JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 11 months agoIf you were tasked with putting together a message to send to space aliens, with the only restriction that the message had to be under 4GB, what would you send?message-squaremessage-square82fedilinkarrow-up159arrow-down16
arrow-up153arrow-down1message-squareIf you were tasked with putting together a message to send to space aliens, with the only restriction that the message had to be under 4GB, what would you send?JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 11 months agomessage-square82fedilink
minus-squarez00s@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·11 months agoIt’s kinda cool but not sure why they thought creating a new set of pictograms that aren’t used on Earth was the best method https://xkcd.com/927/
minus-squareAVincentInSpace@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoSo that the symbols would be less likely to get corrupted if the aliens received it over a bad radio link
It’s kinda cool but not sure why they thought creating a new set of pictograms that aren’t used on Earth was the best method
https://xkcd.com/927/
So that the symbols would be less likely to get corrupted if the aliens received it over a bad radio link