(Oliver notified Dad with a binary reply of his own: a coded image of a martini glass, complete with an olive.) For the Arecibo message, Dad constructed his grid as the product of two prime ...

A graphic showing the message is reproduced here. It consists, among other things, of the Arecibo telescope, our solar system, DNA, a stick figure of a human, and some of the biochemicals of earthly ...

And it was a kind of fervency in response that I, I hadn’t been anticipating ’cause, you know, growing up with the Arecibo message [laughs], it’s, it’s in our house—it’s a stained ...

the solar system and the Arecibo telescope itself. Partly because the intended target was far too distant, the message was ...

the message ends with a diagram of the Arecibo radio telescope itself. Should such a message ever reach another civilization and evoke a response, its impact would be world changing. Statistically ...

It's been half a century since astronomers sent what's now known as the Arecibo message: binary code designed to announce ...

Few telescopes will get an emotional response from the general public when it is ultimately announced that they will be decommissioned. In the case of the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo ...

and the most powerful message humans have ever sent out into space all have in common? They all happened at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. With a spherical reflector dish that was 305 ...

The observatory was also responsible for sending the famous Arecibo Message, the most powerful broadcast ever beamed into space and humanity's first true attempt at Messaging Extraterrestrial ...

and while we haven't received a reply, the transmission has inspired a string of similarly optimistic attempts to greet the rest of the universe. The Arecibo message is named after the Arecibo ...