OTD Precede – Nov 16: Arecibo Observatory Broadcasts Interstellar Information

.On Nov 16, 1974, humans sent their very first notification to the celebrities in an attempt to speak to e.t.s. They did this using what was at that point the biggest broadcast telescope worldwide, positioned at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. A group of researchers led through Frank Drake as well as Carl Sagan delivered their message to the M13 galaxy.

The notification was recorded binary code and also included relevant information about individual DNA. It also consisted of numbers of an individual, the solar system and the Arecibo telescope. The suggestion was actually that if any kind of invaders were actually to receive the sign and determine how to decode it, they will understand where it stemmed from.

Given that M13 is actually 25,000 light-years away, it will take 25,000 years for any kind of M13 aliens to hear our message– if they are actually flatten certainly there. The Arecibo information is actually a single of numerous messages wanted for extraterrestrials. Our company have actually additionally included messages on numerous space probe, like Leader and also Voyager.