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

Tristan McLeay wrote:
> Only if we somehow predifined them. Which was the point of the numbers
> on the top of the Arecibo thing, but I don't think the predefinition is
> useful: which way is up? is 0 in there somewhere? It's only a piece of a
> complicated and possibly meaningless puzzle, not in any way a key.
I'm not sure that the message itself is even important, is it?  I'm
under the impression that the point was merely to say to any listening
aliens "Hey, there's intelligent life here", thus any message that's
obviously artificial would work, regardless of whether or not the aliens
figure out the meaning of said message.

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