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  • File : 1266589750.jpg-(388 KB, 2891x2290, Pioneer10-plaque.jpg)
    388 KB No cheatinging Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:29 No.330262  
    without cheating, let's pretend to be aliens and figure out the meaning of... THE PIONEER PLAQUE!
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:30 No.330264
    the giant box with the crescent pointy thing is the satellite it was attached to.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:31 No.330269
    The row of circles might be a star system.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:31 No.330271
    asdf asdfien adsf sadfieassndf sdfkjoi asdfiweav vnodfv vdskaljfione dfklhnui dfg nuvinreuiavn metet fiosadfb fdsb iosemrb

    (Look at those things on the right, perhaps those are images of the beings that created this probe)
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:32 No.330274
    holy shit dude check this out.. these guys dont wear pants..
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:33 No.330277
    I believe that the lower glyphs are meant to portray motion of some kind.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:33 No.330280
    would you tap that?
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:34 No.330282
    the small parachute with a box on top came from the small pathetic 4th circle. they were stupid enough to think that such deceleration devices work in a vaccuum. they even put the parachute's box on the wrong side of the parachute. fialure
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:34 No.330283
    About one third of the way down their bodies it appears that they may have eyes.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:36 No.330286
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    it means they want to kill us
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:37 No.330288
    >>330283
    And the one on the left has a flap of some sort below them.
    >> Professor Science 02/19/10(Fri)09:37 No.330292
    Look at the bipeds, it's drawn in the same style as our snowdrifts and sandworms game books, maybe they have d16 games there as well.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:37 No.330294
    fapfapfap
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:37 No.330296
    >>330271
    I think the one on the left with limb curved up might be the being's sensory organ. Perhaps it is permanently fixed in that position. The being on the right has some kind of additional brain mass protruding from it's top. Perhaps the being on the right designed the satellite while the being on the left built it, seeing as it seems to be more suited to commit manual labor. Perhaps the creators of the satellite come from a society that controls stupider beings (as seen on the left) to perform the chores and labor of the beings on the right.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:38 No.330298
    The stuff with rays coming from the center looks pretty much random.

    I call star map.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:39 No.330302
    IT'S A CONSPIRACY PERPETUATED BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:40 No.330304
    The two images on the right appear to be lifeforms, though obviously different ones. They do appear quite similar. Perhaps they are separate sub-species, or are meant to show variety in their appearance. Another theory is that these being are sexual, and thus the images represent a "male" and "female" being.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:40 No.330305
    it's just random scratchings on metal, throw this away
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:40 No.330309
    >>330304
    'male'? 'female'? what the fuck are you smoking?
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:43 No.330314
    >>330304
    what are these male and females you speak of? Are you implying an alternate means of reproduction? Our models and calculations explicitly predict asexual reproduction in most of the known universe!
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:43 No.330316
    Hahaha! This puny species believe Pluto to be a planet. We should invade
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:43 No.330317
    This is all an elaborate prank, melt it down. We need it for weaponry. And sexual fetish clothing.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:43 No.330318
    the figure on top left has two identical parts, but two asymmetrical marks on top of each circle.
    It has a small mark in the horizontal bar, which is a symbol repeated everywhere else. It must be a reference.
    There is one very common thing in space that we must all know that resembles that: H2
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:44 No.330320
    Xyxxfgxh, I think you've got it upside down, buddy.
    >> Professor Science 02/19/10(Fri)09:44 No.330322
    do you think that thingy in the top left has anything to do with quantum mechanics? i'm noticing some things pointing down and a fourth one pointing up.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:45 No.330324
    I'm going to add this to my collection of messages received from someone other than mom.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:46 No.330328
    other life in the universe? this contradicts all of our religious dogma! hide it away, never speak of it again!
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:48 No.330334
    >>330328
    WINRAR!!!!
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:48 No.330335
    >>330318
    Furthermore, I say that the distance is the hyperfine transition of hydrogen, an appropriate scale to measure. Just the typical distance between both atoms wouldn't make sense, it's too small to use.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:48 No.330337
    >>330318
    and look, there is a small line that is prevalent around most other pictures. What do you think that small line means? What relates to H2... and a small line?
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:49 No.330338
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    What is that explosion (red circle)? Is that the propulsion of the vessel? And why is one of the particles from the explosion taking a curved path to what presumably is the third planet?

