A plaque, with (naked) humans on it (because aliens might not wear/understand wearing clothing as a matter of habit), directions as to how to get here via a diagram that Sagan et al figured anyone with visual abilities should be able to decipher, and a golden record with Earth sounds and human greetings in dozens of languages. Can't remember what was on which, but yeah, I think they were all armed with info on Earth. This was all huge and no secret back when the things launched, actually. Hell, I think Sagan mentions it in the original Cosmos.
There was also a message sent out 30 or more years ago by Arecibo at some distant star that basically said "hi", but, as it didn't repeat, it'd probably just wind up being another species' Wow! signal.
This isn't the first time we've broadcasted our position. Not to mention anyone nearby might have been able to pick up radio and television signals well enough to figure out that there's information in those waves.
I am still struck at how pathologically naïve the people who thought it was a good idea were.
Doing that assumes the odds are for near-zero chance an advanced civilization capable of long-distance space travel would come to conquer or exterminate us. Or "benevolently" opress us forever.
That's "I'm going to hike in the Morrocan Atlas because everyone is nice and peaceful" level of stupidly naïve.
( That ended-up with two young Scandinavian women raped then beheaded for Allah's glory. )
Yes, well, it's pretty much like the first season of ST:Enterprise, isn't it?
First episode:
Humans: "Yay! We're going out to space to make lots and lots of friends!"
Vulcans: "Not everyone is like us"
Humans: "Ah, it's fine! Let's go!"
Later:
"Why does everyone shoot at us?"
Though actually, what really gets me is how humans expect to be treated AS EQUALS by a technologically superior species. That's about the most laughably hypocritical thing about it.
When they talk about "First Contact", they always speak of it as being like INTRA-species contact - Europeans with New Worlders, for instance. But it's more like Europeans meeting North American grizzly bears - an INTER-species encounter. And we're the lower-tech beast.
And THAT is why I think Independence Day is the most hypocritically stupid, self-blind piece of garbage ever made. (especially that puke-inducing speech). Humans themselves would find every reason to declare a species in their way "not people, just 'animals'" if there was something THEY wanted on another planet. Unless they happened to be pretty enough to be legally fuckable. All you need to do is examine Chomsky's amazing moving goalposts wrt ASL and other language-using non-human apes. No matter what the apes accomplished, it would never be good enough for him, because he doesn't WANT them to have language - it might upstage his precious turd-whirlder commies, boohoo.
And Pioneer.
A plaque, with (naked) humans on it (because aliens might not wear/understand wearing clothing as a matter of habit), directions as to how to get here via a diagram that Sagan et al figured anyone with visual abilities should be able to decipher, and a golden record with Earth sounds and human greetings in dozens of languages. Can't remember what was on which, but yeah, I think they were all armed with info on Earth. This was all huge and no secret back when the things launched, actually. Hell, I think Sagan mentions it in the original Cosmos.
There was also a message sent out 30 or more years ago by Arecibo at some distant star that basically said "hi", but, as it didn't repeat, it'd probably just wind up being another species' Wow! signal.
This isn't the first time we've broadcasted our position. Not to mention anyone nearby might have been able to pick up radio and television signals well enough to figure out that there's information in those waves.
It's notable that they used images of both men and women, since those are the two inescapable forms of humans. Very transphobic.
I am still struck at how pathologically naïve the people who thought it was a good idea were.
Doing that assumes the odds are for near-zero chance an advanced civilization capable of long-distance space travel would come to conquer or exterminate us. Or "benevolently" opress us forever.
That's "I'm going to hike in the Morrocan Atlas because everyone is nice and peaceful" level of stupidly naïve.
( That ended-up with two young Scandinavian women raped then beheaded for Allah's glory. )
Yes, well, it's pretty much like the first season of ST:Enterprise, isn't it?
First episode:
Humans: "Yay! We're going out to space to make lots and lots of friends!"
Vulcans: "Not everyone is like us"
Humans: "Ah, it's fine! Let's go!"
Later:
"Why does everyone shoot at us?"
Though actually, what really gets me is how humans expect to be treated AS EQUALS by a technologically superior species. That's about the most laughably hypocritical thing about it.
When they talk about "First Contact", they always speak of it as being like INTRA-species contact - Europeans with New Worlders, for instance. But it's more like Europeans meeting North American grizzly bears - an INTER-species encounter. And we're the lower-tech beast.
And THAT is why I think Independence Day is the most hypocritically stupid, self-blind piece of garbage ever made. (especially that puke-inducing speech). Humans themselves would find every reason to declare a species in their way "not people, just 'animals'" if there was something THEY wanted on another planet. Unless they happened to be pretty enough to be legally fuckable. All you need to do is examine Chomsky's amazing moving goalposts wrt ASL and other language-using non-human apes. No matter what the apes accomplished, it would never be good enough for him, because he doesn't WANT them to have language - it might upstage his precious turd-whirlder commies, boohoo.
I think the Wow signal was legit but like you said just one signal.
It was actually Voyager, and the music was Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #2.
I remember because I was disappointed that Mulder guessed it was #3, and then was corrected by the congressman guy.
Prepare for you next leap!