>To: Lars Soezueer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Mersenne: Re: Alien stuff
>Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 22:09:55 -0500
>From: "David J. Fred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >From: Lars Soezueer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >There have been many attempts to construct such languages.
> >I am not aware of any of these projects to be
> >especially designed for communication with aliens.
>
>This is getting a little far afield, but...
>
>Chapter 26 of David Kahn's "The Codebreakers," revised and updated
>1996, touches on several proposed systems.
>
>One called Lincos was created by Dr. Hans Freudenthal of the
>University of Utrecht in the late '50s. Lincos stands for lingua
>cosmica. The language was fully fleshed-out in a book by
>Dr. Freudenthal called "Lincos: Design of a Language for Cosmic
>Intercourse," North-Holland Publishing, 1960.
>
>Another system was proposed by Lancelot Hogben in the early '50s at
>the request of the British Interplanetary Society. His was called
>Astraglossa and was discussed in "The Journal of the British
>Interplanetary Society," IX (November 1952).
>
>It is not entirely clear that either of these would actually be
>practical language systems as described, but it is evident that work
>has been done in this general direction.
I recently been involve in the conception of a message to be send to
extra-terrestrial on May 1 this year. We use the idea develloped by
Freudenthal. However, unlike Freudenthal we use some schema to
help.
By the way, we use prime. On the first page we have a list of prime
and we include the bigest we know: 2^3021377-1.
Yvan Dutil
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