The Great Silence

2.5/5

A story about the Arecibo message and non-human intelligence from the perspective of parrots. These intelligent beings quite rightfully highlight that they not only have their own communication methods but are capable of more abstract thinking, and cannot fathom why humans are so obsessed with the great “graveyard” of extraterrestrial life when such extraordinary wonders exist naturally on Earth. For me the main takeaway was to appreciate and further study the flora and fauna that is soon to go extinct here and now, rather than observing another time or place.