Do We Need a Special Language to Talk to Aliens?

Published: Nov. 7, 2019, 4:29 p.m.

In May 2018, a radar facility in Troms\xf8, Norway trained its antennas on GJ237b, a potentially habitable exoplanet located 12 light years from Earth. Over the course of three days, the radar broadcast a message toward the planet in the hopes that there might be something, or someone, there to receive it. Each message consisted of a selection of short songs and a primer on how to interpret the contents.