Conversation isn't the only thing you can do with messages. Alan Turing didn't crack Enigma so that he could have a lovely chat with the Germans. Don't you thi

Conversation isn't the only thing you can do with messages. Alan Turing didn't crack Enigma so that he could have a lovely chat with the Germans. Don't you think there's at least a little bit that could be learned by listening to alien communications from centuries ago, other than the fact that it exists? If such signals were found, would you really stop reading at the headline "alien communication discovered"?