In an effort to discover intelligent extraterrestrial life, Carl Sagan sent into space a transmission known as the ‘Arecibo’ message via radio waves.
The message addressed to ET
It was the most powerful radio transmission ever transmitted to space by mankind.
In comparison, the signal sent to space was a million times stronger than a typical television broadcast.
A few years after the signal was sent, the people forgot about that. Then, 27 years later, a circle of crops appeared shaking the scientific community.
A pattern appeared in a field, next to the largest telescope and observatory in the United Kingdom, Chilbolton, where the world’s largest fully addressable weather radar was found, which looked like a response to the 1974 broadcast.
The Message of Arecibo
Approximately four years after its transmission: “The decoded message forms a kind of pictogram that says something like this:
‘Here is how we count from one to ten. Here are five atoms that we think are interesting or important: hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and phosphorus.
Here are some ways to join these atoms that we consider interesting or important: the molecules thymine, adenine, guanine and cytosine and a chain composed of alternating sugars and phosphates.
These molecular building blocks come together to form a long DNA molecule that comprises approximately four billion links in the chain.
The molecule is a double helix. Somehow, this molecule is important for the clumsy-looking creature at the center of the message.
That creature has 14 radio wavelengths or 5 feet and 9.5 inches high.
There are about four billion of these creatures on the third floor of our star. There are nine planets in total, four large outwards and one small at the extremity.

This message is brought to you by courtesy of a radio telescope of 2,430 wavelengths or 1,004 feet in diameter. Attentively.'”
Sagan himself described the Arecibo Message, about four years after it was transmitted:
“The decoded message forms a kind of pictogram that says something like this:
‘Here is how we count from one to ten. Here are five atoms that we think are interesting or important: hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and phosphorus. Here are some ways to put these atoms together that we think interesting or important – the molecules thymine, adenine, guanine and cytosine and a chain composed of alternating sugars and phosphates.
These molecular building blocks are put together to form a long molecule of DNA comprising about four billion links in the chain. The molecule is a double helix. In some way, this molecule is important for the clumsy looking creature at the center of the message. That creature is 14 radio wavelengths or 5 feet 9.5 inches tall.
There are about four billion of these creatures on the third plant from our star. There are nine planets altogether, four big ones toward the outside and one little one at the extremity. This message is brought to you courtesy of a radio telescope 2,430 wavelengths or 1,004 feet in diameter.
Yours truly.’”
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