APOD: 2020 May 3 - A Message from Earth

Maj William W. 'Bill' Price I have said it before and I will say it again, " no one does it better from above". Thank you for the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "A Message from Earth." Also called the Arecibo Message, this graphic represents the contents of the message transmitted towards the globular cluster Messier 13 on November 16, 1974.

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Great APOD share today- good morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price

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Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Sunday, May 3, 2020 entitled "A Message from Earth." from Wikimedia of all places :-)
1. The image brings to mind my Boolean logic training as a USMA cadet in electrical engineering as we learned about machine language - pre DOS.
2. This image uses color which may or may not be received in the same nuances that it was sent if the visual frequency range is significantly different that our own :-)
3. As my friend 1SG Steven Imerman, the assumption that this message would be received from a peaceful contact is fraught with gullibility IMHO. :-)

Image: A Message from Earth
Image Credit: Frank Drake (UCSC) et al., Arecibo Observatory (Cornell U.) - - License: Arne Nordmann (Wikimedia)
"Explanation: What are these Earthlings trying to tell us? The featured message was broadcast from Earth towards the globular star cluster M13 in 1974. During the dedication of the Arecibo Observatory - still one of the largest single radio telescopes in the world - a string of 1's and 0's representing the diagram was sent. This attempt at extraterrestrial communication was mostly ceremonial - humanity regularly broadcasts radio and television signals out into space accidentally. Even were this message received, M13 is so far away we would have to wait almost 50,000 years to hear an answer. The featured message gives a few simple facts about humanity and its knowledge: from left to right are numbers from one to ten, atoms including hydrogen and carbon, some interesting molecules, DNA, a human with description, basics of our Solar System, and basics of the sending telescope. Several searches for extraterrestrial intelligence are currently underway, including one where you can use your own home computer."
Thank you my friend Maj Marty Hogan for mentioning me.

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