{"id":137735,"date":"2022-04-05T11:25:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T16:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/galactic-beacon-scientists-propose-sending-revealing-message-to-alien-civilizations"},"modified":"2022-04-05T11:25:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T16:25:03","slug":"galactic-beacon-scientists-propose-sending-revealing-message-to-alien-civilizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/galactic-beacon-scientists-propose-sending-revealing-message-to-alien-civilizations","title":{"rendered":"Galactic Beacon\u2014Scientists Propose Sending Revealing Message To Alien Civilizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/galactic-beacon-scientists-propose-sending-revealing-message-to-alien-civilizations2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The brand new \u201cBeacon in the Galaxy\u201d is a binary message created by scientists as an update to the old Arecibo message.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>The newly proposed \u201cA Beacon in the Galaxy\u201d, a binary message created by scientists as an update to the old Arecibo message, might actually be more dangerous for us than beneficial. It includes key information about us \u2013 our location, our DNA structure, and even an image of the naked human body.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Should we give aliens such vital details about Earth and humanity? This question has been around for ages and countless renowned scientists have expressed their concerns in the past. Even Stephen Hawking explained that a hypothetical alien civilization could be hostile.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Is the <strong>Beacon in the Galaxy<\/strong> better than the Arecibo message?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>While the <a href=\"https:\/\/curiosmos.com\/whats-in-the-cosmio-message-that-astronomer-carl-sagan-sent-to-aliens\/\">old radio signal<\/a> included important information about Earth and humanity, it was more like a postcard with difficult-to-understand images. The new \u201cBeacon in the Galaxy\u201d message was created like a presentation with complex illustrations and explanations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brand new \u201cBeacon in the Galaxy\u201d is a binary message created by scientists as an update to the old Arecibo message. The newly proposed \u201cA Beacon in the Galaxy\u201d, a binary message created by scientists as an update to the old Arecibo message, might actually be more dangerous for us than beneficial. It includes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}