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I mean when a digit is rounded up, the sequence doesn't look right. If you round down, you just omit one and the pattern is still there.e2iPi said:You do realize that Pi is rounded regardless of how it's written, right?MRaverz said:I've become such a nerd I get annoyed when people round Pi.
3.1415926 or 3.14159, don't spoil Pi.
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Some people have normal OCDs... :lol:
To any Aliens out there I would say the same thing as I would say to religionists who try to say their holy book made predictions:
"TELL US SOMETHING WE DONT KNOW, THEN WE MIGHT BELIEVE YOU!"
Or how about just send a string of prime numbers? you know, the simplest way of saying 'hey this isnt a random stream of shit!'.
"TELL US SOMETHING WE DONT KNOW, THEN WE MIGHT BELIEVE YOU!"
Or how about just send a string of prime numbers? you know, the simplest way of saying 'hey this isnt a random stream of shit!'.
DerGegner said:
I hope they program in C as well!
As a self-certified xenocopulationologist, I can say that if aliens were in contact with us, I'd be having some "close contact" with the aliens.
Besides, the Arecibo message was not intended to make contact, but simply to demonstrate the abilities of the telescope's equipment. I would find it MUCH more likely that they would have detected the decades and decades of radio waves from our communications systems propagating into space in all directions, than a single broadcast lasting less than 3 minutes and sent to a single spot in the sky.
Also, M13, the target destination, is 25,000 light years away, so the soonest response would be 50000 years after transmission, IF we had taken into account that M13 is not going to be in the same position, which it isn't.