S.E.T.I. Scientist Wants to Contact Aliens By Beaming The Internet Into Space

This is the basics on what they want to do with sending the internet into space:

One scientist at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, doesn’t want to send just one message: He wants to broadcast billions of messages by transmitting the entire internet into space.

“Such a large corpus — with its text, pictures, videos and sounds — would allow clever extraterrestrials to decipher much about our society, and even formulate questions that could be answered with the material in hand,” Seth Shostak wrote on March 27 in the opinion section of The New York Times.

Is this a worthy idea and will it work?  Obviously no one can say for sure although there are other methods they could use.  Feel free to comment with your ideas.

thanks to eso.org for the pic

And here is a video about the arecibo message we hope you enjoy.



109 Comments

  1. Zackery Dorkopolous Fix said:

    Good luck with that… we would be better off sending them the Google home page URL with a computer that has Chrome installed. This isn’t possible… even with a quantum computer…

  2. Al Arruda said:

    We don’t need to tell other intelligent life how dumb planet Earth is. But it is one way to keep them away. Or, maybe they’ll feel compelled to come and rescue the planet from idiot primates.

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