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Why We Keep Sending Music to Extraterrestrials
Music is an ideal medium for interstellar communication.
Each summer for the past 25 years, tens of thousands of people
have flocked to Barcelona, Spain, to witness Sónar, a three-day
festival dedicated to electronic music, art, and design. Something of a
cross between a TED talk, Burning Man, and Coachella, Sónar has evolved
from a small experiment into an event that the New York Times described
as a “European institution” in 2017. It’s also the closest thing we have to an extraterrestrial envoy.
To celebrate Sónar’s 25th anniversary in 2018, the
festival partnered with the Catalonia Institute for Space Studies and
the nonprofit METI International to send a series of interstellar
messages to Luyten’s star, a red dwarf about 12 light-years from Earth.
Although red dwarfs are the most common stellar objects in our galaxy,
Luyten’s star is remarkable for hosting GJ237b, the closest potentially
habitable planet outside of our own solar system. No one knows for sure
whether GJ237b hosts life, intelligent or otherwise, but if ET does call
the planet home, Sónar wants to rock its socks off.
Over the course of several nights in late 2017 and early 2018,
a radar system in Tromsø, Norway, blasted a custom message from Sónar
toward GJ237b. Like any good correspondence, the message began with a
greeting: In this case, the first 33 prime numbers repeated on two
alternating radio frequencies functioned as a stand-in for “hello.” This
was followed by a brief tutorial that the message designers hoped would
teach ET to extract the music written by Sónar-affiliated musicians and
embedded in the message.
Each song in the Sónar messages is only a few seconds long and might only be called music in the loosest sense of the word. One track
was created by feeding an algorithm music and letting it remix the
notes as it saw fit, which resulted in something that sounds like a
horror movie sound effect. Another uses the atomic numbers
of a handful of oxygen, silicon, and other elements as the frequencies
for pure tones. These arrangements don’t make for easy listening, but
that’s not the point. Instead, the artists use music as a way of
conveying information, whether it’s about our aesthetic sensibilities,
our technology, or our physiology—all topics that would presumably be of
interest to an extraterrestrial recipient.
In many respects, the Sónar messages are on well-trodden
ground. The first human-made object to make it to interstellar space,
the Voyager 1 spacecraft, carries a gold-plated phonographic record that includes Mexican folk music, early rock and roll, a Peruvian wedding song, and more. In 2001, a message sent from the Evpatoria radar in Ukraine included theremin renditions of Beethoven, Vivaldi, and Gershwin; a few years later, NASA blasted a Beatles song at a star 400 light-years away.
But the Sónar messages are unique insofar as they are the only
interstellar transmissions to use songs designed by musicians
specifically for communicating with ET. That the messages include a
substantial information content places them firmly in the tradition of
messaging extraterrestrial intelligences, or METI, a term coined by the
Russian radio astronomer Alexander Zaitsev to differentiate the practice
from other modes of interstellar communication. The Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, is focused on listening for ET
signals rather than sending them, and “active SETI” is about creating beacons that lack information but signal to alien intelligences that we exist.
Historically, interstellar communication has tended toward
formalism, or systems in which elements are manipulated according to
stringent rules. (So a game like chess is highly formalized, whereas
natural language is less so.) For example, the lingua cosmica developed in 1960, the first artificial language for interstellar communication,
is based on a mixture of logic, mathematics, and natural language
syntax. (The Cosmic Call transmissions in 1999 and 2003 used a custom
symbolic language based on the lingua cosmica.) More recently, the Dutch computer scientist Alexander Ollongren proposed a second generation of the lingua cosmica that was derived from lambda calculus, a highly formalized logical system.
These systems lend themselves to straightforward analysis—the
idea is that aliens could tease out the rules of the system without
understanding what the symbols themselves mean. Music is sometimes
perceived as the opposite, ineffable, something that is not so much
understood as felt. But as any musician will tell you, there is also
deep logic inherent to music: There are equal distances between notes in
a scale, notes can be combined in certain ways called harmonics, rhythm
can be expressed in numerical ratios called time signatures, and so on.
Music is a hybrid of logic and emotion, the yin and yang of the human
experience.
In this respect, music is an ideal medium for interstellar
communication, but it must be tailored for transmission across billions
of miles of empty space. When I hear music on Earth my ear is
registering the compression of the surrounding air, but there’s no air
in space so ET can’t hear a musical message directly. The music must
first be encoded into the radio wave in either an analog or digital
format. (Both have been used to send music across interstellar space.)
