Are we one step closer to Dr. Dolittle’s dream of talking to the animals? That’s the impression you might get from a NY Post headline this week announcing a “scientific breakthrough” involving a conversation between humans and whales. And they are hopeful that this sort of communications breakthrough might allow us to one day talk to extraterrestrials or some other sort of “non-human intelligence” if we ever run into one that seems willing to chat. But when you dig into the details of what the scientists actually did to make this “conversation” happen with a humpback whale they named Twain, it’s unclear how much actual communication was going on.
These scientists are trying to make a connection between the deep sea and outer space.
A group of scientists said they had a first-of-its-kind conversation with a humpback whale that could lead to humans communicating…
