Invited by Aliens: Would You Join Them To Their Homeworld?

[trainedobserver]

Originally Posted by waitinginthewings

...Perhaps they are reading our posts here, & maybe they will present us with a "code of conduct" & greeting salutations through the GFL. ...

I don't think that is happening. I mean them reading the Internet , the evening paper or watching Fox News or whatever. From what I can gather, the ETs (or at least the ones making contact) are telepathic and don't use verbal communication or even language as humans do. At least that is the sort of thing that is being reported as I understand it. I might explain why there has never been any open contact in the way we might imagine or desire.

I don't see how a non-telepathic species can interface smoothly with a fully telepathic species. I'm not saying I'm an expert or anything, who would be, but it seems to be fraught with major pitfalls. Like Jacobs is found of saying, the ETs are not only technologically superior, they are neurologically superior, which is a much scarier and uncertain proposition. How do you reliably communicate when your central nervous systems are like apples and oranges?