    (wtf, man, why do they use an arrow? that's a symbol, invented by us, not a law of the universe or w/e)
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:49 No.330339
    Fuck I hate spam!
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:50 No.330342
    >>330309
    "male" and "female" as in a bi-genderal race. It's quite common among lower animals on my world. Some creatures reproduce by combining genes from two animals in order to gain a high state of deviation between individuals, as opposed to our kind who simply genetically manufacture our children.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:52 No.330349
    Idiots didn't leave a return address.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:54 No.330353
    >>330338
    look at the curvature of that line, it seems to bend around the largest circle. Note that it did not bend around the smaller circle. Assuming those circles are planets, it must mean that the line is influenced by gravity, a stronger gravity by the large 'planet' is strong enough to change the direction of the line. Look there, that space craft seems to be at the very end of that line, perhaps it means that the spacecraft was influenced by that line, or that line IS the trajectory of the space craft. That must mean the space craft came from that small planet, this would neatly explain the size of the beings depicted near the spacecraft, as their size is probably with the size of the planet that they inhabit!
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:54 No.330354
    >>330322
    Particle spins, surely.
    But oh, wait, hyperfine transition happens in a single hydrogen atom.

    Then, maybe it's the same atom, before and after spin flip.
    The | symbol is then the wavelength of the hyperfine emission of neutral hydrogen.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:55 No.330356
    There appears to be some sort of engraving on this flat metal surface, This surves no pratical purpose that i can think of other than as a message or primitive attempt to communicate.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:56 No.330360
    >>330338
    see >>330298
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:56 No.330361
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    >>330356
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:57 No.330362
    this will make a nice tray
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:59 No.330368
    The one on the left is my new fetish.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:59 No.330370
    The radial pattern on the left of the plaque shows 15 lines emanating from the same origin. Fourteen of the lines have corresponding long binary numbers, which stand for the periods of pulsars, using the hydrogen spin-flip transition frequency as the unit. Since these periods will change over time, the epoch of the launch can be calculated from these values.
    The lengths of the lines show the relative distances of the pulsars to the Sun. A tick mark at the end of each line gives the Z coordinate perpendicular to the galactic plane.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)09:59 No.330371
    >>330354
    by Zenu, you are correct! each tic might represent the spin flip wavelength of hydrogen... 21.1cm!

    or it's frequency of 1420.4mhz
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:01 No.330375
    >>330370
    fucking cheater...
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:01 No.330378
    >>330354
    the hyperfine transition figure goes from right to left, then the symbols must be read from right to left!!!

    (in4 right/left are human concepts)
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:02 No.330379
    >>330370
    cheater, deduction of pulsars is not justified
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:04 No.330381
    these beings are not much smaller than this shit that came with the plaque
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:04 No.330383
    Not that the spacecraft (if that's what the Box+triangle glyph is meant to represent) is reproduced behind the lifeforms. I propose that this is meant to compare their size to the ship's, making them roughly 2-3 meters (5million qreyi) tall.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:04 No.330384
    >>330379

    ye knowledge of universe am small

    http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/download/
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:07 No.330389
    I guess the lines and marks on the lines indicate the distance from some kind of galactic constants, but I've no idea what's going to remain constant over the eons the plate's going to be in space. I also can't work out what the lines are measured in. Is there some kind of very large length you can get from hydrogen?
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:09 No.330393
    I think the being on the left has dominance over the one on the right. The one on the left is obviously the one trying to communicate, while the one on the right is there to be seen and not heard.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:09 No.330394
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    >>330389
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:09 No.330395
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    >>330371
    It is only logical that those same ticks represent a rudimentary counting system.

    In fact, I would be willing to wager that the ticks are binary on and off positions.

    If I may draw your attention to the 15 lines radiating from the central origin, I believe, if we were to express these in counting conditions, that it is meant to serve as a co-ordinate system.
    Oddly enough, there is a line which runs well behind the two Anthromorphic figures. Suggesting a great distance.

