The piece is written by science writer Nadia Drake — the daughter of Frank Drake, who designed the message — and it digs into the details of how the whole thing came about. I’ve somehow never read ...

Oh wow, this is cool: an article in Scientific American about the Arecibo message, the first message purposely sent by humanity out into interstellar space. The piece is written by science writer ...

You might benefit from setting up an auto reply for your SMS messages. An auto reply is a feature that automatically sends a predefined message to anyone who texts you, letting them know that you are ...

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 ...

And for those who aren’t at the dining table to hear these words directly, you can always send thoughtful and happy Thanksgiving wishes. This article gives you 70 thoughtful Thanksgiving messages you ...

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

The message was written in binary code and contained information about human DNA. It also included figures of a human, the solar system and the Arecibo telescope. The idea was that if any aliens ...

(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 ...