The Avalanches have teased new music converted from the 1974 Arecibo message broadcast into space in the hopes of contacting intelligent life.On Instagram today (June 18), the Australian plunderphonics group detailed how they were contacted by Frank Drake, the 90-year old astronomer and astrophysicist responsible for the creation of the Arecibo message in 1974.According to the SETI Institute, the Arecibo message carried information about humanity to the distant galaxy M13, and was broadcast using two different radio frequencies from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico on November 16, 1974.
It remains the most powerful broadcast ever deliberately beamed into space.“Frank found [the message] in his archives and was kind enough to share.
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