Software designed to identify and translate messages from aliens has been developed by a British scientist.

Alien Life Form is a software package that compares alien language sounds with those of 60 human languages in the hope that there is a common thread. John Elliott of Leeds Metropolitan University said his software will decipher the structure of their language and be the first step in understanding what any space creatures are saying.
His theory is that even an alien language far removed from any on Earth is likely to have recognisable patterns that could help reveal how intelligent the life forms are.

He told New Scientist magazine that language has to be structured in a certain way, otherwise it will be inefficient and unwieldy.

Previous research has shown that it is possible to determine whether a signal carries a language rather than an image or music, but now Elliott has worked out a way of picking out what might be words and sentences.

Now all they need is an alien to test it on. X

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