This is some of the incredible discovery and a pic below:

 The signal was a million times stronger than the typical TV transmission. You can see the message in the cover photo (above), 21 years later in 2001, the crop circle phenomenon gained some well deserved attention when a pattern in the form of a response to the 1974 broadcast appeared right next to Britain’s largest telescope, the Chilbolton, and observatory, home to the world’s largest fully steerable meteorological radar. It’s one of the most amazing crop circles to ever appear, regardless of whether you believe it was done by human beings or an extraterrestrial intelligence

Examined closely this looks like a message back, potentially because of its similarity to the one we sent out.  What are the chances of that being one of the first major crop circles to be seen.  What do you think?

And here is an update from 2013 related to the message:

In 2013, the Lone Signal METI project transmitted a crowdsourced stream in tandem with a Lincos-inspired computational message toward the red dwarf star Gliese 526. I served as the chief science officer of the project and worked with our programmers, engineers, and marketers to develop a website that would collect texts and images from the public and queue them for transmission through the 30-meter Jamesburg Earth Station in Carmel Valley, Calif. The goal of this project was to transmit an authentic METI signal toward a nearby star system with the potential to harbor habitable planets. With the transmission’s destination just over 17 light-years away, the time for the signal to reach its goal is short enough that we could hope for a reply within our lifetime.

This effort at public engagement also sought to profit by selling additional messages in the public feed beyond each person’s free allotment. Ideally, this crowdfunded model would be sufficient to sustain the METI beacon and create the first long-term intentional signal intended for interstellar communication. Initial investment in this venture came from the New York City fashion photography industry, which sustained the project until its launch. However, the website failed to attract enough paying visitors, despite an abundance of press coverage and popular interest, and the transmission was sent only once before the project closed up shop for good. Some of the failures of this project were internal: Poor project management, lack of strong leadership, and scant funding can be detrimental to any business. Perhaps a greater lesson from the termination of Lone Signal is the need for broad community support well in advance of transmission, along with secured funding that can be sustained for the duration of a long-term project such as METI.

It gives you even more to ponder.

Here is a cool video below about the arecibo message..

thanks to collective-evolution.com for the great info

thanks to the boston globe for the great info

thanks to jedi simon for the great pic