Can you figure out how to decipher the information in this image?
It means: "Take me to your leader, you puny human!!!"
How easy is it actually to reverse engineer a UFO?
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It means: "Take me to your leader, you puny human!!!"
Can you figure out how to decipher the information in this image?
Dinner is served M'Lord and look convenient directions to their homeworld
You are correct!
But, given that you recognized the image as being from the Voyager probes, you probably remembered that the bottom left indicated Earth's position relative to pulsars.
The upper half are vague instructions for constructing a "record" player and how to reconstruct the video data on the disc.
Actually, when I first saw the Voyager image many years ago, I guessed it must be a location map based on pulsar frequencies as pulsars can serve as handy reference beacons for establishing coordinates in the Galaxy. I was trained as an astrophysicist so it didn't tax my feeble imagination too hard. This concept was also used in the Next Generation video game A Final Unity. However, pulsar spin rates do vary over thousands of years so that would need to be factored into any navigation system.
How pulsars slow down with age -- ScienceDaily
Rotational evolution of young pulsars due to superfluid decoupling | Nature Physics
How pulsars slow down with age -- ScienceDaily
Rotational evolution of young pulsars due to superfluid decoupling | Nature Physics
Didn't the plaque on the side of Pioneer 10 and 11 also have similar things as well as a drawing of naked man and woman? That should have been enough to scare aliens away
^ Yep - but don't worry, the Klingons will blow one away in a few hundred years...
So.. Colassus and guardian? Hmm.
The Pioneer probes just had the plaque with more limited information:
The Voyager record contained 116 images. They were going to include a photograph of a naked man and pregnant woman, but ended up just using a silhouette. It also included greetings from the Secretary General of the UN, greetings in 55 languages, 56 if you include the whale greetings (did Carl Sagan know the plot to Star Trek IV- The Voyage Home?). There are also the sounds of Earth and a number of musical selections.
I have the book, Murmurs of Earth by Carl Sagan which discusses the creation of the record. It also included a CD-ROM which included all the photos and audio content, which cannot be played by a contemporary computer.
(I'd like to state that Jeff Goldblum creating a computer virus for an alien computer system in Independence Day is utter bullshit!)
The Pioneer probes just had the plaque with more limited information:
The Voyager record contained 116 images. They were going to include a photograph of a naked man and pregnant woman, but ended up just using a silhouette. It also included greetings from the Secretary General of the UN, greetings in 55 languages, 56 if you include the whale greetings (did Carl Sagan know the plot to Star Trek IV- The Voyage Home?). There are also the sounds of Earth and a number of musical selections.
I have the book, Murmurs of Earth by Carl Sagan which discusses the creation of the record. It also included a CD-ROM which included all the photos and audio content, which cannot be played by a contemporary computer.
(I'd like to state that Jeff Goldblum creating a computer virus for an alien computer system in Independence Day is utter bullshit!)
Yes but it made for a fun movie.
Gosh I love that movie.
Didn't that experiment done a few years ago come close to emulating that in real life when they hooked up two computers and they made their own language? It wasn't on the same scale as the movie and the computers were air gapped off the net but it felt very much like that scene in the movie from reading about it.
What's funny is that Terminator is based on that as well. A computer that develops its own intelligence and takes over... Come to think of it that's also the central idea of Discovery season 2.
Which is also strangely similar to "ugly bags of mostly water", energy beings that could reprogram the ship's computer.
That was unintentionally a funny line though. Terrible episode but the line was funny.
Heeeeeeeyyy I wonder why no one ever visited the planet where they dumped the nanites? I wonder what it's like now in the 30th Century
freind of mine was at a convention or some other type of thingy, and some trek nerd was being a jackass, and he called him a "ugly bag of mostly Vinegar" ... brought down the house.. 
Unintentionally?
Well I don't think they intended that line to be funny but I found it very funny watching the episode.
I always assumed it was intended. Picards reaction alone...
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