OTD Precede – November 16: Arecibo Observatory Broadcasts Interstellar Information

.On November 16, 1974, people sent their initial notification to the celebrities in a try to talk to space beings. They did this using what was actually then the biggest broadcast telescope worldwide, positioned at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. A group of researchers led by Frank Drake and Carl Sagan delivered their message to the M13 star cluster.

The message was recorded binary code as well as consisted of details about individual DNA. It likewise featured bodies of a human, the planetary system as well as the Arecibo telescope. The idea was that if any sort of aliens were actually to obtain the sign and also figure out how to decipher it, they will recognize where it arised from.

Since M13 is actually 25,000 light-years away, it will take 25,000 years for any M13 invaders to hear our information– if they are flatten certainly there. The Arecibo information is a single of a number of notifications wanted for extraterrestrials. Our team have likewise included information on several spacecraft, like Leader and Voyager.