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Arecibo Telescope 1974 Transmitted SETI Message

A sequence intended for communication with extraterrestrial intelligence, transmitted in 1974 from the Arecibo radio telescope

The sequence can be assembled as a low-resolution bitmap image. The image includes at the end a distorted version of the binary sequences for successive integers. It also has atomic numbers of various elements, and bitvectors for components of DNA, as well as idealized pictures of a DNA molecule, a human, and the radio telescope that sent the message.

(1679 elements)

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the message:

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ResourceData["Arecibo Telescope 1974 Transmitted SETI Message"]
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Find the factors of the length of sequence:

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FactorInteger[ Length[ResourceData[ "Arecibo Telescope 1974 Transmitted SETI Message"]]]
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Create a bitmap image:

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ArrayPlot[ Partition[ ResourceData["Arecibo Telescope 1974 Transmitted SETI Message"], 23]]
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Wolfram Research, "Arecibo Telescope 1974 Transmitted SETI Message" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2017)   https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.73460.data

Data Resource History

  • Date Created:

Source Metadata

  • Source: https://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-1190
  • Citation: Cited in: Stephen Wolfram, “A New Kind of Science” (2002)

Publisher Information

  • Prepared for the Wolfram Data Repository By: Stephen Wolfram
  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research