Recently, scientists decided to conduct a test to understand what would happen if humanity received an “alien message.” Last Wednesday (24), a probe sent such a message from outside Earth, and it arrived in about 16 minutes.

The experiment is part of the A Sign In Space project (a sign in space in Portuguese) created by artist Daniela de Paulis, resident at SETI and the Green Bank Observatory. As Paulis explainsThe message was sent with codes and the purpose is to perform some kind of game.It will bring together people from the academic community and the general public around the world to decipher it.

The message was sent last Wednesday (24) at 16:00 (Brasília time) via a Mars probe of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) mission. In less than 20 minutes, “alien message” data was received by the SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array and the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope and Green Bank Observatory, respectively. The Medical Radio Astronomy Station’s observatory also captured the data.

“The aim of the project is to involve the Extraterrestrial Intelligence Search world community, professionals from different fields and the general public in the process of receiving, decoding and interpreting the message. This process will require global collaboration that combines SETI, space exploration and society issues across multiple cultures and areas of expertise.”

Alien Message Really Sent to Planet Earth

Once received, the data was sent to a private server on the Filecoin website, which allowed anyone to download the files. So enthusiasts can download raw data from observatories and analyze files to try to decode them; the project even provides some instructions on how to analyze the data.

The aim is to show that if planet Earth at some point receives a message from an extraterrestrial civilization, it is important that the data of that message be disseminated to all of humanity. In this way, people from different professions and fields from all over the world can join forces to decipher the data.

“Throughout history, humanity has sought meaning in powerful and transformative phenomena. Receiving a message from an extraterrestrial civilization will be a profoundly transformative experience for all of humanity. Sign in Space explores this scenario through global collaboration, encouraging the search for open meaning across cultures and disciplines. It offers an unprecedented opportunity to concretely rehearse and prepare for it,” explains de Paulis.

Daniela says so deciphering will not be an easy message and for him it is very important for civilization to work in cooperation. No wonder the team at A Sign In Space recommends that the best policy after first contact with aliens is full disclosure.

Source: Tec Mundo

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