they STILL don’t know for sure…

Galaxy Messier 13 is where it came from if it indeed was real.  The S.E.T.I. program received a mysterious message in the 1970s.  Although there has been a lot of debate, no one can prove the origin with certainty.  It is still a debated topic with a lot of people saying it was a hoax or a misread.  However there are plenty folks who still think this was real:

In 1974, the Arecibo Radio Telescope received a major technological overhaul resulting in a massive boost in transmission power. To celebrate the upgrade, Doctors Frank Drake and Carl Sagan created an instellar greeting message, and translated it into a universally understandable binary code template capable of being transmitted to distant galaxies.

This is absolutely fascinating.  Do you think this is real?  Here is some more background on the findings:

The message is easily rendered into an infographic of humanity.
It starts with a basic binary count from 1 to 10, which serves as a built in decryption key to translate the message into a graphic form.

It then lists the atomic numbers for the most basic chemical elements that make up DNA, and describes the building blocks of DNA by giving the specific nucleotide formulas and showing the double helix DNA structure of every living thing on Earth.

Twenty seven years later, we received a reply.

Let’s find out more about this mysterious potential reply in the video on page 2

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