A group of us DJ friends used to say "we speak alien" which was a comment about the type of music we played. There's a group by the name of Eat Static which is known for their prolific use of aliens trope and 50s style sci-fi samples that has an album titled "Abduction". One of the tracks is called "Gulf Breeze" which at one point was famous for the most reports of alien abductions. I always wanted to spend a night playing music on the beach waiting for the aliens to make an appearance as it seemed to be the most likely of places for it to happen.

Just a random story on a bored sunday

I propose we use Cardi B, Beyoncé, Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift to keep hostile aliens away from earth.

The turntablist Mix Master Mike (Beastie Boys, Invisibl Skratch Pikls) used to say that his scratches were an attempt to speak to aliens.

"In sending out music, the idea was to communicate that sense of humanness, that feeling and drive, that ecstasy."

Somehow, this makes perfect sense.

On a related note, here’s a paper by (Hugo award winner) David Brin that I came across recently that talks about why we do not hear communications from other life forms in our galaxy. Not being found is a pretty good strategy for survival:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Brin/publication/...

Aliens won’t bother unless a warp drive leaves a hyper jump signature.

cant talk about using music to contact aliens without mentioning https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Spiegel

truthfully if i was not of this world and heard Fela Kuti being broadcasted into the cosmos i'd be coaxed into coming to Earth. those are some damn good vibrations!

They only listen to whale songs

Am I the only one that thinks it's not a good idea? I mean the signal hasnt traveled very far, but yeah these announcements "hey, we're here" aren't very nice.

I personally believe METI practitioners are extremely arrogant ideologues. They've decided that they speak for the entire world, the entire human race, and that they can risk all life on this planet. They think they know better than everyone else, they think they're smart enough, when in reality they truly know nothing about what else is lurking out there in the universe, just like the rest of us.

The only rational, safe, approach is silent observation of the universe for now, at least the best we can, until we have more data, but they give the rest of us the finger and just start blasting signals into the void. It's borderline evil. There's numerous groups, not individuals, who actively plan on blasting out really powerful signals in the near future and they don't care what the rest of us think.

When you say "it", do you mean this one individual with his one radio transmitter, or do you mean the collective practice of humanity in its billions using radio transmissions?

I used to think I was the only one, but now it seems we are two at least. In fact the main reason we haven't discovered advanced civilizations on other planets is likely that they learned not to disclose it - the hard way...

Agreed. Horrible idea to broadcast our position like this. But hella exciting

I think music is the perfect solution.

Have you read the three body problem?