I thinking making obnoxious noise is a universal sign of... something. It's an extension of cheering.
I'm terrible at words.
My point is that if people do anything noisy after sitting quietly for a presentation, it sends the same message, whether it's stomping, or crashing metal together or any of that stuff.
Imagine what they'd think about the process of sex (presuming the alien species would reproduce asexually).domatron23
Most likely they would produce sexually. Sex results in greater genetic diversity among a population, and it's reasonable to think that this would be the case pretty much EVERYWHERE.
If an organism on ANY planet has gotten to the point where it has sentience and has figured out space travel, then I'm gonna take a leap here and say that those aliens probably reproduce sexually.
I thought of something similar while watching a comedian on TV, it seems so primitive... we pound our hands together because someone did a funny, as if pounding our hands together is our way of saying "hurr durr dat was funny do it again"
I thinking making obnoxious noise is a universal sign of... something. It's an extension of cheering.
I'm terrible at words.
My point is that if people do anything noisy after sitting quietly for a presentation, it sends the same message, whether it's stomping, or crashing metal together or any of that stuff.
SpidersRMe
This.
You're quiet, listening tentatively, then you clap to show that whatever you just sat through actually registered in your brain.
Clapping, cheering, yelling, whistling, stomping, booing, they all send the same message.
If i were an alien in an audience and see the audience clapping to a presentation that i myself have found interesting then i would acknowledge that this for of putting 2 hands together in a quick succession a form of approval or a form of appreciation thus i would clap as well to show that i was interested to.
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