In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language ...

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In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same ...

(via PBS Space Time) Imagine a world where humanity masters every planetary resource available to it—our first step on the famous Kardeshev scale of technological advancement. How distant is that step ...