Trying To Communicate With Aliens, NASA Will Send Pictures Of Naked Human To Space

Illustration of a NASA rocket flying from the Complex 39 area. (NASA/Unplash dock)

JAKARTA - NASA plans to send coded binary messages as well as naked images of humans to aliens. The plan is included in the Beacon in the Galaxy (BITG) project.

The BITG project focuses on communicating with extraterrestrial life. Although it is acknowledged that until now there is no evidence related to alien life in the universe.

The binary-coded message to aliens from NASA includes a number of components, such as basic mathematics and physics, the biochemical composition of life on earth, digital representations, and the position of the solar system.

A scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jonathan Jiang, who created the binary message with his colleagues. The message is summarized in a paper.

They hope to connect with aliens or extraterrestrials through messages written in the binary code.

According to scientists, using binary code is the best way to convey concepts to ETI (extraterrestrial intelligence).

"Although mathematical concepts in human terms are potentially unrecognizable by ETI, binary is likely universal across all intelligence," the scientists wrote in the paper.

Binary is known to be the simplest form of mathematics because it involves only two opposite states; zero and one, yes or no, black or white, mass or empty space.

Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory also sent messages to aliens containing illustrations of naked men and women. One of the slides, entitled "Illustration of the Human Shape," features a pixelated man and woman standing next to each other with only a few clothes visible.

"This information is part of the basic expectation of any message to ETI as it allows an introduction to our appearance, details of a particular ETI that will no doubt be of interest to us, and is relevant if further exchanges are made, or we physically meet someday," said the scientists, citing a CNN International report.

In other words, aliens may want to see what humans look like, just as we want to know if they match up with the insect-eyed green extraterrestrials of sci-fi fame. The BITG team believes they have taken a big step.

"The design motivation was to convey as much information as possible about our society and the human species in a minimal amount of messages," Jiang said.

"With the improvement of digital technology, we can do much better than (the Arecibo message) in 1974," he continued.

The message concludes with an invitation for extraterrestrials to respond using their own radio telescope equipment.

If the BITG project is realized, this will not be the first time NASA has sent nude photos into space. In the 1970s, placards carried aboard the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft featured illustrations of naked human forms.