What Was in the Message Earth Broadcast for Aliens?
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This message will get an alien accused of being a conspiracy theorist.
You're funny, the alien overlords shall spare you, for now...
We are actively looking for such a kind of signal.
If is way to regular to be mistaken for random noise.
No conspiracy nutcase will decode it, scientists or at least communication specialist will.
Z=@×
Nah, it’ll be a Rick roll
@@mihan2d nemgo clackurs wobo. FfffGh
The message has so many possible logical ways to decode that even super intelligent aliens are likely to decode it wrong. When you mix numbers, atoms, and pictures together with no indication of the "solved" condition, it is extremely easy to interpret it completely wrong but assume it is right.
The aliens, watching this video: OHHH, so THAT’S what that means.
Upon viewing the message, the aliens will immediately shout "Nerds!" and never think about humans again.
If they're way more advanced than us, they probably won't shout that
@@pulkitmohta8964 there's a difference between being more advanced than us, and enjoying puzzles.
@joseph ka You will feel the indignation and wrath from Christ our Lord for spreading mistruths about the gospel and prophecy. Begone, zealot!
any alien that would spend the time needed to work this out would also be a nerd
@joseph ka damn i didnt know jehovah's witnesses moved their operations online
Humans: sends complicated message
Aliens: Thats why we dont talk to you weirdo
lmao.
@@infoprod7731 ayy
"fucking nerds lets not invite them to the coolest annual intergalactical party"
BRUH they should've Rickrolled the aliens..
Are you *trying* to provoke the invasion? ;)
Provoke them with this
ruclips.net/video/bHjttHPK5z0/видео.html
@@sebastiandevosi7043 oooooh no that will be worse
DO YOU WANT AN INVASION?! CUZ THAT HOW YOU GET AN INVASION!
@@sebastiandevosi7043 did I just experience god or is this the new rickroll
Dr. Drake: "I for one, welcome our new Alien-Overlords!"
Is that a hl2 reference?
@@mikelanimations138
“I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords” is a memorable quote from the 1977 film adaptation of H.G. Wells' short story Empire of the Ants. In online conversations, the phrase can be used to suggest that an outsider group or entity is powerful enough to rule over humanity. In discussion forums and chatrooms, its phrasal template "I, for one, welcome our new X overlords" has been widely used to express mock submission towards an obsessively controlling individual for the sake of humor.
@@The_Voluptuary Oh damn, I thought it was a Simpsons reference.
How can you forget to mention That the aracebo telescops collapsed Not to Long ago?
Maybe it was recorded beforehand?
Goddamit can ppl stop saying "to" when they mean "too"?! It's triggering at this point
@@tansoon8257 I’m sure Jo didn’t mean too.
A-re-ci used to bo!
Tan Soon calm down, English might not be their first language
"avengers : infinity war" hmmm seems like a nice documentary . hope to see it soon
2020 is not over yet, now it maybe a movie but in the future maybe a scientific documentary
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5:11 isn’t that broken now?
@@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245 yes
I preferred the live re-enactment.
When they come there gonna be disappointed they no telescope anymore
Barrow on an HAI vid nice
sadge :(
you sure the aliens didn't blow it up as a retaliation for sending out wrong DNA and population data?
F. Arecibo, thou shalt be missed ;(
@@heh2393 yeah
*Bob:* "Hey, Phil, did you hear about that message we received from Earth?"
*Phil:* "Yeah. The primates are attempting to communicate with us. How precious."
*Bob:* "Any idea what they are trying to say?"
*Phil:* "No clue."
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@@AxxLAfriku bruh
sorry if i was a little rude in my last reply but stop spamming, AxxL
Bob: My kid could draw better than that.
@@AxxLAfriku how the heck can you even have two gfs without cheating on either of them?
I think they should change it to simply, "Hello there!"
General Kenobi
@@Jonasm501 you are a bold one
Indeed! I guess they figured as long as they were paying for the full 280 characters, they ought to get their money’s worth... 😉
they should change it to hello world im earth
By shear coincidence in the language of the aliens we send "Hello there" to, translates to "Exterminate"
I’m so confused how tf is an alien supposed to figure that out?
The message uses a lot of math and science, which is probably the only things that are universal. (One is one and hydrogen is element #1 no matter where you are.) A very smart alien might be able to figure it out. If instead we tried to use language, they'd have basically have no chance of figuring out anything because they don't know English.
If an intelligent alien race were to find this it likely wouldn't take long for them to decode the message. As it would be extremely obvious that it is not natural and that it was created by some other civilization and the first thing they would use is math to decode it since math is universal. Once they realize how to decode it using math it won't take long at all for them to read the message.
