Brit boffin ready to start translating alien messages
A computer programme which could identify and translate messages from aliens has been developed by a British scientist who believes alien languages should have "recognisable patterns".
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October 20, 2008 10:32 AM
A computer programme which could help identify and even translate messages from aliens in outer space has been developed by a British scientist.
John Elliott of Leeds Metropolitan University believes he has come up with software which would compare an alien language to a database of 60 different languages in the world to search see if it has a similar structure.
He believes that even an alien language far removed from any on Earth is likely to have recognisable patterns that could help reveal how intelligent the life forms are.
"Language has to be structured in a certain way otherwise it will be inefficient and unwieldy," he told New Scientist magazine.
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