Editor’s note: when we start to explore the oceans on other worlds we will need to be ready to utilize a wide range of detection methods optical, auditory – and […]
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CETI / SETI: The Phonology Of Sperm Whale Coda Vowels
Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) communicate using series of clicks known as codas. In previous research, sperm whale codas have been shown to resemble human vowels acoustically.
Posted inAI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Intelligence & Language, Press Release, SETI & Technosignatures, Societal Issues, Tricorders & Sensors, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
SETI/CETI Tricorder Tech: Tapping Into Whale Talk
Say you want to listen in on a group of super-intelligent aliens whose language you don’t understand, and whose spaceship only flies by Earth once an hour. It’s not unlike […]
Posted inGaia - Planetary Perspectives, Intelligence & Language, Press Release, ROVs/Submersibles/Diving, SETI & Technosignatures, Societal Issues, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
WhaleSETI: Curious Humpback Whales Approach Humans And Blow Nubble “Smoke” Rings
A team of scientists from the SETI Institute and the University of California at Davis documented, for the first time, humpback whales producing large bubble rings, like a human smoker […]