Drunk astronomers sent a letter into space from Earth, but sobered up and did not wait for a response from Altair

   In the early 1980s, two drunk astronomers from Japan sent a message to the star Altair. Now other scientists from Japan have decided to monitor signals from space in the hope of getting an answer to it.

This is reported by The Asahi Shimbun.

On August 15, 1983, two Japanese astronomers from the University of Tokyo, Masaki Morimoto and Hisashi Hirabayashi drank whiskey, made their way to the Stanford University Telescope and sent a message in the form of 13 drawings to Altair, which is in the constellation of the Eagle about 16.8 light years from Earth.

The message, translated into binary code, contained the coordinates of our planet and extensive information about life on Earth, including a graphically executed history of its origin.

Having sobered up, astronomers began to wait for an answer, hoping to receive it in 2015. However, Masaki Morimoto died in 2010, and his colleagues’ hopes were not fulfilled.

And recently, a team of astronomers led by Shinya Narusava from Hego University aimed a 64-meter radio telescope antenna at the Usuda Center for Deep Space (located in Saku, Nagano Prefecture) to get an answer.

They reasoned that planets inhabited by intelligent beings could revolve around Altair, so after 40 years we can expect that the radio signal has reached such a planet and has already been answered, which is about to reach Earth.

Scientists waited for a signal from aliens for one hour starting at 22:00 local time on August 22. However, no signals were received from space.

A year ago, a private research institute for the study of unidentified flying objects in Japan stated that it has about 450 evidence proving the existence of UFOs.

PS: This news is translated from strana.news