Aliens would be interested in our music and art, scientists say
Experts think Van Gogh and Bach would be more appealing than Newton or Einstein.
Johann Sebastian Bach. (Photo: Wikimedia) Comments
Well ighuess that it would be a little bit like if we doscover the australian art....even primitive,we had some interrest on these mark of spirituality and consciousness.Art is the reflect of each culture i think.i wonder too what kind of wonder we could see from them XD.
I have always thought that aliens would find our arts more valuable than our science. I recently read, and I wish I could remember where, about a man in South America who had a friendship with a man he thought was Swiss. The fellow was very interested in art and music, but was completely disinterested in a sports match they attended. Later, when the man was abducted to a large craft, he ran into his "Swiss" friend, part of the crew of the craft. The alien's interest in art confirmed what I.... More
We're still so geocentric. What about the possibility that the alien visitors might have art, drama, music, dance, etc or other art forms we haven't dreamed of, that would interest, if not fascinate us? The whole subject of what we could learn from them should be of more interest to us than vice versa. The last chapter of my book "Our Interplanetary Future," deals almost entirely with the myriad of things we might learn from a culture that could be hundreds of thousands, or hundreds of.... More
