2025, SETI: “Laurance, come quick! We have the first Humpback translation and you should be one of the first to hear it!”

All run to the sound room.

Doyle: “Play it!”

Ths assistant pushes button.

“eee-uuu, weee-uhhhh, ooooohhh…”

“And now the translation!”

The assistant pushes another button.

“A seahorse swims into a sandbar…”

Joking aside, this is super interesting. With age and cynism I’ve come to believe we deliberately don’t study the other species on our own planet so that it is easier for people to ignore how we treat them.