New Message Revealed by NASA Craft Covertly Seeking to Detect Extraterrestrial Life

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One of NASA's latest probes is carrying on the grand tradition of blasting humanity's message out to the stars — and this one's searching for life outside of our pale blue dot.

With METI's help, NASA compiled recordings of people saying the word "water" in 103 global languages and converted them into visual waveforms.

"METI’s earliest contribution to the project draws on the science of linguistics, which identifies the major families of languages on Earth," METI founder and president Douglas Vakoch told the website in an email.

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Author / Journalist: Noor Al-Sibai

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Topics: Europa SETI The digest NASA Off World

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Published On: 2024-03-13 @ 23:30:58 (1 months ago)

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