{"id":25394,"date":"2016-05-05T16:32:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T23:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/this-astrophysicist-posed-an-alien-challenge-and-the-internet-is-racing-to-solve-it"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:28:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:28:32","slug":"this-astrophysicist-posed-an-alien-challenge-and-the-internet-is-racing-to-solve-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/this-astrophysicist-posed-an-alien-challenge-and-the-internet-is-racing-to-solve-it","title":{"rendered":"This Astrophysicist Posed an Alien Challenge and the Internet Is Racing to Solve It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-astrophysicist-posed-an-alien-challenge-and-the-internet-is-racing-to-solve-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If aliens sent you an encrypted binary message, could you answer? <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.mps.mpg.de\/homes\/heller\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Ren\u00e9 Heller<\/a>, an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, wants to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Heller <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.mps.mpg.de\/homes\/heller\/downloads\/files\/SETI_rules.txt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">posed a hypothetical question<\/a> as part of the #SETIDecryptChallenge: \u201cSuppose a telescope on Earth receives a series of pulses from a fixed, unresolved source beyond the solar system,\u201d he <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.mps.mpg.de\/homes\/heller\/downloads\/files\/SETI_rules.txt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt turns out the pulses carry a message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The encrypted message is a vast sea of 0\u2019s and 1\u2019s. <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.mps.mpg.de\/homes\/heller\/downloads\/files\/SETI_message.txt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">You can see it here<\/a>, but here\u2019s a GIF for your convenience.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/astrophysicist-posed-alien-challenge-internet-153200596.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/astrophysicist-posed-alien-challe...00596.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If aliens sent you an encrypted binary message, could you answer? Ren\u00e9 Heller, an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, wants to hear from you. Last month, Heller posed a hypothetical question as part of the #SETIDecryptChallenge: \u201cSuppose a telescope on Earth receives a series of pulses from a fixed, unresolved [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1625,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-encryption","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25394","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56731,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25394\/revisions\/56731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}