    I would be willing to wager all my Marcabian Credits, that this is a reference from the center of the galaxy.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:11 No.330401
    >>330384
    Faggot, I spam this board with that link.
    And I study astronomy, so don't come with that shit.
    You clearly cheated, you didn't give a justification for the objects to be pulsars.
    And you are missing a very important thing about them, btw.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:13 No.330405
    The 4th circle from the right has a line through it. Perhaps this indicates that that place is important, possibly the home world. Also, what do the binary values above the circles indicate? Some kind of identification number for the objects? They seem too small to be a meaningful measurement...
    >> OP 02/19/10(Fri)10:14 No.330408
    i dont get anything but the humans and the 3rd planet from the sun bit
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:14 No.330410
    that race must be fucking retarded, they have ten fingers but count in base 2
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:14 No.330412
    The Irregular collection of lines on the right, are propabley a representation of the creators of this device.
    Some lines areound the outside of these beings could be thier outline, and the internal lines could represent openings, sensory organs or muscule tone.
    If this is so, they obivously are not very intelelgent as I is highly unlikly that a styalised human interpretion of themselves is likely to be able to be understood by an intenegent extraterresrtial who probably dosn't even see in the same light spectrum and probably dosn't understand the concept of 2d respesentations of a 3d object.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:16 No.330415
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    >>330401
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:16 No.330416
    lol, those dumbasses think their "pluto" is a planet, lets go enslave the shit out of them
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:16 No.330417
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    What the fuck does this mean? Let's just blow them up.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:18 No.330421
    >>330370

    The marks are clearly a measurement of length, not rotation period. Notice the two lines to the right of the figures, with a similar set of marks between them. Unless their size is determined by how fast they're spinning, it's a system of measuring length.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:18 No.330422
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    Orientation?
    Hmm, we found this spacejunk floating past our system.
    It has this odd plaque on it.
    We wonder what it means.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:18 No.330425
    >>330412
    Please ignor the dsylexia.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:20 No.330432
    You guys would make some awful alien scientists
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:21 No.330434
    >>330422
    dumb ass that's upside down. What kind of creature looks like that? they obviously stand on the two bottom limbs.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:24 No.330440
    >>330262
    the star thingy might be the location of the solarsystem

    bottom row is the location of Earth in the solarsystem(Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth...)

    people next to probe are average size humans in relation to the probe.

    two circles at the top might be hydrogen or oxygen(it's "1" inside the circles so it must be hydrogen) don't know why they put that on the plaque

    [I didn't cheat or read the thread first and I only knew that there was supposed to be humans and a molecule on the plaque]
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:24 No.330441
    >>330410
    i lol'd
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:27 No.330454
    Since the radial lines must mark distances to some reference objects, these objects cannot be common stars. We can be missing dim stars, despite our bests surveys. There is, however, one kind of star that can be detected at large distance easily, and has very distinctive features: pulsars. We have been measuring their frequencies with several significant digits, so that could constitute a fingerprint. Since the rotation period of a pulsar changes with time, depending on the strength of their magnetic field and initial angular momentum, we have no guarantee on their accuracy as a marker, but given the large number, that could compensate for it.
    Pulsars also tend to have high proper motions (by "pulsar kicks" when they're born in supernova explosions). Again, maybe the number will compensate for that.
    But knowing their frequency only allows for their individual location, so the data strings must be independent of the lines they are attached to. I propose the distance is the length from the center point to the first | mark, and the rest is the frequency. Some data streams are not attached, and that justifies this approach. We must measure this shit.
    Also, there is a very long line towards the right, without any marker. Given the long distances involved, it must represent the distance to the galactic center, again at scale.
    If we pinpoint the pulsars and make the measurements, we could put some useful constraints on their location.
    Also, since we can measure the rate of change of pulsar rotation with time, we can determine the time has passed after the launch.


