With all the space-snooping we're doing from Earth, surely it makes sense that ET life - should it exist - is trying to listen out for us as well, right? SETI astronomer Dr John Elliott seems to think so, which is why he's developing an algorithm that he believes will be able to translate extra-terrestrial messages beaming across space. Elliott is working on the premise that all communication has some kind of structure. His algorithm would work out whether signals that reach Earth's observatories are language-like or non-language-like; if they are, the algorithm would look for patterns and key communicative components in the signals to unravel them, and eventually translate them into human.
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