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Was sending the Arecibo message a good idea or a bad one?
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November 13th, 2013
The Arecibo message was sent November 16, 1974. It was in binary, and it will take 25,000 years to reach the star cluster it was aimed at.
The chances life may exist in that star cluster at that time and have the necessary means to receive and decode the message are remote.
The Wikipedia article says the message was sent basically because we could. It was not sent from any necessity.
It may be viewed as an interesting experiment in the notion that we might be able to communicate with extraterrestrial life, and therefore, it’s a good idea.
It may also be viewed as a bad idea by alerting hostile extraterrestrials to our whereabouts.
What do you think?
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