    >>330370
    this is how you should do it, faggot
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:30 No.330465
    >>330454
    fuck, not all the stop markers of the lines are actually at the end of their lines, any ideas?
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:32 No.330471
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    >>330454
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:34 No.330478
    i never evolved eyes, what is this, what kind of ass-clown communicates through images
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:34 No.330479
    >>330410
    Using base 2 and 10 fingers you can count up to 1023
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:35 No.330483
    >>330471
    Actually, no, I'm happy to have been able to deduce all the steps by myself instead posting a copy pasta, cause it's a literal copy pasta from wikipedia. :P
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:35 No.330484
    FUCK GOLD!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:38 No.330493
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    Now what happens if the probe crashes on some backwater planet without knowledge of chemistry and astronomy? What if they have a completly different concept of chemistry, regarding single molecules and atoms not as a unit but instead some other concept?

    They might end up worshipping it!
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:40 No.330503
    >>330493


    conversely, our shit could be completely elementary

    ...and they might like gold
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:43 No.330523
    Look at this!

    They think they're people. How cute.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:45 No.330533
    ITT: Most interesting, original thread on /sci/ in quite awhile
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:46 No.330538
    This appears to be a lunch order from the alien race.
    2 orders of spaghetti and meatballs.
    They even paid us in gold! Ingenious.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:49 No.330550
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    >single individual

    does not compute

    >picture

    does not compute

    let's plant a grub inside them
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:49 No.330552
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    >>330538
    years later, on Earth...
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:50 No.330554
    >>330493
    it'd burn up in the fucking atmosphere and fall as debris. Also this is very unlikely. There's a higher chance of it just floating around in space for a long, long, long time rather than falling into any planets or moons... or stars
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:50 No.330555
    psychiatrist reporting here.
    why r u think that aliens have the same logic and decision making as we do. better try to see the the plate from a point of a schizophrenic mind. that's different logic. but first to read symptoms of schz.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:54 No.330572
    ITT: people assume aliens have the same kind of abstraction mental mechanisms that we do
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:54 No.330573
    >>330555
    >why r u think
    What the fuck is this bul-
    >psychiatrist
    Get the fuck out.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:57 No.330582
    >>330572
    only reasonable assumption we can make, considering we haven't studied any life intelligent as us before. it was either make an assumption like that or just send the probe out without a plaque, which one would you have chosen?
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:58 No.330589
    Or they could find this after Pioneer re-enters an atmosphere, in which case the gold will have melted off from the heat.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:59 No.330594
    Or an advanced mechanical race could find this probe, and in the next couple hundred years, our planet could be visited by P-NER

    dun dun dunnnnnnnn
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)10:59 No.330598
    >>330454

    Why do people seem to think pulsars are suitable universal constants? They move around over millions of years just like other stars, they can change spin speed due to accretion or collision, and besides, we only know of pulsars where the magnetic pole flashes past our planet. I think any alien race would have better luck finding out where the plaque came from by just looking at the direction it's moving in.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:00 No.330602
    >>330572

    Given only a single data point, the best you can do is assume that data point is close to average.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:03 No.330619
    >>330582
    send nothing, spend money on a better mission
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:05 No.330631
    Another interesting thing is to discuss how we would go about catching such a probe. I mean, given the unlikely event of an alien probe traveling our solar system, would we even realize it? Would we be able to catch it in time, or catch it at all? It's probably going to be fucking fast in relation to earth.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:06 No.330635
    >>330598
    Yeah, I know that. I addressed some of those points, but if not that, what else? Giving the complete spectrum of a star?
    Any other better reference is fucking far away and uncertainties would be even bigger. At least you can model a few things with pulsars.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:07 No.330640
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    The depiction of this probe in relative size to the obvious planet order at the bottom suggest that this machine is many times the size of their planets, and the people are about the same size.

