NASA prepares to send a new message to aliens

A group of scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory believes that it is necessary to send a new message to representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations

This new message, called “Beacon in the Galaxy” will be the “successor” to the radio signal that was sent in 1974 from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

As reported by Forbes Magazine, “Beacon in the Galaxy” is an updated message sent from the Arecibo Observatory. It contained information about humanity, our technological advances, and our place in space in simple graphical terms.

Its duration is 169 seconds and consisted of 1679 digits. The new message will also be encoded in binary.

So far, he’s on his way to his destination. It was sent to the globular star cluster M13, located at a distance of 25,000 light-years from us in the constellation Hercules. It was sent at a wavelength of 126 mm.

As the radio signal travels at the speed of light, the message has so far traveled only 48 light-years, or 0.2%, to its intended target.

Scientists used basic mathematical and physical concepts for this message, which, in their opinion, are a universal means of communication and this message can be deciphered by representatives of extraterrestrial intelligence.

Binary encoding of signals, the simplest and probably universal mathematical form for all intelligent species in the universe, and communication that focuses almost entirely on mathematics and physics.

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NASA scientists encrypted the following information in a new message to extraterrestrial intelligence:

Information on the biochemical composition of life on Earth. This information includes an image of the four basic components of DNA: adenosine, cytidine, guanosine and thymidine.
A timeline from the Big Bang to show exactly when the message was sent. Scientists have also indicated the dates of appearance of the main scientific achievements of humanity. Among them are Newton’s laws, Einstein’s theory of relativity, the beginning of space flight and the landing of a man on the moon.
Location of the solar system in the Milky Way, showing distances to known globular clusters. This is necessary so that representatives of extraterrestrial civilization know where to send a response and how long to wait for comments.
Digitized images of the solar system and the Earth’s surface.
Digitized images of people.
Reply to this message with an image of a radio telescope transmitting a signal.
How will a new message be sent to space for aliens?
A message encoded in binary code will be sent using one of the two telescopes on Earth, or with the help of the FAST radio telescope, also known as “Tianyang”, located in the Chinese province of Guizhou.

However, there is a small problem so far: both FAST and ATA can only receive radio messages, not send them, but future updates will fix this.

As we can see, they did it again. Scientists do not have expert opinion and decide for themselves.

We just have to remember the words of physicist Stephen Hawking, who said before his death that we should probably stop trying to contact aliens, because reaching advanced civilizations could put humanity and Earth in a pretty dangerous situation.

Despite Hawking’s extraordinary effort to find intelligent life in the Universe, he was one of the most outspoken critics of trying to communicate with them, an act he argued could endanger humanity because a distant alien civilization might view us as inferior. , weak and perfect. to conquer.