JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 10 months agoIf you were tasked with putting together a message to send to space aliens, with the only restriction that the message had to be under 4GB, what would you send?message-squaremessage-square82fedilinkarrow-up159arrow-down16
arrow-up153arrow-down1message-squareIf you were tasked with putting together a message to send to space aliens, with the only restriction that the message had to be under 4GB, what would you send?JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 10 months agomessage-square82fedilink
minus-squareAVincentInSpace@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·10 months agoI’m surprised no one has mentioned the actual messages humanity has sent into space in the hopes that aliens will hear it since those are actually pretty cool. I mean look at this crap. Look at how cool it looks. https://www.plover.com/misc/Dumas-Dutil/messages.pdf (I’m on mobile otherwise I’d add a picture)
minus-squarez00s@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·10 months agoIt’s kinda cool but not sure why they thought creating a new set of pictograms that aren’t used on Earth was the best method https://xkcd.com/927/
minus-squareAVincentInSpace@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoSo that the symbols would be less likely to get corrupted if the aliens received it over a bad radio link
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the actual messages humanity has sent into space in the hopes that aliens will hear it since those are actually pretty cool.
I mean look at this crap. Look at how cool it looks. https://www.plover.com/misc/Dumas-Dutil/messages.pdf
(I’m on mobile otherwise I’d add a picture)
It’s kinda cool but not sure why they thought creating a new set of pictograms that aren’t used on Earth was the best method
https://xkcd.com/927/
So that the symbols would be less likely to get corrupted if the aliens received it over a bad radio link