(June 15, 2015 at 8:28 am)Iroscato Wrote:(June 15, 2015 at 2:21 am)ignoramus Wrote: Just a theoretical q here.
What if Philae landed next to another bot doing the same thing as ours.
Other than physically seeing it, is there any way they/we could communicate in any way, shape or form?
Like...an alien one? I'm unsure of the schematics, but if there were any moving components perhaps there"d be a way to establish a very rudimentary signal simply by moving a component back and forth in a prime number kind of pattern...
We should know by now what happens when an alien probe hooks up with a human probe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6amspVTbdc
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