Arecibo Message
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A message broadcast into space from the Arecibo Observatory, carefully designed with pixelation to be interpretable by an alien civilization, even without knowing their compression algorithms.
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David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds | Lex Fridman Podcast #355
Lex Fridman
A message broadcast into space from the Arecibo Observatory, carefully designed with pixelation to be interpretable by an alien civilization, even without knowing their compression algorithms.
Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin | Lex Fridman Podcast #279
Lex Fridman
A binary message sent into space by the Arecibo telescope, discussed as an attempt at universal communication that makes many assumptions about alien understanding of concepts like binary and zero.