Scientists send a message to the Earth's location to aliens, ignoring Hawking's warnings
In the shadow of the mystery surrounding the world of space for humans, a group of scientists created a radio message that requires a high level of intelligence to read in order to send it to outer space, in an effort to be received by aliens living in a world, with intelligence comparable to what humans have. Also, this message is the updated version of the Arecibo message that was previously sent to space.
In fact, this message is not the first of its kind. In 1974, scientists sent a space message through the Arecibo Radio Telescope, located in Puerto Rico, and about the content of that message, it included 1679 units for storing information, which are bits, which are arranged according to 73 lines and 23 characters, and then sent according to a code consisting of the numbers 1 and 0, and once decoded, specific graphics will appear indicating man, planet Earth and what represents the solar system, in addition to the shape of DNA and the Arecibo telescope.
As for the content of the new updated message about the Arecibo message, it includes more information than its predecessor such as related to the foundations of mathematics and science, which require the existence of intelligence similar to humans, and it was called the BITG message.
“The BITG message is an extension of both the Arecibo Message and Cosmic Call, but what's new about it is that it contains graphic information and alphabets,” Cambridge student co-author Matthew Chung told Newsweek. Especially the representation of numbers and DNA, it also represents the earth and its oceans, humans and many other indications about the planet and what is in it.
"The statement of Jonathan Jiang, an official at NASA's JPL Laboratory, also showed that the new message contains indications of some cosmic landmarks indicating the location of the Earth within the Milky Way.
With regard to the news from another angle, this issue has raised the concern of some scientists in the past, as a result of their fears of unknown objects that may receive the message, and the most famous of them is the late physicist Stephen Hawking, who expressed his great concern more than once about the idea of communicating with unidentified external objects for him. for humans.
In 2015, Hawking conducted an experiment to study whether radio waves exist from the ground up outside the globe, so that humans will be able to listen to external waves and know the possibility of the existence of other beings or not, without the need to send any evidence about the Earth world, as he put it that These beings, if they exist, may not be friendly with humans at all, and they may be more powerful, and this may pose a danger to us.
Stephen also followed up on his warnings in 2016 when he pointed out the presence of a strange exoplanet (Gliese 832 c) that could be inhabited by unknown beings and might send us a message one day, but those responsible for responding should be careful what they send them.
Commenting on Stephen's opinion, a participant in the New Message Project called (beautiful huh) stated that the benefits of carrying out this experiment are much more than the risks in her opinion. The message will be at the level of human intelligence or higher than it, and thus he will understand that our message carries the meaning of peace and acquaintance and is not offensive at all, which suggests hope for the return of acquaintance and understanding that comes before him.
As a matter of knowledge, the BITG message has not yet been sent, but it is proposed to send it through the radio telescope located in China, which has a large aperture of 500 meters in height, in addition to the Allen Telescope located in Northern California within the SETI Institute.
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