...in designing outer solar system time capsules to communicate with hypothetical extraterrestrial life.
My father, Jules, disappeared shortly after meeting my mother, Cassarina, in Mexico. The Soul Chamber manuscript I’m posting on the Internet is the only thing I have to remind me of him, as well as a weather worn black and white photograph, which my mother held as her only keepsake. On the back of this photograph was written:
My father, Jules, disappeared shortly after meeting my mother, Cassarina, in Mexico. The Soul Chamber manuscript I’m posting on the Internet is the only thing I have to remind me of him, as well as a weather worn black and white photograph, which my mother held as her only keepsake. On the back of this photograph was written:
“Pioneer 10 launched toward the Oort Cloud. 1974 Arecibo Radio telescope transmission to M13.”
In 1972 and 1973, when my father was in the Mayab Forest looking for the Soul Chamber, NASA sent two probes into the outer solar system; Pioneer 10 and 11. Pioneer 10 was directed toward the star, Aldebaran[1], located in the constellation Taurus which its appearance on the horizon during the vernal equinox signified at the Julian calendar New Year – April 1st until it was changed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, ordering a new Gregorian calendar starting on January 1st. Such as it is, the “fool’s errand” date – looking for things that don’t exist has become an observed custom in Western culture.
In 1972 and 1973, when my father was in the Mayab Forest looking for the Soul Chamber, NASA sent two probes into the outer solar system; Pioneer 10 and 11. Pioneer 10 was directed toward the star, Aldebaran[1], located in the constellation Taurus which its appearance on the horizon during the vernal equinox signified at the Julian calendar New Year – April 1st until it was changed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, ordering a new Gregorian calendar starting on January 1st. Such as it is, the “fool’s errand” date – looking for things that don’t exist has become an observed custom in Western culture.
A message, designed by Dr. Carl Sagan and his wife, Linda Salzman, did the art work, was attached to the satellites support struts, and engraved as a pictograph on gold-anodized aluminum. Most prominent is the naked figures of a man and woman, in binary representation of height, showing the opposable thumb and how our limbs move. There is more, the position of the earth’s Sun and 14 pulsars, the transition of neutral hydrogen, and the silhouette of Pioneer in direct proportion to the homo sapiens for calculated reference, but its so anthropocentric that one wonders if anyone other than a human could decode it and even top astro-scientists had difficulty. We may certainly have sent the wrong message to any other life forms, intelligent enough to understand the plaque.
In 1977, Voyager I was launched directed to Jupiter. Again, another attempt to find intelligent life, this time making a more complex detailed “state-of-the-art” eclectic Golden Record media communication plaque attached to the satellite that announced: “Greetings from Earth.”“This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We cast this message into the cosmos… Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some — perhaps many — may have inhabited planets and space faring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message: We are trying to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope some day; having solved the problems we face, to join a community of Galactic Civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination and our goodwill in a vast and awesome universe.” U.S. President Jimmy Carter
Greetings was translated into 55 languages; sounds of Earth included audio recordings of volcanoes, thunder, an F-111 fighter jet, autos, mother and child kissing, heartbeat, laughter; and there was music from Germany, Mexico, Japan, Peru, Zaire, China to name a few; and brain waves of Ann Druyan thinking of what it’s like to fall in love, recorded by Dr. Carl Sagan at the Bellevue Hospital in New York City.
All of this was put on an ultra-pure isotope uranium-238 electroplated gold-plated copper disc. Uranium -238 has a half life of 4.51 billions years. Good thing, for Voyage I has entered the “heliosheath” breaking through the termination shock by leaving our solar system in November 2004.
Moreover, the SETI@home program[2] – after four years of vigorous monitoring of specific regional grid monitoring through Internet-connected computers turned up nothing, something did happen in 2001 that may have been in reply to the Arecibo Observatory (Arecibo, Puerto Rico) radio telescope message sent on November 16, 1974 to the Messier 13 galaxy cluster located in the constellation Hercules; some 25,000 light years[3] from earth and 145 light years across, containing over 300000 stars.[4] The message was created by Dr. Frank Drake with assistance by veteran space time capsule engineer Dr. Carl Sagan and astronomy graduate students.
