Arecibo Message T-Shirt
Arecibo Message T-Shirt
The 1974 interstellar radio message broadcast towards the Hercules Globular Cluster (M13). The signal includes basic information about the earth and humanity and consists of 1,679 binary digits (which, as a semiprime, can be arranged into a 73 row x 23 column which is how we have depicted it here). The message briefly comprises (top to bottom): numbers one to ten; the atomic numbers of the elements hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus, which make up deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA); the formulas for the sugars and bases in the nucleotides of DNA; the number of nucleotides in DNA, and a graphic of the double helix structure of DNA; a graphic figure of a human, the dimension (physical height) of an average man, and the human population of Earth; a graphic of the Solar System indicating which of the planets the message is coming from; and graphic of the Arecibo radio telescope and the dimension (the physical diameter) of the transmitting antenna dish.
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The 1974 interstellar radio message broadcast towards the Hercules Globular Cluster (M13). The signal includes basic information about the earth and humanity and consists of 1,679 binary digits (which, as a semiprime, can be arranged into a 73 row x 23 column which is how we have depicted it here). The message briefly comprises (top to bottom): numbers one to ten; the atomic numbers of the elements hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus, which make up deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA); the formulas for the sugars and bases in the nucleotides of DNA; the number of nucleotides in DNA, and a graphic of the double helix structure of DNA; a graphic figure of a human, the dimension (physical height) of an average man, and the human population of Earth; a graphic of the Solar System indicating which of the planets the message is coming from; and graphic of the Arecibo radio telescope and the dimension (the physical diameter) of the transmitting antenna dish.
SKU: rm002621