Interpreting a Message from ET
If you like puzzles you may like to try your hand at interpreting a message that was designed to be sent to an extraterrestrial intelligence. In an attempt to simulate an exchange of information via intelligent civilizations, scientists from Cal Tech (Busch) and Stanford (Reddick) developed a method for coding a message and tried to see if it could properly be decoded. The paper and code are available online here. If you are up for it, you too can see if you could have interpreted this message. Such message exchanges require much intelligence on both sides of the message, the sender and receiver.