{"id":13285,"date":"2016-10-03T02:11:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T06:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13285"},"modified":"2016-10-03T02:11:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T06:11:40","slug":"the-history-of-the-cosmic-call-a-seti-outreach-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13285","title":{"rendered":"The history of the &#8220;Cosmic Call&#8221; &#8211; a SETI outreach project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting article\u00a0about the transmission in 1999 of a carefully assembled message to whomever might reside at nine sun-like\u00a0stars 50-70 light years from the solar system:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/how-couple-guys-built-most-ambitious-alien-outreach-project-ever-180960473\/?no-ist\">How a Couple of Guys Built the Most Ambitious Alien Outreach Project Ever: <em>You might think it takes vast governmental resources to launch an extraterrestrial communication effort. Nope<\/em> &#8211; Smithsonian Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some technical details about the project and the construction of the message:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cplire.ru\/html\/ra&amp;sr\/irm\/report-1999.html\" target=\"_d\">Report on Cosmic Call 1999<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/annotated-cosmic-call-primer-180960566\/?no-ist\" target=\"_d\">Annotated Cosmic Call Primer &#8211; Smithsonian<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/cosmic-call-primer-180960567\/\" target=\"_d\">Cosmic Call Primer &#8211; Smithsonian<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.plover.com\/aliens\/dd\/intro.html\" target=\"_d\">The Universe of Discourse : A message to the aliens (introduction)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting article\u00a0about the transmission in 1999 of a carefully assembled message to whomever might reside at nine sun-like\u00a0stars 50-70 light years from the solar system:\u00a0How a Couple of Guys Built the Most Ambitious Alien Outreach Project Ever: You might think it takes vast governmental resources to launch an extraterrestrial communication effort. Nope &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13285\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The history of the &#8220;Cosmic Call&#8221; &#8211; a SETI outreach project<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seti"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3sh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8891,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8891","url_meta":{"origin":13285,"position":0},"title":"Video: &#8216;Are you living in a simulation&#8217; &#8211; SETI Institute seminar","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Prof. Silas Beane (Univ. of Washington) gives a SETI Institute seminar on the question,\u00a0Are you living in a simulation? http:\/\/youtu.be\/jtPX1XPmIsg \u00a0 From the caption: Philosophers have long considered the possibility that we live in an artificial or simulated reality. 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