    I think we are dealing with a race of planet crushing giants.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:07 No.330641
    The voyager records actually made alot more sense, had better data, offered what would hopefullly be simple instructions on how to hear the audio and show the pictures...

    but it is fuck all complicated unless the civilization has relevant tech in their own history
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:11 No.330662
    >>330598
    I'm not assuming they are constants, but it's the best we have.
    And anyway, some of them seem to be far from the thin disk, and since they spend most of their time there, it might not be such a big problem.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:14 No.330676
    >>330422
    They appear to live an inverted lifestyle -- perhaps they are from Australia?
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:14 No.330677
    >>330641
    records, lol, do people think that alien experience sound as we do?
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:16 No.330685
    Presumed life-form on the right appears to be ideally suited for the making of sandwiches. Could the markings to the right of this entity be their way of writing "kitchen?"
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:16 No.330686
    >>330677

    Given only a single data point, the best you can do is assume that data point is close to average.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:16 No.330687
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    I can't believe we used to send this junk into space.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:17 No.330695
    >>330685

    Life form on the left is ideally suited for making sandwiches. Life form on the right is ideally suited to be a reporter.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:17 No.330697
    Figure on left has appendage raised in a gesture of aggression. Military response indicated.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:18 No.330701
    >>330550
    Gotta be worth a try.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:18 No.330703
    >>330686
    this is what religionfags actually believe
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:20 No.330711
    >>330703

    I'm pretty sure that religionfags believe that, given only a single data point, that that data point is specially and uniquely handcrafted by a larger version of that same data point.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:20 No.330714
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    >>330703
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:22 No.330724
    >>330703

    Thomas Bayes was a Presbyterian minister. So yes.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:22 No.330732
    >>330711
    this is what closet religionfags actually believe
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:24 No.330740
    >>330635

    I would have something to identify the sun, perhaps a spectrum or something. An alien race may not be able to see any of the pulsars that we can see, and if they had the ability to spot every single pulsar in the local galaxy even if their poles aren't pointing at them, they probably already know about us. I expect any alien race could make a rough guess at where it came from based on it's speed and direction. They would just need something to pinpoint which of the stars in that area it came from.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:25 No.330747
    >>330262
    It's secretly encoded with coordinates to a massive energon stash
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:25 No.330752
    >>330687
    oh god i lol'd hard
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:27 No.330761
    They sent us our symbol for war?! Arm the fleets, send them to where this probe came from! Destroy them all!
    >> Wittichan !MOE.v8OInk 02/19/10(Fri)11:27 No.330764
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    >GOD MAKES SHINY BOX FALL FROM SKY

    >IT HAS FUNNY CREATURES ON AND LOTS OF SYMBOLS

    >WE WILL WORSHIP THESE

    A type 0 civilisation would do this for sure.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:28 No.330769
    >>330761

    Your species think the symbol for "your mother is fat" means war? lol
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:30 No.330789
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    You guys are reading it sideways.
    The upper right corner clearly depicts the creator species as a series of symmetrical and highly efficient probes.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:33 No.330816
    Alienspeak: what the fuck is this shit?!
    Might also be porn
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:35 No.330831
    >>330789
    The creatures attempting to escape from behind the force field must be their form of currency.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:36 No.330839
    I have no idea what that picture actually is in the frist place.

    So! My guess is that the lines from the middle are light or some shit
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:38 No.330843
    >>330839
    Those lines could represent their various scientific fields in respect to the technological singularity.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:39 No.330850
    >>330582
    No plaque, but not for that reason.

    Since the chance of anything finding it ever is so remote, it is extremely unlikely to matter, for good or ill, if the plaque is on there, But I am not sure it is wise to include "how to find us" information addressed to what will as likely be the Brain Munchers of Nebulon IX as the peaceful Science Prophets of Xanadu...
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:40 No.330855
    Hey, those figures on the plaque seem to be of the same kind as the figures in the erroneous RF signals we've been getting. But, where is the betentacled creature that should be copulating with the female?
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:43 No.330873
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    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:45 No.330887
    >>330873
    If that's true, then the message is as follows:
    Present tits to the following coordinates, or be reduced to your component strings.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:48 No.330893
    >>330873
    exactly what i was thinking too

    >>330887
    >strings
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:49 No.330907
    GOOD GRIEF THEY'RE NAKED!
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:49 No.330908
    >>330887

    "Sir, we've decoded the message!"

    "and?"

    "It says, TITS OR GTFO"
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:51 No.330922
    IIRC, there was a big conference on extraterrestrial life and such, and teams of scientists were tasked with creating a similar message to be "universally decodable" by alien species.

    They then swapped messages.

