How to communicate with aliens, if we would not know where they live?

Kimmo Huosionmaa

The problem of sending messages to humanoids is very simple, we should know where that expected civilization lives if we would like to send the message to them by using laser or microwave masers. This kind of coherent radiation would be the best way to communicate over long distances, but then we are facing the fact, that the humanoids must be in the route of that beam, and this is the major problem with the attempting to communicate with those species. And the thing is, that we haven't found another civilization yet.

This makes one of the most interesting thing about the SETI-program true, and it's the thing, what is always found the newspapers. It's the thing that somebody claims that "of course there is not another intelligent species in the universe". This is an interesting thing, to talk about. When we are thinking about the situation of science about 20 years ago, we were quite sure, that there were not another stars with planets or planets, where is liquid water in the universe. And today we have found water even from our own solar system.

Here are a couple of moons, where is found liquid water, and we have found species what doesn't need sunlight even from our own planet. Those organisms live near black smokers at the bottom of the sea, and some of those organisms can change their metabolism between aerobic and anaerobic. They can use volcanic heat to make the energy in their cells, and that makes them able to live in the absolute darkness. Maybe similar organisms would be found under the ice of Europe some other icy moon, but those life forms are not necessarily intelligent. Or there is very good change, that they are only some kind of cells.

But in fact, the bacteria could be similar to the neurons. That kind of alien would cover the entire planet, and if it has the same abilities, what the first organisms on earth had, that great nerve-network can cover the entire planet, and that species could be intelligent. Here we are thinking about the species, what lives alone on its planet. It would be totally different than we are. And the intelligence would not mean that this giant alien could have any technology.

In this case, the neuron-alien would not have spacecraft or other technology, because it's alone on its planet. That means that the alien would not have any activities. Maybe that alien seems like some kind of ants or wasps, and it would connect those bodies together when it needs intelligence. But when the feelers are pulling separately, the members of that giant alien could live alone.

This would be an interesting life form, but the problem is, that we have ever met a real alien if we are trusting the public databases. of course, we can think forever the things like, "could government deny the knowledge?".  But before we are claiming that they have aliens in the freezer, we would need to get some evidence about that thing.

And of course, there could be found the bodies, where is about 40% unknown DNA, but that doesn't mean that they are aliens. If the species live alone, it would even know about spacecraft, because if it's one very giant mass on the planet, where it's only species, that alien would not make technology. But if it would get the model of the spacecraft from somewhere, it would try to copy that thing, because, in this hypothetical scenario, the spacecraft would tell the alien, that there would be something else in the world than just being in the planet.

But if the hypothetical spacecraft would land on the planet. it would start to create its own technology in a very fast period. And it could take the bodies of other species under the control, or even control its own evolution. The renewing of single cells of that species would be extremely fast, what means that the evolution would be very fast. The cell mass would live forever, but the single members of the group would be changing extremely fast.