OTD Precede – Nov 16: Arecibo Observatory Broadcasts Interstellar Message

.On Nov 16, 1974, humans sent their first information to the celebrities in a try to get in touch with space beings. They did this using what was actually after that the most extensive radio telescope on earth, situated at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. A group of researchers led through Frank Drake and also Carl Sagan delivered their notification to the M13 star cluster.

The message was actually filled in binary code and also consisted of info about human DNA. It likewise featured numbers of an individual, the planetary system as well as the Arecibo telescope. The suggestion was actually that if any type of aliens were to acquire the signal and find out how to decode it, they would recognize where it stemmed from.

Since M13 is 25,000 light-years away, it will take 25,000 years for any kind of M13 invaders to hear our message– if they are actually level there certainly. The Arecibo information is a single of several notifications aimed for extraterrestrials. We have additionally consisted of messages on several space probe, such as Pioneer as well as Voyager.