@@Charles-yi3mx It still makes some implicit assumptions, though. For instance that it deems it natural that you read from "north" to "south" instead of the other way around, or "in" to "out" or whatever.
@@lonestarr1490 or that they see and use math the same way we do, because while math is universal, humans created their own way to portray it.
The same goes for the periodic table, smart aliens might have something similar, but they could have categorised it in another way
The best way to understand what i mean is i think how we measure things.
As an example,Something has it's own height, and it never changes, but humans measure it in different ways. Someone will measure it in centimetres, and someone in feets or inches.
We don't know how aliens do it.
Comments like this are the reason aliens will have no trouble figuring it out...
This seems like the #1 way to get a message discarded
Aliens: alright we got your message and are here to inv- wait where is everybody?
And then they find the doomstay bunker of the last human that decided to play the last ultimate prank on those that would find our ruins and write on the wall:
We knew you would come to invade us, so we did the job ourselves, including the follow up rebellions. Have fun with what's left!
@@EnraEnerato *building colapses in the background*
Imagine the level of intelligence required from the aliens to figure that out.
Well, they just need to know binary code to read the message. However, the message is filled with numbers that even a great genius could not figure out. If I showed you : 12 - 30 - 3. You could not know that 12 is the number of beers in a box, 30 is the average age when a gamer will leave his mother's basement and 3 is the average amount of potatoes in a pound.
It might take them a while, but they'd probably figure it out. Imagine if we got a similar message, we'd have our top scientists pouring over it day and night.
@@Croz89 Still, most probably we'd figure it out translating it to our current knowledge, which translates into our daily life, not theirs, therefore creating a bias with a high chance of not decoding it correctly.
While for us the message might be a friendly hello, for them might be a "go f. yourself". Let's hope not.
@@dantnad I think it's unlikely. It's not really a hello or a go fuck yourself, just a "this is who we are, and this is where we're from". And really any civilisation advanced enough to come here Is going to understand the concept of cultural misunderstanding, even if in some extremely convoluted fashion the message seems offensive to them. The point about the way these messages are encoded is that they are tied to unchanging physics, something that is as true for the aliens as it is for us.
honestly not an unbelivable amount. If we got something like this some random subreddit would crack it in under a motnh
They should have broadcasted memes so aliens can get along with us
And if they Cringed we're dead.
oh hi evo
@@AndyHappyGuy hello
Dankmemer
Translation Appendix 2:
The following is a translation of an unknown language transmitted 192 light years from a single star system:
*_"whats up guys, its quandale dingle here, Ive been arrested for multiple crimes including: posting anime, eating pineapple pizza, the grand world of italy, ajnn"_*
Signal has been traced to similar origins of a possible hostile unintelligent race. Waiting for further instructions.
3:40 The DNA double helix isn't symmetrical, though its often incorrectly depicted as such in iconography. On one side the major groove is about 22 Å wide and the minor groove opposite is about 12 Å wide.
How do I pronounce / say Å ?
@@hanifmacca That unit is the angstrom, a measure of really really small distances: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angstrom
Of if you're a Swede its a long a, kind of like the "au" in "automobile", but you probably want the science version :p
Me as a human, doesn't understand a single thing if you didn't explain it. Yet, they hope aliens that don't speak our language understand all of these
Edit : before more people literally attack me for not understanding the code, yes, i understand it. I just said i won't understand it IF there's no explanation on what is this and that. Next point is, MAYBE the aliens doesn't use binary code? Idk if that makes sense
If the aliens are smarter than us, they'll understand, if they don't...why would we want to communicate with stupid aliens?
@@norma8686 what if they are dumb
@@norma8686 bc we have nothing better to do
@@norma8686 because... then we could exterminate the xenos and make the Imperium of Man a thing?
Well, it uses mathematics, which is potentially the only thing that they can understand. Other life forms may not need to develop senses like us depending on their homeworld, but they would probably have to understand the universal concept of math and numbers to be intelligent.
I'm a software engineer and even after I knew those numbers were supposed to be binary I didn't figure out why 1 had 2 dots. The aliens are never going to figure this out lmao
there's a start mark to show the least significant bit
USA's broadcast (1974): atomic numbers, nucleotides, humanity, etc.
Soviet Union's broadcast (1962): "World...Lenin...Russia"
Yes because the US is ideally Humanitarian and the savior of mankind. Definitely not the one destroying it on daily bases. Such a joke 🤣
"Must...Crush...Capitalism"
@@RAMBO14001 At the time, it was.
@@RAMBO14001 tbh China is way more prejudicial as a whole, with like, carbon emissions and... Murderous totalitarian state and colonial expansion. Not that i like america, but come on
@@UnprofessionalProfessor in 73 the Vietnam war was still ongoing, the US only thinks of its own interests like every other country
In Carl Sagan's novel "Contact" (and in the movie), there's a sequence in which human astronomers receive an alien message, and then decode it using the same techniques that Enrico Fermi hoped aliens would know to use if they received a message from humanity.
