Eh, if I tweaked the story, it'd probably drive the point home more if the aliens did have a difficult-to-learn-from-scratch system to work with too. Our scien

Eh, if I tweaked the story, it'd probably drive the point home more if the aliens did have a difficult-to-learn-from-scratch system to work with too. Our scientific communities already have the homogenized forms that his hypothetical aliens would actually like.