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The Paradox of the Great Silence
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Transcript of The Paradox of the Great Silence
The
Paradox of
the Great
Silence
By Ernesto Pérez
In 2006, the
astrophysicist
Alexander Zaitsev,
stated what is known
as the SETI paradox.
The SETI paradox is
about ...
quest for intelligent
signals from other
civilizations
and the persistent
aversion to any
attempts to transmit
such signals from
Earth.
… the insistent
To Zaitsev, we are living
an "incomprehensible
while keeping almost
absolutely silent."
hope of finding
extraterrestrial
intelligence
From our side we have
made some sparse
attempts to contact
alien civilizations.
The best-known of all
them is probably the
Arecibo message,
although the observatory was not
constructed for this objective.
and professor Carl Sagan, devised a
message that would be broadcasted to
a selected constellation in our
Milky Way Galaxy
While celebrating a major upgrade to
the radio telescope in 1974, Frank
Drake, with several graduate students
during the upgrade dedication
ceremony on November 16, 1974.
The next message to the
“outer space” was sent
from the Evpatoria
(Eupatoria) city in
Ukraine on May 24,
1999.
began in 1962, when on
November 12 and 24,
short signals with the
words "Mir", "USSR" and
"Lenin" were sent to
the planet Venus to
receive its echo.
However, initial attempts of
radio telescope transmissions
The Red Star newspaper
informed about the
Evpatoria transmission
in 1962. In the signals
can be seen the Morse Code
equivalent of each word.
Photo credit: Russian Academy of Sciences.
This three-word
radio transmission
experiment cannot be
considered a
"message" as such,
but it opened the
road for the future
and the more
complicated message
of May 24, 1999.
The 1999 message
─Encounter 2001 "Cosmic
Call"─ is also known as
the Evpatoria Message,
following ─as Arecibo─
the city from which it
was sent to the space on
November 16, 1974.
Shown at right is the “first page” of the
Evpatoria Message.
Contrary to the
Arecibo message that
looks like a scroll,
or like an ancient
codex, the message of
the year 1999 is a 23
page "book" of square
pages each 129 bits
by 129 bits.
The numbers from 0 to 9 in
the Encounter 2001 radio
message.
The first symbol that
captures our attention
is this:
This pictogram stands for the mathematical
symbol of equality ( = ); why?
Using a
pictogram twice
for the equality
idea reinforces
the idea of this
concept.
The first 24 prime
numbers are visible in
another “page” of this
radio-message “book”.
The numeration above
them are for easy
identification of the
primes to our
readers. Is this the first “EBook” ever
sent to another galaxy?
The unbelievable last page 23.
The message simply ask the
receivers of the message to
answer back some
questions. Basically, it is
about the same concepts
already introduced in the
message.
Page 23 is a “test”. It is a simple
questionnaire.
The page is asking
about their world and
about themselves.
The huge symbol at
the center of the
pictogram is the same
used to introduce
variables.
It is the equivalent of
our question mark.
But, will we ever receive
back some answer?
Have some civilizations
ever sent to our region a
message similar to this one?
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