Thursday, December 02, 2004

Messages to ET

What kind of message should we send to ET? Here's a though – send the Internet.

We have the capability of sending information at the rate of a gigabit per second, and a hundred times that rate for nearby objects. At that rate, the contents of the Google server could be transferred in a couple of days. Forget about trying to make the message easy to understand – the sheer quantity and redundancy will allow alien mathematicians and code breakers to translate it.

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