Many years ago, in a galaxy right around the corner – “A Sign in Space”
“kicking off a global effort to decipher the cryptic signal”
Many years ago, in a galaxy right around the corner there was SETI. SETI was set-up to go through enormous amounts of data with the help of many volunteers who freed up memory and processor time. The data was noise received from out of space. The hope was that in that noise there was a message, some sort of life.
Just when everyone thought SETI was over and one they are back again – there is a signal!
This signal doesn’t have a very alien nature. It was man-made and beamed from the Trace Gas Orbitter Mars to earth and received by three telescopes. It is a cryptic message and the SETI project is more art than scientific, but it is close to what they ever hoped to achieve.
From Space.com
That effort is A Sign in Space, a multiweek project led by Daniela de Paulis, the current artist in residence at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California and the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia. “Throughout history, humanity has searched for meaning in powerful and transformative phenomena,” de Paulis said in a statement.
“Receiving a message from an extraterrestrial civilization would be a profoundly transformational experience for all humankind,” she added. “A Sign in Space offers the unprecedented opportunity to tangibly rehearse and prepare for this scenario through global collaboration, fostering an open-ended search for meaning across all cultures and disciplines.”
The Green Bank Observatory is one of the three scopes that listened for the Trace Gas Orbiter’s signal today, along with the SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array in northern California and the Medicina Radio Astronomical Station in northern Italy, which is managed by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics. Researchers at each of those facilities will now process the signal and make it available to their colleagues around the world and to the public at large. The project team wants folks from a range of backgrounds to study the signal and try their hand at deciphering it.
Make space again on your computer, visit https://asignin.space/the-message/ and help to decrypt the message!
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