Star Trails: A Weekly Astronomy Podcast · Single Malt Sky
A Postcard to the Cosmos: Recreating the Arecibo Signal
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Could an alien civilization recognize the Arecibo message's human stick figure and DNA helix as meaningful data?
As heard by us
A calm astronomy hour that turns the Arecibo message into a readable math puzzle.
Star Trails moves from a local club night under haze and high clouds to the Arecibo message, the radio signal humanity sent toward the stars more than 50 years ago. Drew opens with a fall cookout at a dark sky site, then settles into the message itself and the way it works.
Why you'd press play
You can decode humanity's postcard to the stars after a calm night-sky warm-up and a local observing report.
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