The Last Arecibo Message

The Arecibo Message was a brief binary-encoded communication transmitted into space from the Arecibo Observatory on November 16, 1974, intended to demonstrate human technological prowess.

In late 2018, to commemorate the 45th anniversary of this message, the Arecibo Observatory initiated the New Arecibo Message competition. Following a series of challenges, our Boriken Voyagers team was recognized as the winner of the competition in August 2020.

Although the primary objective of the competition was to conceptualize rather than transmit a message, the collapse of the Arecibo Telescope in December 2020 precluded any subsequent transmission efforts.

Therefore, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Arecibo Message, this paper presents the Last Arecibo Message, as originally developed for the Arecibo Telescope.

If the original message says “we are a form of life reaching out to connect”, our message says “we are ready to explore the universe together.” The prospect of transmitting this or a similar message remains an open question.

The Last Arecibo Message is divided into seven sections (colored areas) with different components to decode. — astro-ph.IM

Kelby D. Palencia-Torres, César F. Quiñones-Martínez, Javier A. García Sepúlveda, Luis R. Rivera Gabriel, Lizmarie Mateo Roubert, Germán Vázquez Pérez, Abel Méndez

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures. Additional content is available at this https URL
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Cite as: arXiv:2411.09790 [astro-ph.IM] (or arXiv:2411.09790v1 [astro-ph.IM] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.09790
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From: Abel Mendez
[v1] Thu, 14 Nov 2024 20:00:37 UTC (545 KB)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09790
Astrobiology, SETI,