Music’s inherent formalism suggests that an ET that lacks the ability to
hear could gainfully analyze various elements of music—its rhythm,
pitch, and so on—by studying the way these elements are encoded in radio
waves.
If the goal of METI is to convey information about Earth, neglecting to include music would be a major oversight.
Douglas Vakoch, the founder of the METI Institute and the director of
the Sónar messaging effort, the composer Andrew Kaiser, and Ollongren
have all proposed unique ways for encoding musical concepts in
interstellar messages. For example, Vakoch has suggested a method to use icons to teach musical concepts to aliens.
(Unlike symbols, which bear no resembles to the thing they represent,
icons directly resemble the thing they represent.) So to teach the
concept of rhythm, an interstellar message could be pulsed rhythmically.
And what might an ET learn from its analysis of the formal elements of
music encoded in an interstellar message? According to Vakoch, musical
messages can teach ET quite a bit about human physiology. For example,
the number of notes in a scale can be used to establish how sensitive we
are to differences between notes.
Beyond the practicalities of using music as a basis for an
interstellar message, it’s also worth considering its role in the human
experience. Aspects of music are found in nearly every culture on Earth.
Unlike language, anyone—at least, any human who can hear and/or
perceive rhythm—can “understand” music, even if those who cannot play an
instrument or interpret the notes upon a staff. If the goal of METI is
to convey information about Earth and the people who inhabit it,
neglecting to include music would be a major oversight.
The ubiquity of music on Earth is a good thing, but when it
comes to interstellar messaging it poses a problem: How do we select
which songs to send to ET? Historically, the musical contents of
interstellar messages have been extremely biased toward Western
classical music, which hardly captures the diversity of musical styles
found on our planet. This bias arises from the lack of diversity in the
small committees of individuals responsible for selecting the music for
interstellar transmission. (Jon Lomberg, who helped design the Voyager
golden records, attempted to create a more diverse message for the New Horizons mission, which will be the next to enter interstellar space. But it was not included on the spacecraft.)
But any selection process that only considers already existing
music is bound to suffer from cultural biases. It is simply impossible
to create a corpus of music that represents every cultural group on
Earth or every genre of music. This suggests that intentionally
designing music for interstellar transmission is the most promising path
forward insofar as it would effectively be creating an entirely new
genre of music. Not only would it avoid selection bias, but it opens the
possibility of creating music that carries a maximum amount of
information about the species that created it. This is a radical
departure from music’s typical function of connecting humans with one
another; the new extraterrestrial music would be composed to connect two
entirely different intelligent species across vast expanses of time and
space.
The musical elements of the 2018 Sónar messages were a first
tentative step in the direction of extraterrestrial music, but they
won’t be the last. Earlier this year, the SETI Institute announced its Earthling project,
which is crowdsourcing original music from all around the globe. These
samples will form the basis of a seven-part music composition called
“Earthling” that will be performed at the Allen Telescope Array in
Northern California, the only telescope in the U.S.
dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The Earthling project aims to create a collective composition that represents humanity writ large and will hopefully avoid the bias that has plagued past musical interstellar messages. Although there is no plan to broadcast the composition into the cosmos, the project is can teach us a great deal about how to compose music with an eye toward interstellar communication.
dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The Earthling project aims to create a collective composition that represents humanity writ large and will hopefully avoid the bias that has plagued past musical interstellar messages. Although there is no plan to broadcast the composition into the cosmos, the project is can teach us a great deal about how to compose music with an eye toward interstellar communication.
When Carl Sagan set about designing the Voyager Golden Record,
he understood humanity’s first musical interstellar message was
unlikely to ever be intercepted by an extraterrestrial intelligence.
Nevertheless, he recognized that “launching this bottle into the cosmic
ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet.” The same
holds true for all future musical interstellar messages, even if our
terrestrial melodies never grace an extraterrestrial ear.
Daniel Oberhaus
Last year was a big
one for the alien-hunting community.
There was the declassifying of secret military documents, a ‘flaming’
UFO on Friday 13th and – of course – the ill-fated attempt to storm Area
51.
But even as the year drew to a close, more footage was emerging.
While most of us were eating and drinking too much over the festive
break, conspiracy theorists were debating a 14-minute video filmed on
December 28 showing a cigar-shaped object floating in the sky in the US.
