A group of American scientists and linguists from Lexington, Kentucky, recorded and sent into space the first advertisement of its kind for inhabitants of other worlds, with an appeal to visit our planet, and specifically Lexington, as tourists. The Space.com portal reports this.
The message includes a cryptic image of Kentucky’s rugged landscape, human figures and horses, as well as diagrams of water, ethyl alcohol and molecules of the happiness hormone dopamine. That last part is because Kentucky is famous for its bourbon industry.
The signal was sent using an infrared laser to the TRAPPIST-1 star system, located 40 light-years, or 378 trillion kilometers, from Earth.
Experts chose TRAPPIST-1 because it contains a large number of potentially habitable planets. It will reach its advertising target by 2063.
“We are targeting the TRAPPIST-1 system because we could get a response from there within a person’s lifetime, provided our message is actually received and deciphered by someone,” said Robert Lodder, an astrobiologist and expert in the search for extraterrestrial aliens. intelligence SETI.
The project, which will introduce Earth to Aliens, was prepared by Lexington’s VisitLEX tourism team and advertising agency Cornett.
Previously in the USA seen Mobile application for collecting information about UFOs.