Dave Wolf wrote: >I can't help wondering if these aliens might try to decipher Bach's >music as language and dismiss human speech as too monotonous to contain >information? And what message they might decide the music contains. This is interesting. Why should they regard human language as more "monotonous" than music? That would be a very romantic race of aliens, indeed. According to that premise, the sound of a modem connecting at 56 kbps would be totally unmeaningful to these gentlemen. If it's so, the question then becomes: how did they come upon the Voyager, unless it stroke some alien's head? Pablo Massa [log in to unmask]