The UFO was filmed above Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport in Arizona and
uploaded to YouTube by conspiracist Disclose Screen The Grimreefar. It
racked up over a thousand views after it was uploaded with commenters
weighing in about what they thought the cylindrical object was.
Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/02/cigar-shaped-ufo-recorded-hovering-near-airport-2019-drew-close-11989530/?ito=cbshare
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MetroUK | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetroUK/
Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/02/cigar-shaped-ufo-recorded-hovering-near-airport-2019-drew-close-11989530/?ito=cbshare
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MetroUK | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetroUK/
Last year was a big
one for the alien-hunting community.
There was the declassifying of secret military documents, a ‘flaming’
UFO on Friday 13th and – of course – the ill-fated attempt to storm Area
51.
But even as the year drew to a close, more footage was emerging.
While most of us were eating and drinking too much over the festive
break, conspiracy theorists were debating a 14-minute video filmed on
December 28 showing a cigar-shaped object floating in the sky in the US.
The UFO was filmed above Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport in Arizona and
uploaded to YouTube by conspiracist Disclose Screen The Grimreefar. It
racked up over a thousand views after it was uploaded with commenters
weighing in about what they thought the cylindrical object was.
Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/02/cigar-shaped-ufo-recorded-hovering-near-airport-2019-drew-close-11989530/?ito=cbshare
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MetroUK | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetroUK/
Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/02/cigar-shaped-ufo-recorded-hovering-near-airport-2019-drew-close-11989530/?ito=cbshare
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MetroUK | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetroUK/
Last year was a big
one for the alien-hunting community.
There was the declassifying of secret military documents, a ‘flaming’
UFO on Friday 13th and – of course – the ill-fated attempt to storm Area
51.
But even as the year drew to a close, more footage was emerging.
While most of us were eating and drinking too much over the festive
break, conspiracy theorists were debating a 14-minute video filmed on
December 28 showing a cigar-shaped object floating in the sky in the US.
The UFO was filmed above Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport in Arizona and
uploaded to YouTube by conspiracist Disclose Screen The Grimreefar. It
racked up over a thousand views after it was uploaded with commenters
weighing in about what they thought the cylindrical object was.
Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/02/cigar-shaped-ufo-recorded-hovering-near-airport-2019-drew-close-11989530/?ito=cbshare
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MetroUK | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetroUK/
Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/02/cigar-shaped-ufo-recorded-hovering-near-airport-2019-drew-close-11989530/?ito=cbshare
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MetroUK | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetroUK/
NEW ZELAND - UFOs, mysterious creatures - 7 strange things that happened in 2019
From mysterious creatures to strange sightings, here are seven odd things that happened across the country in 2019.
1. Mysterious creatures discovered
On 6 February the NZ Herald reported that an Auckland man was baffled after his mother discovered alien-like looking creatures on her kitchen floor.
The man, Tim Clerke, shared a video of the weird creatures to Facebook, asking people if they knew what they were.
One person responded that it could be miniature bats, another said it could be mutant mice, but Clerke thought it was something more alien-like.
However insect expert Eric Edwards said it was possible the unknown specimens could be rat-tailed maggots but wasn't entirely sure.
The mysterious creatures have still not been identified and so the debate continues.
2. A UFO sighting?
In March a bizarre 'UFO' sighting at a west Auckland beach left a couple terrified.
A person was at Karekare Beach on 31 March when they saw strange lights in the sky, Newshub reported.
The person posted to Reddit: "We were on the beach, my boyfriend and I, and saw two bright orange/red lights far on the other end of the beach.
"In a matter of seconds, one of the lights started moving at full speed, in a straight line, no more that 200m above the water until directly in front of us."
The person said after two minutes the strange object moved away, but then they spotted five more objects surrounding them at the beach.
They fled and then posted to social media to ask if anyone else had had a similar experience that day.
Some said it could have been Chinese lanterns or meteorological equipment, but others believed it was evidence of something unexplainable, Newshub reported.
3. A 'loud rumble' in the south
Many people in the South Island were baffled by a loud rumble on 16 May.
Hundreds of Facebook users took to the Dunedin News Facebook page to figure out what the sound was.
The noise was reportedly heard along much of the Otago coastline and inland as far as Outram, Middlemarch, Palmerston and even Queenstown, the Otago Daily Times reported.
