Re: How do you say 'Hello' to an alien?
| From: | michael poxon <m.poxon@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 2, 2003, 14:32 |
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The daftest thing about the Arecibo message is that it was aimed at the
Hercules globular cluster (Messier 13) a mere 30,000 light-years away.
That's 30,000 years for the message to get there plus another 30,000 years
to wait for the reply!
Mike
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