What if there were another way? Would if it had already previously been done? Back in 1979 a journal under Carl Sagan published an article about the possibility that intelligent life had left its signature in the DNA strand of a virus found in intestinal bacteria. The Search for Extraterrestrial intelligent life turned its focus to biology at that time. In the journal the article was titled “Is bacteriophage X174 DNA a message from an extraterrestrial intelligence?” and was written by Japanese biochemists Hiromitsu Yokoo and Tairo Oshima. The article was very revolutionary for its time so Carl Sagan had scientist and now Astrobiologist David Grinspoon double check the work in the article to make sure it made scientific sense. Grinspoon said in his book Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life; “A little background will help here… Prime numbers are those that cannot be made by multiplying together any other whole numbers: 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13 and on up, as high as you want to go. No known formula on natural process generates them. If you see primes, you know that mind is not far behind. A widely accepted idea for interstellar message construction is to send digital pulses that repeat with a number that is the product of two primesmultiplied together. This would suggest that a two-dimensional picture is being sent. For example, if you received a message that was repeating a sequence of 143 pulses, you, or your machine, would say, “Oh, 143 is 11 times 13, and these are both prime numbers. Let’s make an 11-by-13 array and see if there’s a picture encoded here.” This technique – using primes to create easily decoded 2-D images – is a pillar of SETI theory. thespiritscience.net/2014/08/12/secret-messages-sent-over-time-and-space/
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