A Dunedin resident told the Herald it sounded like a cannon firing on Anzac Day and also thought it was an earthquake but there was no shake.
The next day MetService confirmed there was a lightning strike off the coast of Otago, which would have been the likely cause of the loud rumbling noise.
MetService communications meteorologist Lisa Murray said it was probably just what's called a squat thunder storm, where the cold air from the land was warmed quite a lot by the sea air.
4. Alien-like noises
An Auckland resident reported hearing a "mythical" creature making 'alien-like' noises outside her Mt Albert property on 24 June.
The resident posted a video to Facebook of a spine-chilling noise that could be heard in her garden, Newshub reported.
While some commentators were horrified, others thought it could just be a possum.
Newshub reported that a spokesperson from the Department of Conservation confirmed the alien-like noise was a possum.
"Definitely a possum, they normally make this sound when they've met another one."
5. 'Big flaming ball'
A woman in Auckland reported witnessing a "big flaming ball" shooting over the city on 23 July.
Jamie Creedon said she witnessed what she believed to be a meteorite over Albany, in north Auckland.
"I have never seen anything like it. I thought 'oh a shooting star' but it was massive and I could hear the whirr sound," she told the NZ Herald.
"It then disappeared completely. I actually thought I was going crazy."
She was not the only one, Stardome Observatory in Auckland confirmed that it had received several reports of the sighting.
"Reports suggest it was unusually low in the sky, which is certainly possible if it was taking longer to burn out," a spokesperson told the Herald.
6. Meteor sighting
On 9 September a Paekakariki man reported spotting a meteor off the Kāpiti Coast, which was likely a meteor that was also spotted over Nelson.
Gary Wheaton told Stuff: "It was like a streak of light screaming across the sky."
He initially thought it was a flare from a boat but realised it was far too high.
Police confirmed they were called about what appeared to be a boat flare but said it was more likely it was a meteor, Stuff reported.
Residents in Nelson city and in the small town of Wakefield also reported seeing a meteor with an orange tail blaze a path eastward across the region.
Duncan Steel, of the Centre for Space Science Technology in Alexandra, said the meteor seen would have been enough to "light up the night sky" if it had happened later, and would be referred to by the technical term "fireball".
He told Stuff that the meteor could have been a "natural" meteorite, but said it was also very likely, given the direction it was travelling, for it to have been a piece of "space junk".
7. Strange bangs
In the Bay of Plenty on 11 October residents posted to a number of Tauranga Facebook pages reporting that loud, sudden bangs were keeping them awake.
They complained of hearing the noise as late as 11pm and as early as 5am, the Bay of Plenty Times reported.
One person said it sounded like a firecracker while another said his dog would not come out from under the deck as the noise echoed in the area.
The Western Bay of Plenty Council said it had received multiple calls.
Its compliance and monitoring manager Alison Curtis said the noise was just the annual orchard "bird scarers" and was nothing for people to be frightened of.
Curtis told the Bay of Plenty Times it was a "useful tool for orchardists to scare birds off the buds on kiwifruit orchards".
"From mid-August to mid-October is the time when orchardists use bird scarers frequently as that is budding time on their orchards," she said.
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1. Mysterious creatures discovered
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An Auckland man and experts
have been left baffled after his mother discovered alien-like looking
creatures on her kitchen floor.
Photo: Facebook/Tim Clerke
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On 6 February the NZ Herald reported that an Auckland man was baffled after his mother discovered alien-like looking creatures on her kitchen floor.
The man, Tim Clerke, shared a video of the weird creatures to Facebook, asking people if they knew what they were.
One person responded that it could be miniature bats, another said it could be mutant mice, but Clerke thought it was something more alien-like.
However insect expert Eric Edwards said it was possible the unknown specimens could be rat-tailed maggots but wasn't entirely sure.
The mysterious creatures have still not been identified and so the debate continues.
2. A UFO sighting?
In March a bizarre 'UFO' sighting at a west Auckland beach left a couple terrified.
A person was at Karekare Beach on 31 March when they saw strange lights in the sky, Newshub reported.
The person posted to Reddit: "We were on the beach, my boyfriend and I, and saw two bright orange/red lights far on the other end of the beach.
"In a matter of seconds, one of the lights started moving at full speed, in a straight line, no more that 200m above the water until directly in front of us."
The person said after two minutes the strange object moved away, but then they spotted five more objects surrounding them at the beach.
