OTD In Space – Nov 16: Arecibo Observatory Broadcasts Interstellar Information

.On Nov 16, 1974, people delivered their initial information to the stars in a try to contact e.t.s. They performed this using what was actually then the most extensive broadcast telescope around the world, located at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. A team of scientists led through Frank Drake as well as Carl Sagan sent their notification to the M13 star cluster.

The message was filled in binary code and contained details about individual DNA. It additionally featured numbers of a human, the planetary system and the Arecibo telescope. The suggestion was actually that if any aliens were actually to obtain the indicator and also determine exactly how to translate it, they would know where it stemmed from.

Considering that M13 is actually 25,000 light-years away, it is going to take 25,000 years for any kind of M13 invaders to hear our message– if they are level certainly there. The Arecibo notification is actually a single of several messages planned for extraterrestrials. We have actually likewise featured information on several space capsule, such as Pioneer and also Voyager.