Girlsway Squirting and Scissoring Transmission

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Hillary Scott and Samantha Rone

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In November 1974, astronomer Carl Sagan was asked to devise a message to beam into space via radio waves.

The message was aimed at a cluster of stars known as M13.

The message consisted of 1,679 binary digits transmitted at a frequency of 2,380 MHz.

The ones and zeros were transmitted by frequency shifting at a rate of 10 bits per second.

The total broadcast lasted less than three minutes and in total made up a single bitmap image.

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On this image, the numbers 1 to 10, the atomic numbers of the elements, hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus,

which is the chemical composition of our DNA, a graphic of the double helix of human DNA,

a map of our solar system indicating which planet is Earth, and lastly, a graphic representation of a human.

Um, that's really interesting, Hilary, but what does that have to do with the sounds you showed me on your laptop earlier?

The sounds I decoded were from the M13 cluster. They were also binary code.

It was an answer back to Carl Sagan's message.

Look.

Hmm.

The answer they sent back is basically the same exact image as the Arecibo message, except they changed certain critical details.

For example, when they listed the chemical composition of their DNA, they changed carbon to silicon.

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