How would Earth send messages to a starship—or a distant civilization?
Friday, February 14, 2014 - 10:30
in Astronomy & Space
I have a new exercise routine where I watch Star Trek: The Next Generation most mornings of the week while doing my thing. Besides serving as awesome distraction, the episodes do get me thinking about how humans would talk to extraterrestrials. It likely wouldn't be as easy as the show portrays to zoom across space to conduct diplomatic negotiations at the planet "Parliament", for example, so interstellar communication would be a problem.
