Teaching Asian Schoolchildren How to Talk to Aliens - io9 Comments

Teaching Asian Schoolchildren How to Talk to Aliens

napthia9 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:40:12 PST

Finally, schoolchildren learn something useful. See, this is why America's public schools are failing!

napthia9

Teaching Asian Schoolchildren How to Talk to Aliens

Plague — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:03:21 PST

Zone 5: my neighborhood.

Plague

Teaching Asian Schoolchildren How to Talk to Aliens

Liz Henry — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:02:26 PST

It would make a great videogame... an alien encounter, and your game character has to figure out how to communicate by squeaking or making fake tentacles and waving them around.

Liz Henry

Teaching Asian Schoolchildren How to Talk to Aliens

MarlboroTestMonkey7 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:03:30 PST

This bodes evil, last month the japanese were announcing powered exoskeletons and now they want us to talk to the aliens. Seems the invasion can't be repelled as planned.

MarlboroTestMonkey7

Teaching Asian Schoolchildren How to Talk to Aliens

tetracycloide — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:22:21 PST

@urukhaifive: yes, contrary to what this article would lead you to believe, the british have advanced well beyond the abilities of the japanese to communicate with aliens. the crown is currently working out a treaty with the extra terrestrials to import their advanced, sentient, self propelled vacumn cleaner technology.

tetracycloide

Teaching Asian Schoolchildren How to Talk to Aliens

CmdrHunt — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:05:39 PST

@braak: Yup! Agreed.

The Japanese will be the ones to benefit from the six-legged slug-amanders advanced technology. Not America. This time.

CmdrHunt

Teaching Asian Schoolchildren How to Talk to Aliens

urukhaifive — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:57:30 PST

I think maybe you meant "aliens in movies" rather than "movies in aliens", unless the aliens happen to have televisions in them. Oh crap. The aliens are the Teletubbies aren't they?

urukhaifive

Teaching Asian Schoolchildren How to Talk to Aliens

strider_mt2k — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:24:35 PST

The pic looks like Jar-Jar's evolutionary cousin.

KILL IT! KILL IT NOW!

strider_mt2k

Teaching Asian Schoolchildren How to Talk to Aliens

gaffeofthecentury — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:58:37 PST

Seriously, how come we don't have anything like this in the states? I hate how close minded we are.

gaffeofthecentury

Teaching Asian Schoolchildren How to Talk to Aliens

braak — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:54:37 PST

Well, when the aliens do finally come, I guess we know which country is going to get to talk to them first.

braak