JackGreenEarth to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 7 months agoIf you were tasked with putting together a message to send to space aliens, with the only restriction that the message had to be under 4GB, what would you send?message-square72fedilinkarrow-up157arrow-down16
arrow-up151arrow-down1message-squareIf you were tasked with putting together a message to send to space aliens, with the only restriction that the message had to be under 4GB, what would you send?JackGreenEarth to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 7 months agomessage-square72fedilink
minus-square@z00s@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•7 months agoIt’s kinda cool but not sure why they thought creating a new set of pictograms that aren’t used on Earth was the best method https://xkcd.com/927/
minus-square@AVincentInSpacelinkEnglish3•7 months agoSo that the symbols would be less likely to get corrupted if the aliens received it over a bad radio link
It’s kinda cool but not sure why they thought creating a new set of pictograms that aren’t used on Earth was the best method
https://xkcd.com/927/
So that the symbols would be less likely to get corrupted if the aliens received it over a bad radio link