OTD Precede – November 16: Arecibo Observatory Broadcasts Interstellar Information

.On November 16, 1974, humans delivered their first message to the celebrities in an attempt to talk to space beings. They performed this utilizing what was then the most extensive radio telescope in the world, located at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. A group of experts led through Frank Drake and Carl Sagan sent their information to the M13 star cluster.

The information was recorded binary code and had information about individual DNA. It also included numbers of an individual, the planetary system as well as the Arecibo telescope. The tip was actually that if any kind of invaders were to receive the sign and figure out just how to translate it, they would certainly recognize where it originated from.

Due to the fact that M13 is 25,000 light-years away, it will certainly take 25,000 years for any sort of M13 invaders to hear our message– if they are actually level certainly there. The Arecibo information is actually only one of a number of notifications planned for e.t.s. We have also included messages on many space probe, such as Trailblazer as well as Voyager.