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- Fuzzycop, on 07/12/2009, -2/+17It says, "If you can read this, you're not getting enough sex.".
- bigbangbuddha, on 07/12/2009, -1/+7I played that game! Whatever yo do don't give the gold to the dwarf, he just runs off with it.
- danesis, on 07/12/2009, -1/+6intergalactic porn waiting to happen...I think this is the only image in the entire transmission they might actually understand.
http://www.matessa.org/~mike/dutil/p15.html - AnalyzeUranus, on 07/12/2009, -1/+6That looks like cyrillic to me. The commies have beaten us to the alien ideological brain-washing game! Now we are forced to fight communism in space too!
- oriondr, on 07/12/2009, -0/+4The idea is a universal, easy to understand set of symbols, English is extremely complex compared to that set of symbols. After a couple seconds of looking at that chart you can start to understand it.
- AmnesiacJack, on 07/12/2009, -0/+4We're like lost children in a dark alley broadcasting to the universe that our parents have left us alone and with cash.
- GodAImighty, on 07/12/2009, -1/+5Looks like an interesting game of Galaga
- Bobski, on 07/12/2009, -1/+523 pages were sent - here you can find them all:
http://www.matessa.org/~mike/dutil-dumas.html - koshythomas, on 07/12/2009, -1/+4Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. - Bill Watterson
- shig, on 07/12/2009, -1/+4See? Scientists talk to invisible sky people too.
- Jpeg2600, on 07/12/2009, -1/+4Somebody somewhere just said something like "***** that it's too hard, i'll point my dish elsewhere"
- Junkyarddawg, on 07/12/2009, -3/+6It is a really, really, bad idea to broadcast blindly: someone might hear it. If history has taught us one thing, it's that when two civilizations meet the less advanced one gets to regret it greatly and briefly.
- gordoncam1, on 07/12/2009, -2/+4Was the number 13 skipped on purpose? The debate on some distant planet over why Eartlings don't use the number 13 would be fun to watch.
- Yeyui, on 07/12/2009, -0/+2Um, I see 13 right between 11 and 17 where it belongs...
- skelooth, on 07/12/2009, -0/+2or they want to eat our brains. Just sayin'
- skelooth, on 07/12/2009, -0/+1I see your nature of mankind theory and raise you a nature of nature. Everything in nature is part of a food chain hierarchy. I have no reason to believe that "nature" would be much different regardless of stellar origin. Let's hope if an Alien race does hear our calls, they are the equivalent of a pack of hippos that like birds to hop around on their backs, as opposed to a hive of Praying Mantis'.
- lightspeedsquar, on 07/12/2009, -0/+1Whats 6 and 7 ? Numbers are near infinite in that message. But still, Dumb dumb dumb. We cant destroy our species without letting somone /thing know we were here. If thier dumb enough to respond it likely will come back at light speed too. We should be long gone by then! Without warping space, there's no comunicating or contact of any kind going to happen. Just to far to cycle. Generations
- oriondr, on 07/12/2009, -0/+1He's right lol
- Nebarik, on 07/13/2009, -1/+2it looks a little like ancient writing from stargate
- B1665r, on 07/12/2009, -1/+2The good news is, if they come and wipe us it, it is because they perceive us as a threat, because if they can cross the distances between the stars then they don't need our resources. They cracked that nut a long time ago.
- noupsell, on 07/12/2009, -5/+6What the ***** are we? Aliens? Whatever happened to good old fashioned plain English? The message should be a simple one. "Yoo Hoo? Find us and dominate us with your superior intellect and firepower."
- Yeyui, on 07/12/2009, -1/+2The last line on the first page is likely going to give aliens some trouble. (Well, a more than the rest of the page anyhow.) I got it after a minute or two, but only because the physical layout of the symbols was the same as usual, and so it "looked" like what it is.
Edit: They'll be fine when they reach page 3. - philojustin, on 07/12/2009, -0/+111, 12, 14, 15 are a few examples for confirmation that our message is using the decimal system and the symbols representing it. Notice it skips from 15 to 20 as well. At this point, any number can be defined.
- B1665r, on 07/12/2009, -0/+1Yummy brains.
- glberns, on 07/12/2009, -1/+2I think that we could decode it. See "Contact".
- madbovine, on 07/12/2009, -1/+1Well, it looks to me that it defines symbols that represent numbers and the message below it are the first twenty four prime numbers. The bottom number is 2^3021077 -1, which as of when the message was sent in 1999, was the largest known prime number (Mersenne 37 to be specific).
This message was sent because a sequence of prime numbers is supposed to be a sign of deliberate intelligence and not some random pattern from the background noise. The Mersenne prime is just to show off our awesomeness, even though in the intervening 10 years we have found 10 larger ones.
EDIT: Just noticed the solution as the last link... Ill leave above exactly as written before I read the solution page. - Dougman82, on 07/12/2009, -1/+1So how does a page like this actually get transmitted? Are we talking an analog television signal, perhaps over UHF bands, or some kind of digital bitmap? I think the first hurdle any aliens would have would not be how to decode the symbols, but how to make sense of the transmission itself. It's not like aliens have old Magnavox television sets or Nokia cell phones.
- inactive, on 07/13/2009, -1/+1IF they are male and female and reproduce the same way as us. No guarantees here.
- inactive, on 07/13/2009, -1/+1Woot! 123 is back! Thank Jebus. Missed ya, buddy.
- andrewtheart, on 07/12/2009, -1/+1lol glad that's settled
- compressedaudio, on 07/13/2009, -1/+1I'm taking a guess here... Does the symbol on the last page mean peace / love?
http://www.matessa.org/%7Emike/dutil/p23.html - compressedaudio, on 07/13/2009, -1/+1I see they resisted the urge to put a smiley face on there.
or did they? http://www.matessa.org/%7Emike/dutil/p15.html
That is deffo a Mona Lisa smile - 123bucklemyshoe, on 07/12/2009, -6/+3Hi sorry if this is the wrong place to ask but are there any new stories about programming on Digg? I'm extremely interested in science and programming but unfortunately right now my recommendation engine is too slanted to the science side of things I think I need a few more programming stories to even out my recommendation engine thanks.
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