I like to imagine an alien sitting at their desk, having a mental breakdown, trying to decipher all of this
An alien 25,000 years later: “hum, my holovision is having weird static”
1:18 “Graphic design is our passion” -Humans
Tl;dr: we sent out a message to aliens being like, "ayo, suck it green boiii"
*Tl;dw
You mean 69 position? 🤔
@Lone Starr ope, u right
@Likith Charan nope :)
dream smp reference by any chance?
Let's hope Aliens also have MIT in their planet
I'm guessing that if you can receive that, your technology is at least equal to 20th century Earth
So basically some dude created a long ass binary code that has a few repetitions but otherwise is an indiscernible, arbitrary sequence that aliens are unlikely to be able to decipher
But then again, it's potentially a good barometer for figuring out whether an alien species is so advanced that they deserve to be our overlords
In all fairness, seeing a bunch of random numbers and not knowing what they're supposed to mean will probably make the message undecipherable.
Even if the aliens crack the binary count to 10, which is a stretch, the next part, where they're suppose to infer atomic numbers and organic chemistry is quite a stretch.
Stock footage: **exists
Half as interesting: I can milk you
"I can milk you"
Hot
Imagine Aliens kidnap you and ask to decode this😂😂
The first radio signal strong enough to reach space was Hitlers speech opening the 1936 olympics in berlin
Space Nazis incoming Darth Vader proceeds to point death star at earth
I’m sure we’d meet them in person long before they actually get the message
1:24 I work in local TV and ended up using this exact same broll of the kid opening a gift for a segment I was editing two days ago.
No joke.
Cool story bro
Aliens: humans still fighting over trivial matters. Must destroy!
Aliens: “Yeah, your periodic table isn’t the same as ours, so we thought you were little balls of intelligent metal.”
RIP Arecibo Telescope
The amount of protons in the nucleus of atoms is an universal feature.
Humans: Here is a picture to describe humanity, life and earth.
Aliens:
*Read 3:00 AM*
Would it hurt our egos if aliens already know we're here and give 0 fucks? Like when you see a bug on the sidewalk and give it a glance as you step over it.
@@evillbunny2 if there is one or multiple type 2.5+ civilizations in the universe that is very likely.. humans are like type 0.75 and they may not be bothered to spend time on us
@@evillbunny2 we most probably are trying to meet other bugs on footpath as we wouldn't survive people on footpath
If this had happened today, we would’ve send something like Rick Roll and they will come and blow us up
Just for fun, someone should send this coded message to all mathematicians and computer scientists on earth and ask them to decode it.
I would pay to see their interpretations
Well this explains why no one has deciphered our “message”
3:20
Now I know why the aliens never reached us
We’re just some drunken idiots
2:00
What's funny is that right before I watched this video, I completed an assessment for my Computer Science III H class.
Stellar species together strong
Sam, saw what you did there...
As someone who lives ~ 30mi E of the Arecibo Observatory, which just recently "went dark" and not probably able to get back to work until the US Dept. of Defense (whose money built it in the first place in the early 1960's) put up U$550 Mln to put it back up, it is "your way" of commemorating what the people there did all those years.
SALUD AL OBSERVAORIO DE ARECIBO (1963-2020)!
PS: By now you may know that one of the James Bond movies and Carl Sagan's Contact! were filmed there...
Imagine this is all the aliens needed to solve that thing 😂🤣💀
I can just imagine the alien version of a conspiracy theorist analyzing the message.
Ah yes, let's learn how to make the perfect grilled cheese sandwich to save us from the incoming alien overlords
No wonder why they already shot down where we sent this message from.
Mistake at 3:03
You referred to nitrogen as being in the second column whereas it was in the third and highlighted as such.
I think that its funny that the ENTIRE messenge depends on the assumption that these aliens use the exact same number system as us
And Alphabet, And Periodic Table, And Dictionary of Elements.
it actually does not, at all. it's all binary which is the simplest possible number system, and the rest relies on universal constants.
Math is universal. It doesn't matter how we write it the concept of math and how it works is universal.
@@nykidxxx Our periodic tables would be the same since they are objective things that exist. They may call them different things but if they can use math to decode the message and then they will realize what we are talking about.
@@olbradley yeah but I doubt they’d use the same numbers or element names that we do or even speak a verbal language or even see
Even assuming this message reached a civilization that was sufficiently technologically advanced to receive it, how would they know how to decode it? Imagine it we got a message like this. Would we be smart enough to arrange the information in a rectangle with the length and width of the two numbers that the number of bits of information in the message is divisible by? Not likely, because that's kind of an arbitrary way to encode a message. He should have just had NASA shoot up a message in a bottle or something.