    Nobody could decode anybody else's message.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:52 No.330927
    It appears only one of them has a face, the other just has a smooth patch where the face should be. They both have massive genitals at the top though!
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:55 No.330948
    >>330927
    Pervert.

    But by your interpretation, the taller one appears to have undergone some analogue to circumcision, whereas the shorter still has a complete "cap membrane" on top of it's schlong.

    (Schlong is a universally recognized term.)
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)11:56 No.330954
    >>330948
    You mean they DON'T lay eggs like real civilized creatures?
    Absolutely disgusting!
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)12:01 No.330975
    Judging by their state of undress, I would deduce that split-crotch panties are virtually unobtainable, making it likely that these creatures are from the planet Algon, fifth world in the system of Aldebaran, the Red Giant in the constellation of Sagittarius.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)12:01 No.330976
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    >Another message in bottle humans sent. How cute.
    >Lets put it in museum.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)12:04 No.330991
    The right creature has artificial circles-implants?
    The left one has a strange growth between legs.
    The explosion at centre is probably their homeworld. And these circles confuse me.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)12:05 No.330992
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    >>330976
    > Another sentient species in the galaxy makes itself known. How cute.
    > Lets kill it.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)12:05 No.330993
    oh look, all those hairdressers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, management consultants, telephone sanitizers and the like we tricked into leaving eons ago colonized a planet
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)12:06 No.330999
    >>330314
    Sex is always worth its two-fold cost.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)12:07 No.331009
    It's impossible to determine the message this race is trying to convey.
    I suggest we attempt to communicate with our most powerful gamma burst relays. They should have no problem decoding the message no matter what side of the planet the reciever is on.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)12:11 No.331021
    >>330993
    >implying if this was true we wouldn't die from dirty telephones.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)12:12 No.331027
    >>331009

    lol'd

    Hey we pointed our telescopes at their system, turns out they're trying to kill all the surrounding systems by flooding them with harmful radio waves. Species must be hostile, avoid at all costs! Send a gamma burst to all local systems warning them!
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)12:17 No.331047
    Anyone noticed the odd patches of flesh hanging from their heads?

    I vote the carry their dead and/or young in those.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)12:19 No.331055
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    This message is irrelevant
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)12:20 No.331059
    >>331047
    they still die? what primitives!
    >> bumpbot 02/19/10(Fri)12:24 No.331090
    bumpbot bump!
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)12:28 No.331120
    It's obviously a shield of some kind that was just hit by random debris in space and it was scribbled up. It has no meaning at all. Let's toss it back into space.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)12:31 No.331143
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    clearly they are zxthyanoid, admittedly with strangely shaped flotation bladders and very non-functional tentacles.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)12:35 No.331181
    >>330533

    I agree, this needs to be archived.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)13:14 No.331402
    sympathy bamp for epic thread
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)13:17 No.331428
    Our top scientists couldn't figure out what the fuck that plaque says and you're asking aliens to decipher it?

    AHAAHAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)13:22 No.331452
    Well, the lowest set of forms may be meant to represent the star and planets in this species systems... although it's terribly incomplete, we've detected 27 planets in that system.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)13:24 No.331463
    WE GAVE OUR EXACT POSITION!?
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)13:27 No.331477
    /sci/ needs more shoopers.

    the plaque has much potential for lulz
    >> /scI/owan 02/19/10(Fri)13:32 No.331504
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    I propose a collaboration, let's come up with a new plaque design.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)13:35 No.331522
    >>331463
    i lol'd
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)13:41 No.331553
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    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)13:43 No.331566
    >>331504
    a plaque is a stupid idea. it needs to be some type of interactive display. and by the time we have the technology to do it right we will BE it.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)13:46 No.331584
    1.-Sent new plaque with actual photos and shit.
    2.-Attach string of diamond to probe, tie it to some empty cans with little stones on them
    3.-?????
    4.-Profit!
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)13:46 No.331585
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    >>331553
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)13:50 No.331612
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    >>330554
    >There's a higher chance of it just floating around in space for a long, long, long time rather than falling into any planets or moons... or stars

    >5000 years from now, a big starship with settlers on it leaves Earth with half the speed of light:
    Oh look, there is a cute yellow spot on an Asteroid on it's course towards the Sol-System.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)13:54 No.331640
    I completely understand what this says.


    lets go to this planet. They still haven't wiped out their niggers yet? LOL UNCIVILIZED ALIEN RACE IS PATHETIC.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)14:17 No.331769
    bamp
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)14:22 No.331801
    >>330262
    >figure out the meaning of... THE PIONEER PLAQUE!

