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Are we focusing audio signals at aliens and if so, what are we sending? - Atypical - 02-27-2014 03:53 AM
Ive heard we are sending twitter messages and the music of Mozart out to specific stars in space?
Response[edit]
In 2012, on the 35th anniversary of the Wow! signal, Arecibo Observatory beamed a response from humanity, containing 10,000 Twitter messages, in the direction from which the signal originated.[13][14] In the response, Arecibo scientists have attempted to increase the chances of intelligent life receiving and decoding the celebrity videos and crowd-sourced Tweets by attaching a repeating sequence header to each message that will let the recipient know that the messages are intentional and from another intelligent life form.[14]
- Nyx - 02-27-2014 04:02 AM
Yes and the conversation goes something like this -
R U Hot?
(75 years later)
WTF?
- DrDave - 02-27-2014 04:04 AM
NO which negates the second part of your question.
- Starrysky - 02-27-2014 04:09 AM
We are not sending (except for broadcast communications). We are listening. Nothing yet.
If we would send, like in 1974, see Dr. Frank Drake's message. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message
- Dean - 02-27-2014 04:14 AM
We send styilised messages showing us as spiffing chaps and chapesses, so if they turn up here, we can surprise them with our greed and want, and glom their technology.