Physicists Call For Alien Messaging Protocol

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 27, 2011 @08:53PM from the don't-they-still-use-macs? dept.

schliz writes "Researchers have called for the development of a messaging framework that could increase the probability that our interplanetary messages are detected and deciphered – assuming Orson Scott Card's vision of telepathic buggers doesn't come true. The trio of postgraduate astrophysicists suggest a Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence protocol (METI — PDF) for signal encoding, message length, information content, transmission method and periodicity. The protocol could be tested via a website that allows users to create, retrieve and decrypt sample messages that conform to the protocol — which also demonstrates communication across human cultural boundaries, they say."

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Orson Scott Card? Give me a break. by Frosty+Piss · 2011-01-27 20:56 · Score: -1, Troll

Orson Scott Card is a homophobic White Supremacist. Does anyone besides Timothy take this asshat seriously?

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