Explanation:
If Earth received this
message from deep space, could we
decode it?
The people from the
Cosmic Call project sent the
above image as the first page of a longer message.
The
message
was broadcast
toward local stars by
radio telescope
during the summer of 1999.
Another message was
sent in 2003.
The single-dish, 70-meter diameter telescope that send the
messages
is located in
Ukraine on the
Crimean peninsula near the town of
Yevpatoria.
This first page of the
Cosmic Call 1999
message, shown above, involves only numbers and so is
easier for puzzle solvers to decode than a
more famous message broadcast
toward distant star cluster M13 in 1974.
(The solution is
here.)
digg_url = 'http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090712.html'; digg_skin = 'compact';
