Re: How do you say 'Hello' to an alien?

>I wouldn't be sure of that, and there's no guarantee that an alien who
>receives the message has computer technology.
And there are non-binary analog computers, though I've not worked with any
since college.

> > But, why does it matter if they know what the message means?  Isn't it
> > enough that it's artificial?
>
>Had those who composed the thing thought like that, I expect they'd not
>crammed that many more or less interesting factoids into it.
Well, were I designing it, I, too, would have crammed it with factoids, in
the off chance that, along with being a general sign of alien intelligent
life, any who received might also decode it.

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