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If you were tasked with putting together a message to send to space aliens, with the only restriction that the message had to be under 4GB, what would you send? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the actual messages humanity has sent into space in the hopes that aliens will hear it since those are actually pretty cool.

I mean look at this crap. Look at how cool it looks. https://www.plover.com/misc/Dumas-Dutil/messages.pdf

(I'm on mobile otherwise I'd add a picture)

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

https://www.plover.com/misc/Dumas-Dutil/messages.pdf

Again a cringe Word PDF title (why cant this program use normal Titles?)
Why tf didnt they just draw our numbers and instead some crazy art stuff?

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

It's explained in the PDF. If they used normal numbers and letters, the chance of corruption would be high. So they had to reform into the symbols you see.

I still don't get why we use Pi instead of Tau though, when most equations double it up into Tau anyway.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The dimension (physical height, 5'9") of an average man (blue/white)

Well thanks now they think we are all men

[–] z00s@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's kinda cool but not sure why they thought creating a new set of pictograms that aren't used on Earth was the best method

https://xkcd.com/927/

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 3 points 11 months ago

So that the symbols would be less likely to get corrupted if the aliens received it over a bad radio link