    Sending some earthporn to aliens. They will come and rape our women.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)14:23 No.331806
    >>331801
    and men
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)15:53 No.332467
    bomp for fresh /sci/ducks
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)16:03 No.332557
    the symbols under the planet, and the lines on the left of the species are relative

    the symbols might be coordinates and the left picture is the map?
    >> sagan 02/19/10(Fri)16:07 No.332596
    *alien civilization is destroyed because they're made of antimatter*
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:00 No.333808
    >>330740
    Voyager might encounter a large object and shift direction due to its gravity well. It may not travel in a straight line once it leaves the solar system.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:22 No.333933
    lololololol titties. she's nekkid. uhh huh huhu huh huh hu huh huh...
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:29 No.333978
    Anybody else fapping furiously to this?
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:33 No.333996
    >>333808
    >voyager
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:34 No.334001
    the 2 cirlces at the top left probably has something to do with chemistry/periodic table. helium, maybe.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:37 No.334018
    "We enjoy placing Nordics in abstract minimal compositions."
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:37 No.334021
    >>333978
    no.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:39 No.334037
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    Azathoh:"zzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz'
    *Voyager hits it in the face*
    Azathoh: "Oh fuck you, universe"
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:43 No.334072
    "HAHAHAA, THEY'RE ATTEMPING TO COMMUNICATE WITH IMAGES - BRUTES!!!"
    >implying aliens use send messages with their mind to others.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:46 No.334090
    guys
    no one in the world can infer this shit with common knowledge
    it's cryptic
    at best.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:47 No.334095
    Extremy sexual dimorphism seems to have affected the limbs of one of their (only two?!) genders. Possible related to warfare or attracting a mate.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:48 No.334096
    And we're not even on the radio message, which is hard mode
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:49 No.334103
    >>330262
    Lol that guy has a smaller penis:body size ratio than any other being on Earth. On his chest, it appears he has tattooed the bell curve, suggesting they are familiar with statistical mathematics. They have a third eye in the middle of their stomachs too, perhaps they have evolved a second brain in another part of their body as we have?
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:50 No.334113
    >>330992
    FUCKING SHIT!
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:51 No.334114
    >>330271
    You really think we look objectively like life-forms? I mean I guess it's possible the aliens would have evolved limbs and things in which case maybe they could hazard a guess, still kind of a leap of logic, though.

    This is assuming they're even capable of comprehending 2d images in the same way we are.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:52 No.334126
    >>330264
    So that means the satellite is over 20 times larger than the planet?
    This is a new discovery! A solar system, barely the size of my foot.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:53 No.334132
    >>334114
    It is the single most detailed part of the image, though. Everything else looks like it has some logical meaning, aside from that.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:54 No.334142
    Hey Jyzzzzak looks like someone is advertising slaves on the slave market!
    Get your wallet and your gun! YEEHAW!
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:55 No.334149
    >>334114
    The eye has evolved multiple times on Earth. It's reasonable to assume that intelligent aliens will have vision.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:56 No.334153
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    ok, guys, here's the hard mode
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:57 No.334158
    >>334095
    hrm...
    that's a stretch, they probably won't assume that if they're intelligent and discriminate.
    We have to take logical steps here m8
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:58 No.334167
    >>334153
    "Hey look at this, it must be an ad for a new video game!"
    "That's awesome, I wonder if our parents will buy it for us?"
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)19:59 No.334170
    >>334153

    That was the message humanity sent out into space in the mid 20th century through radiowaves or some shit in search of any life to respond

    nothing did
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:02 No.334187
    >>334170
    > 23 units wide
    > simple matrix representation
    Who the hell would create a message like this? Clearly linguistic theory has no place at science conferences.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:04 No.334205
    That plaque was pretty retarded ,they had used a code with a related numerical system on base 10

    like

    A 1 thing
    B 2 things
    C 3 things
    ......

