If 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?
<span style="color:#323232;">This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Sending this message was important to us. We considered (emphasis on 'considered') ourselves to be a powerful culture.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The danger is to the body, and it can kill.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The form of the danger is an species of great apes.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
</span>
It’s explained in the PDF. If they used normal numbers and letters, the chance of corruption would be high. So they had to reform into the symbols you see.
I still don’t get why we use Pi instead of Tau though, when most equations double it up into Tau anyway.
The warning “This species destroys anything it encounters, turn around, save yourselves, warn the universe”. With as many before and after images of destroyed habitats and extinct creatures that would fit in the rest of the 4GB space.
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