प्राकृतिक चन्द्र ग्रहण र पुर्णिमा कार्तिक १२ गते, कार्तिक ११ गते होइन है ...
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 fr...
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