This needs to be more seriously talked about on wendover productions
3:54 Deliberate mistake to provoke engagement in the comments ;)
"We've been trying to reach you about your starship's extended warranty."
We are calling you because according to our information you have been involved in spaceship collision that was not your fault. Is that correct?
You can send the only message that matters in all of that, using a tiny sliver of the bandwidth, and requiring no decoding whatsoever. The message you send (in blips) is 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17. Which decodes without decoding as, "We know what prime numbers are."
I'm in the process of binge watching all of HAI's videos from the newest to the oldest 😁
Been watching you for a couple of years, and the narration never fails to make me laugh. Probably the best one yet.... The Stewie Griffin reference finished me off 🤣
F in the chat for the Arecibo Telescope 😞
F
*Alien:* so, you gotta planet for me?
*Drake:* yes sir, I do
The only thing more endless than space itself is the savageness in this video. Well done
"Hi Peeps"
That is the message
He should have rickrolled the aliens though >:(
3:45 “4,294,441,822: 4 billion, 294 thousand, 441 thousand, 822” 😂
Never before have i chuckled more than 32 times in 6 minutes
If aliens get here from this message they would have earned the right to live on earth 🤣
Hello there! I hope you stay safe, have a nice day, and enjoy the holidays! God bless you! :D
Not gonna lie, I burst out laughing at the Nevada counting joke
We're lucky that Sam has a soothing voice because this video made me sleepy.
I think I'll listen to this tonight when I need to sleep.
Avengers was such a tragic documentary
Didn't the first Avengers film teach us that lesson as well?
That pattern would make a great Christmas sweater.
Great video.
Way too much in that message requires context... should have consulted with so linguistics.
3:44 That's not how numbers work
If even a person would have come up with those answers individually, I'd be impressed
There was also one which was basically ‘send us text online and we’ll include it’
Now I’m Starting to think the ALIENS Received this Messages YEARSSSSS AGO .... & they’re STILL trying to Decode the message 😭
I doubt it an entire planetary population with the necessary physics equations to even build a working radio receiver would get it pretty quickly. If we were to get one publishing it on the internet with a $1k cash prize and I bet it would be claimed in under 24 hours.
1:48 Sam really needs to get some good jokes...
Tbh we are way more cringy than him
then the aliens sent back:
*DAME TU COSITA AH AH*
Basically we sent a message that would get us bullied in the galactic playground for being a smartass.
Press F for the Arecibo Telescope.
F
Where to learn to fight Avenger level alien 👾 invasion.
HAI: Skillshare!
That Nevada ballot counting joke at 1:45 hit too close to home
Aliens Jim: What's that Alien Tom?
Alien Tom: i have no clue... Its a kid's doodles?
Alien Jim: aw... It sucks.
The bad thing is that the aliens interpret the message as an act of war.
War is a primitive instinct, if there is a civilization out there that exists out there that is far superior than us they’re most likely not interested in engaging in something that probably has no benefit to them
two minutes in and I can’t think of a funny comment. I think I deserve recognition as compensation
Naw
And I can’t think of a slick reply
My friend you just have to relinquish your Merican identity sometimes...
Over the last year, HAI has become a window into Sam's slow descent into madness.
25,000 years is around the same time as the Dark Age of Technology... the madman.
Still waiting on the bricks video
it's on nebula
Can alien solve this code?
Hey, I got my 6 year old Lite Brite for Christmas this year. That's pretty neat.
(Not so) fun fact: the Arecibo telescope collapsed a few weeks ago, after almost 50 years of operation and many discoveries. For decades, it was the largest and most important telescope we had ever built. RIP Arecibo :'(
Who read in the title : what was in the message aliens broadcasted for earth.
Only me? Yea I know , I’m dumb
I also read as that
Naw
“meters”. ahh, the distance light travels in 1/3,000,000 solar seconds. totally an intuitive unit for aliens to figure out
Sam: We might not get a response for 50,000 years...
Reapers: We can wait.
I don’t know why but I find your voice quite calming lmao
Do they actually think that the aliens will actually understand this?
If an intelligent alien race were to find this it likely wouldn't take long for them to decode the message. As it would be extremely obvious that it is not natural and that it was created by some other civilization and the first thing they would use is math to decode it since math is universal. Once they realize how to decode it using math it won't take long at all for them to read the message.
@@olbradley yea, you are probably right!😅👍
saw this movie
it was hitler's '36 olympics
That's a big mindflex
“Wow humanity is shorter than I expected”
“But we sent you our height”
“Of what. Half of your population 😂”
“😅”