one time i had a dream that scientists were able to locate extra-terrestrial communications devices in the bacterial hyper-structures of human gut flora. they had to use a steam powered microscope to discover this.
my pet-fish, bubbles, said that they are really called indigenous microbiota. he's a stickler for accuracy. i'm not sure what the extra-terrestrials called them. maybe organic space-texts.
anyway, they used the communications between the bacteria, through a quorum sensing mechanism that detected homoserine lactones and indicated their presence by producing visible light (sort of like smoke detectors sound an audible alarm, i guess), to send chemical messages to the planet earth. they figured that eventually some sort of intelligent beings would be able to decode them as chemical hieroglyphics. the scientists needed the steam powered microscope to detect the lights.
the problem was, after the scientists discovered them, they didn't know how to write back to the aliens.
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