provided the key to decoding Egyptian hieroglyphics? Will we ever find a comparable primer for decrypting any messages we might receive some day from extraterrestrials?
For more information, please visit:
www.seti.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=ktJ2J9MMIsE&b=194993&ct=363416
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