Stephanie Pappas is a contributing writer for Live Science, covering topics ranging from geoscience to archaeology to the human brain and behavior.
A father-daughter team has decoded a mock"alien" message after a year of trying. Now, citizen scientists are trying to figure out what the decoded missive truly means for Earth.
The message is part of"A Sign in Space," a science/art project that explores how humanity might react after receiving a real alien message. It took only 10 days for an online community to extract the message from the raw data, but decoding it was more difficult: That wasn't achieved until June 7, 2024, when the Chaffins messaged Daniela de Paulis, the founder and artistic director of the project, with the solution. ESA publicly announced their success on Oct. 22.
Related: Infamous 'Wow! signal' that hinted at aliens may actually be an exceptionally rare cosmic event—Repeated signals from the center of the Milky Way could be aliens saying hello, new study claimsThe project had additional support from the SETI Institute — a nonprofit dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life — and the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia. Decoding the message required many hours of computer simulations.
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