Decoding the Arecibo Message

I Stumbled on a website, sponsored by Universtiy of Utah, explaining the 1974 transmission sent from the Arecibo radio telescope to the M13 galaxy cluster. The transmission was an active attempt at communication with an extra-terrestrial entity, or entities. Similar to the official mission of SETI, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, the Arecibo message is a binary "picture" meant to communicate, in the simplest terms possible, human civilization, our scientific understanding, and our solar system. Obviously, there has been no response, or it should be said, there has been no publicly acknowledged response...

Click here to visit the site:
http://www.physics.utah.edu/~cassiday/p1080/lec06.html

- Jack