Supposively, the intent of this beamed transmission (left) was a ceremonial demonstration of an upgrade to the radio telescope; however, just to be safe it was mathematically calculated in binary code, of 1,679 binary digits using semiprime (two prime numbers - 23 & 73) arranged rectangularly (Raster scan matrix grid) and including seven parts of encoded information:
The numbers one through 10; the atomic numbers of the elements that make up deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus; the formulas for the sugars and bases in the nucleotides of DNA; the number of nucleotides in DNA, and the graphic of the double helix structure of DNA; the graphic figure of a human (average height at 5 feet 9.5 inches); the graphic of Earth’s solar system; and a graphic of the Arecibo radio telescope and transmitting antenna dish.[5]
The transmission was sent at a frequency of 2380 MHz and modulated by shifting the frequency every 10MHz with a broadcast power of 1000kW. The transmission rate was one bit per second lasting 1,679 seconds.
Some claim a reply message has come back – 37 years later, in the form of a crop circle next to the Chilbolton Radio Telescope Space Observatory on August 21, 2001.
The reply.
Alien Face Crop Circle outside Crabwood Farm, Hampshire, UK deciphered binary code from the adjacent circle:
"Beware of false presence of broken promises; much pain but there is still time; believe that there is still good out there; we oppose deception, the conduit is closing."
Written in my mother, Cassarina, journals, I found the following notations..
The Mayan galactic message: Gregorian Date: August 21, 2001 - 13-Moon Date: Moon 1 day 27 (Oc);
- "Pulse in order to love, performing loyalty, seal the heart, with the solar tone of impecable intention, he leads me - the power of death.
The Mayan galactic message: Gregorian Date: 11/16/1974 - 13-Moon Date: Moon 5 day 2 (Ilk);
- "Defined in order to communicate, measuring the breath, seal the entrance to the spirit, with the tone of how to auto exist, he leads me [to] the power of wealth."
- Auto exist - to live by harmonic intuitive consciousness.
- This is the message you heard from the beginning; we should love one another. (Biblical New Testament reference to John 3:11)
Footnotes
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldebaran (The Romans divided the month according to the Calends on the first day of each month, the Nones for the ninth day proceeding the Ides, and the Ides. The Nones of March, May, July and October were on the seventh of the month, and on the fifth day during the other months. Months of March, May, July, and October had the Ides on the fifteenth, and the other months held the Ides on the thirteenth. The first day, Calends, of April, is now on March 21 due to leap adjustments via the Gregorian Calendar. The 10-month Roman Calendar began the new year following the end of December on April 1. The expression "April Fool's Day" is a modern remnant of the 2,000-year old calendar.)
[2] Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (Released May 17, 1999)
[3] One light year equals 6 trillion miles; the radio signal travels at the speed of light (186,000 mps)
[4] M13 was discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714, and catalogued by Charles Messier on June 1, 1764.
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldebaran (The Romans divided the month according to the Calends on the first day of each month, the Nones for the ninth day proceeding the Ides, and the Ides. The Nones of March, May, July and October were on the seventh of the month, and on the fifth day during the other months. Months of March, May, July, and October had the Ides on the fifteenth, and the other months held the Ides on the thirteenth. The first day, Calends, of April, is now on March 21 due to leap adjustments via the Gregorian Calendar. The 10-month Roman Calendar began the new year following the end of December on April 1. The expression "April Fool's Day" is a modern remnant of the 2,000-year old calendar.)
[2] Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (Released May 17, 1999)
[3] One light year equals 6 trillion miles; the radio signal travels at the speed of light (186,000 mps)
[4] M13 was discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714, and catalogued by Charles Messier on June 1, 1764.
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message
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