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Testing SETI Message Designs

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2011-01-20 v3 Popular Physics

Abstract

Much work in SETI has focused on detecting radio broadcasts due to extraterrestrial intelligence, but there have been limited efforts to transmit messages over interstellar distances. As a check if such messages can be interpreted once received, we conducted a blind test. One of us coded a 75-kilobit message, which the other then attempted to decipher. The decryption was accurate, supporting the message design as a general structure for communicating with aliens capable of detecting narrow-band radio transmissions.

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@article{arxiv.0911.3976,
  title  = {Testing SETI Message Designs},
  author = {Michael W. Busch and Rachel M. Reddick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.3976},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

The first 8 pages of the document contain the abstract, paper, and references. The remainder is supplementary material. This paper has been submitted to Acta Astronautica

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