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Re: Image comments for The Arecibo Message
Posted by: John_Stone
Date: 01/11/2005 03:11AM
"The Arecibo broadcast represented one approach. Those 1,679 zeros and ones carried hidden meaning for any intelligent species who noticed that 1,679 is the product of two prime numbers, 73 and 23. Arrange the message in 73 rows of 23 numbers, and you get a picture painted in bits."
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