OTD Precede – November 16: Arecibo Observatory Broadcasts Interstellar Information

.On November 16, 1974, humans sent their initial message to the stars in an attempt to speak to space beings. They did this using what was actually at that point the most extensive radio telescope around the world, situated at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. A group of researchers led by Frank Drake and also Carl Sagan sent their information to the M13 star cluster.

The message was actually filled in binary code and also had information concerning individual DNA. It additionally consisted of numbers of a human, the solar system and the Arecibo telescope. The suggestion was actually that if any type of aliens were actually to receive the sign and figure out how to decipher it, they would recognize where it originated from.

Because M13 is actually 25,000 light-years away, it is going to take 25,000 years for any kind of M13 aliens to hear our information– if they are even out certainly there. The Arecibo information is only one of several messages wanted for e.t.s. Our team have actually likewise featured notifications on numerous space probe, such as Leader as well as Voyager.