They fled and then posted to social media to ask if anyone else had had a similar experience that day.
Some said it could have been Chinese lanterns or meteorological equipment, but others believed it was evidence of something unexplainable, Newshub reported.
3. A 'loud rumble' in the south
Many people in the South Island were baffled by a loud rumble on 16 May.
Hundreds of Facebook users took to the Dunedin News Facebook page to figure out what the sound was.
The noise was reportedly heard along much of the Otago coastline and inland as far as Outram, Middlemarch, Palmerston and even Queenstown, the Otago Daily Times reported.
A Dunedin resident told the Herald it sounded like a cannon firing on Anzac Day and also thought it was an earthquake but there was no shake.
The next day MetService confirmed there was a lightning strike off the coast of Otago, which would have been the likely cause of the loud rumbling noise.
MetService communications meteorologist Lisa Murray said it was probably just what's called a squat thunder storm, where the cold air from the land was warmed quite a lot by the sea air.
4. Alien-like noises
An Auckland resident reported hearing a "mythical" creature making 'alien-like' noises outside her Mt Albert property on 24 June.
The resident posted a video to Facebook of a spine-chilling noise that could be heard in her garden, Newshub reported.
While some commentators were horrified, others thought it could just be a possum.
Newshub reported that a spokesperson from the Department of Conservation confirmed the alien-like noise was a possum.
"Definitely a possum, they normally make this sound when they've met another one."
5. 'Big flaming ball'
 |
'Big flaming ball' thought to be a meteorite sighted over Auckland.
Photo: NZME
|
A woman in Auckland reported witnessing a "big flaming ball" shooting over the city on 23 July.
Jamie Creedon said she witnessed what she believed to be a meteorite over Albany, in north Auckland.
"I have never seen anything like it. I thought 'oh a shooting star' but it was massive and I could hear the whirr sound," she told the NZ Herald.
"It then disappeared completely. I actually thought I was going crazy."
She was not the only one, Stardome Observatory in Auckland confirmed that it had received several reports of the sighting.
"Reports suggest it was unusually low in the sky, which is certainly possible if it was taking longer to burn out," a spokesperson told the Herald.
6. Meteor sighting
On 9 September a Paekakariki man reported spotting a meteor off the Kāpiti Coast, which was likely a meteor that was also spotted over Nelson.
Gary Wheaton told Stuff: "It was like a streak of light screaming across the sky."
He initially thought it was a flare from a boat but realised it was far too high.
Police confirmed they were called about what appeared to be a boat flare but said it was more likely it was a meteor, Stuff reported.
Residents in Nelson city and in the small town of Wakefield also reported seeing a meteor with an orange tail blaze a path eastward across the region.
Duncan Steel, of the Centre for Space Science Technology in Alexandra, said the meteor seen would have been enough to "light up the night sky" if it had happened later, and would be referred to by the technical term "fireball".
He told Stuff that the meteor could have been a "natural" meteorite, but said it was also very likely, given the direction it was travelling, for it to have been a piece of "space junk".
7. Strange bangs
In the Bay of Plenty on 11 October residents posted to a number of Tauranga Facebook pages reporting that loud, sudden bangs were keeping them awake.
They complained of hearing the noise as late as 11pm and as early as 5am, the Bay of Plenty Times reported.
One person said it sounded like a firecracker while another said his dog would not come out from under the deck as the noise echoed in the area.
The Western Bay of Plenty Council said it had received multiple calls.
Its compliance and monitoring manager Alison Curtis said the noise was just the annual orchard "bird scarers" and was nothing for people to be frightened of.
Curtis told the Bay of Plenty Times it was a "useful tool for orchardists to scare birds off the buds on kiwifruit orchards".
"From mid-August to mid-October is the time when orchardists use bird scarers frequently as that is budding time on their orchards," she said.
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Strange Unidentified Object UFO in South Carolina Sky
Source video: Kymberleigh Jordan
Video of a comet-like object reportedly seen over South Carolina has found its way to YouTube, resulting in a growing number of conspiracy theories about secret government surveillance of UFOs.
It shows something streaking across the sky, but the object appears to be stationary. Meanwhile, what seems to be a passing aircraft flies behind it, and their white trails cross about one minute into the video.
Among the theories is the second craft was a government “spotter plane” sent to investigate a potential UFO.
Kymberleigh Jordan posted the undated video about six weeks ago, calling it a “strange unidentified object.”
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