Thursday, February 18, 2010

Aliens and the Classification Thereof

Yesterday's post on uncontacted people and the concluding sentence about the possible futility of trying to converse with them reminded me of some old, basic ideas from science fiction about aliens: human/humanoid, "starfish," and the latter's starfish language.  Maybe trite space opera tropes, maybe mind-expanding concepts, maybe both.  For my eyes and ears though the the last speaker of Bo, while undeniably human, sounded very starfish-ish.  Was that singing?  Or was she just speaking normally?

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