    Damn that fucking plaque is confusing for an alien

    except of course the naked fag and bitch
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:08 No.334221
    >>334205
    they also erased external genitalia on the female drawing, because of complaining christians.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:08 No.334228
    >>334221
    So the aliens would infer that humanity is still ruled by superstition and arrogant faith. Nice.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:10 No.334238
    >>334228
    ...uh, no.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:11 No.334242
    what's with that thing exploding on the left?
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:12 No.334251
    look, they're humanoid, just like us.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:12 No.334256
    I don't understand why did they bother with the H2 symbol?
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:13 No.334259
    >>334238
    Oh, so they'd infer a mature and responsible culture. okay.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:13 No.334260
    "We show pen0rz but not her part"
    "Why we do this"
    "Iono lol!!! It's just our social structure"
    AMAZING!!! THese beings are limited by social structures.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:14 No.334266
    >>334260

    just fuck off feminist alien
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:16 No.334282
    >>334266
    Did not imply female rights
    Implied human ignorance
    you presumptuous pup.
    then again, talking about what you don't know is the easy part....
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:18 No.334301
    >>334259
    aliens wouldn't know enough about human anatomy to say something "wasn't there"

    furthermore, if they somehow figured out the female should have something too, there's nothing stopping them from assuming it's on her butt or back because it's not in the diagram.

    or, they could assume that because of some descendants of these creatures thousands of years ago wrote a book that says sex is bad, there was enough pressure on the people who made the probe to leave that part out for "moral" reasons.

    Zarxblag's Razor, dumbass.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:18 No.334302
    >>334282

    >Implying female aliens should not stay in the kitchen
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:19 No.334308
    >>334153
    this combined with the plaque reveals us to have some serious ego issues. the human form (in two varieties!) dominates the voyager plaque and is even attempted to be squeezed into 90 pixels.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:19 No.334309
    >>334302
    This is not even an argument.
    Just get out.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:20 No.334325
    >>334308
    ego issues? if you discovered an intelligent race, wouldn't YOU want to know what the fuck they looked like?
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:22 No.334336
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    >>334170
    Arecibo reply
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:26 No.334350
    >>334325
    mental capabilities are way more important than the physical looks. that space could have been occupied by more diagrams instead
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:27 No.334366
    >>334336

    ??
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:29 No.334375
    >>334325
    yes, but that is not the purpose of either of these messages. these are the first contact attempts, they are message-in-a-bottle attempts to have someone notice us and initiate actual communication (which we are incapable of). and in these they fail; as explained it would be really difficult to design an effective one at all. so i guess if they knew at the time it was a pointless symbolic gesture there was no harm in it. but any serious attempt should not include anything bu the barest minimum that can allow effective communication and identification of earth.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:30 No.334383
    >>334350
    ...This is for sear curiosity. Seriously how can you not think about how aliens would look like.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:30 No.334387
    Well, the third circle obviously has a death laser pointing to it.

    THEY DESTROYED THEIR OWN PLANET.

    This is the last that remains of them. :(
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:32 No.334407
    >>334383
    knowing how they think is higher priority.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:32 No.334413
    Build monument to new shiney thing fall from sky.

    off-topic: Why do we always asume aliens are more advanced than ourselves?
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:34 No.334425
    >>334366
    Reply to the Arecibo message from an unknown source.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:37 No.334449
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    >>334425
    it was found in a crop circle
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:38 No.334459
    >>334413
    when talking about first contact they have initiated, much less their actually visiting earth, it is accurate. in truth there is doubtless less advanced life in the universe, including both animal and less developed sentience. i guess it's not as discussed because even if we do somehow contact them, it's not like they'd be able to respond.
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:39 No.334462
    >>334383
    >>334325
    Translation: "Tits or GTFO".
    >> Anonymous 02/19/10(Fri)20:40 No.334473
    >>334425

    >unknown source

    >implying was not done by a troll with a radio



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