The message consisted of 13 drawings depicting the progression of life on Earth, a human family, and the word 'toast.'
Astronomers in Japan are eagerly awaiting an alien reply, 40 years after drunken drawings were beamed into space.
The initial message was shot out into space in August 1983 by Masaki Morimoto and Hisashi Hirabayashi. It consisted of a series of 13 drawings, depicting the progression of life on Earth, from single-celled organisms to fish to lizards to apes and finally humans. Perhaps this is not so curious as, in 2008, it emerged that the pair had been drunk at the time, according to a report by design and science website Gizmodo. This might explain why the pixelated images included the molecular formula for ethanol, the kanji characters for"kanpai" and the word"toast" written in English.in the form of radio signals headed towards the star Altair.
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