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Re: Late-breaking news (Community)
Re: Late-breaking news // Community
May 28, 2001, 1:48pm
Of course it happens right when I drop SETI and switch to Genome. :) Very original.
[View Quote]"tyrell" <tyrell1 at sk.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:3B1252B9.1B118A7C at sk.sympatico.ca...
SETI RESEARCHERS ANNOUNCE RECEIVING THE FIRST MESSAGE FROM AN
ALIEN CIVILIZATION
A team at UC Berkeley has been distributing data gathered by the
Arecibo Radio Telescope in northwestern Puerto Rico to home
computers since early 1999 in a distributed computing project
designed to ferret out possible signals from an extraterrestrial
civilization.
Those signals have been found! Project leader Seth Liver says,
"We detected the signal on May 15 at 9:48 PM. Our first reaction
was to announce the discovery to the press immediately, but we
collectively decided to wait until translation efforts could
begin.
"We soon discovered the ETs used the universal language of
mathematics to encode a primer into the message, making full
translation surprisingly easy."
What follows is the full content of the first message ever
received by an alien civilization:
SEND 5 TIMES 10 TO THE 50 ATOMS OF HYDROGEN TO THE STAR SYSTEM AT
THE TOP OF THE LIST, CROSS OFF THAT STAR SYSTEM, THEN PUT YOUR
STAR SYSTEM AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST AND SEND IT TO 100 OTHER
STAR SYSTEMS.
WITHIN ONE TENTH OF A GALACTIC ROTATION YOU WILL RECEIVE ENOUGH
HYDROGEN TO POWER YOUR CIVILIZATION UNTIL THE UNIVERSE
RECOLLAPSES! IT REALLY WORKS! DO THE MATH!
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Tyrell - Alpha Prime - 21.8s 457e 90 - "Mundus vult decipi"
"Eat well, stay fit, die anyway."
http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/ty1/index.html
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All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.
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