Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Calling occupants of interplanetary craft.

Currently in Joe's talk. Some of this conversation reminded me of this image I was on apod (Astronomy Picture of the Day) a while back.


This is just page 1.
See if you can figure it out. I got too impatient when i first saw it and looked up the answer (linked from this apod archive). Check it out. I think you'll like it.

"Calling occupants of interplanetary craft" is the title for this post. It comes from a cheesy but cute Carpenters song.

3 comments:

Joe Pasquale said...

Molto interessante!

Anonymous said...

what is that!!! hahaha

can you tell me the answer...

so long and i bet it may be self explanatory!

Kris said...

A hint is that those are numbers. The dots are pretty straight forward. Then there's a binary representation followed by a decimal representation. Then it gets into primes. The full document goes on to topics outside of math, but who cares about that?