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The Aricebo message
- Thread starter El<(')>Maxi
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Ahahahahahah 
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Yeah, if I got that signal I'd never figure out what it was supposed to mean, especially without line breaks........
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You have to understand that in 1974 in Aricebo Puerto Rico, those guyz were pretty stoned. The best home grown and the best Puerto Rican Rum was available. I know because I'm Puerto Rican and it's my heritage 
Gotta give them credit, at least 1 of those guyz was somewhat sober enough to create that, lol
Gotta give them credit, at least 1 of those guyz was somewhat sober enough to create that, lol
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If they we're feeling that good you would think they might have just filled it up for a really big hot tub party and forgot to transmit. Maybe where they sent it the population is still living in caves, at least they'll have the jump on inventing light-bright if they can't figure it out
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Wikipedia said:
That would explain the lack of colour
Theyd probably flip at seeing something so colourful, then we'd REALLY have an odd looking transmission that youd probably need to be stoned in order to figure it out xDDisclaimer: Im taking the ****.
EDIT: actually, do you use the term "taking the p i s s" in America? Just dawned on me you might have no clue what Im saying
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This is too funny! LOL
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Yellow lego pieces
A side scrolling version of Tetris?
A side scrolling version of Tetris?
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Hmm...a gun (point right) with a ball and chain coming out the butt end of the gun???I love this one...for anyone who hasn't seen the first link, can you tell me what this is supposed to represent?
I love this one...for anyone who hasn't seen the first link, can you tell me what this is supposed to represent?
It represents our sun and the nine planets (when they still classified Pluto as a planet). The third one from the sun is positioned slightly above the rest (and toward the humanoid figure) to indicate that the third planet is the one that the message was sent from.
There was an old DOS program from the 90s called Space Adventure that explained all aspects of this message in detail. The double-helix or whatever is supposed to signify our DNA structure, the upper portion of the message explains how to count in binary, and the purple thing at the bottom represents the Arecibo telescope itself and how the signal was sent. (IIRC)
I thought I might win a cookie (or a beer) for answering it correctly (I didn't see the link until after I posted).
I've always thought it was a cool looking message, but without the color it loses so much of its coolness. There was also a twilight zone episode (from the new series I think) where this lady in a hospital was picking up messages in her head and writing it out on sheet after sheet of paper. At the end of the episode they realize that the message she is receiving is from aliens responding to this message.
I've always thought it was a cool looking message, but without the color it loses so much of its coolness. There was also a twilight zone episode (from the new series I think) where this lady in a hospital was picking up messages in her head and writing it out on sheet after sheet of paper. At the end of the episode they realize that the message she is receiving is from aliens responding to this message.
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Also, they used a matrix of 23 x 73, two prime numbers so that [hopefully] ET can deduce that this is supposed to be a 2D representation.
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Did they ask what the hell we sent them?
Or...
"Your drawing is horrible, do it again and we destroy your planet"
Did they ask what the hell we sent them?
Or...
"Your drawing is horrible, do it again and we destroy your planet"
I can't remember, I saw that episode like ten years ago, but I think it was something along those lines...
EDIT: it might've been an episode of the Outer Limits, I can't remember. I just remember the woman was writing out pages and pages of 1s and 0s that she was hearing in her head, and she was the only person receiving the message.
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El<(')>Maxi said:
Do you remember 1974?
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I do.
