BINARY CODE [8b]
Arecibo Observatory. Puerto Rico. November 16, 1974. Early pioneers of SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, aim the world’s largest radio telescope at a cluster of stars 25,000 light years away to send a transmission out into the cosmos. The coded signal consists of binary digits – zeros and ones – that form a message designed to notify other potentially advanced beings of our existence.
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“This message into space, it was encoded in what’s called binary code, cause it’s the simplest around. Listen, we’re trying to send a message to the aliens and because you don’t know anything about them you have to make this as obvious as possible. Now, here’s the message over here that was actually sent in 1974. And it starts off with teaching the ABC’s to the aliens. Well, not ABC’s, the 1-2-3’s, because right up here are the numbers from one to 10 but in binary. And anybody who has thought about binary should be able to figure that out, including the aliens. Right underneath that, this funny thing here has the numbers one, six, seven and so forth. Those are the atomic numbers of the elements that make up our bodies – hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus.” – Seth Shostak, Ph.D. (Senior Astronomer, SETI Inst.) |
The coded message also contained information about our DNA, the figure of a human, a graphic of the solar system, and a graphic of a radio telescope. For decades, SETI scientists wondered if their cosmic message would ever be received or answered. Then, nearly 27 years later, there appeared to be a response.
Hampshire, England. August, 2001. Next to the Chilbolton Radio Observatory, two crop formations appeared in a field. Both were unlike any other ever found.
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“They were both pixelated, meaning that when you’re on the ground, you couldn’t perceive what the crop circle was. But once from the air, you could readily identify the pattern.” – William Henry (Author / Investigative Mythologist), |
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“One of the crop formations that appeared at Chilbolton in 2001, was a face, but the other one was far, far more interesting, because it greatly resembled the message that had been sent in 1974. There were very, very subtle differences between the two. They looked identical, but when you actually looked at them, the difference gave a key that seemed to be almost like an answer.” – Andrew Collins (Author, Gateway to Atlantis), |
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“One of them was the fact that the human being that we sent out, when it came back it had what appeared to look like some kind of Grey alien with a large head and a small body. It also had a different system of planets, which is suggesting it’s a different solar system, and also it had a different DNA sequence as well. And so, just these three things really caught my attention, because either it was a brilliant hoax, or it was actually a message that came back and was a response to that original SETI message way back in the 1970s.” – Hugh Newman (Author, Earth Grids) |
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“And all of these suggested to the crop circle community and the media, that we really had received a reply to the Arecibo message of 1974. Can we see it as a reply? Yes, indeed, it was. But actually who created it and their exact purpose will remain a mystery.” – Andrew Collins (Author, Gateway to Atlantis), |
Some think the reply may have been to tell us that we’re on the right track, communicating in the universal language of the cosmos – binary code. A German mathematician, Gottfried Leibniz, is credited with defining binary code in the 17th-century. In turn, Leibniz is said to have crediting his inspiration to the 5,000-year-old Chinese text of I Ching, an ancient oracle code used to communicate divine guidance.
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“The I Ching is a kind of cryptic oracular inscription that you’re supposed to decipher and it was heavily used in divination in early China. The numerical symbols or values are actually tied to a semi-mythical figure by the name of Fu Xi, who is perhaps the earliest legendary ruler of China.” – Dominic Steavu, Ph.D. |
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“The history or origin of the I Ching is very interesting, because it is said that this knowledge was imparted on Fu Xi by an otherworldly being.” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos |
According to ancient Chinese myth, Fu Xi lived around 3000 BC. He and his sister were the sole survivors of a great flood, and together they repopulated the Earth.
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“And it was said that one day, he was on the Yellow River, and a water dragon appeared to him, and that on the back of this water dragon, was revealed to him the eight trigrams.” – Andrew Collins (Author, Gateway to Atlantis), |
These eight trigrams are the foundation of the I Ching. They are made up of a series of broken and unbroken lines – a distinct binary code.
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“Fu Xi was given the information of the I Ching – what was essentially a binary code. It’s basically proven that this kind of mathematical binary code, is what is going to drive all computers in the future. And this is something that extraterrestrials on other planets and other galaxies must also be using.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods) |
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“Some have surmised that the idea for the binary code, was gleaned from the I Ching. It’s a very curious thing. Especially the idea the basics of the I Ching was imparted by another type of being.” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos |
Could the I Ching have been an attempt by extraterrestrials to set up a common communication language with mankind? Might this also support the notion that the crop circles in Chilbolton are an actual alien response to the signal that SETI sent out into the cosmos in 1974? And have extraterrestrials been leaving messages here on Earth for us to discover for thousands of years as Ancient Astronaut Theorists contend? Perhaps further clues can be found by examining other mysterious symbols that have been discovered carved into rock all over the world.
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