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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