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by YuccaGloriosa
1119 days ago
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The idea that the ability to decode could be lost makes me me wonder what info you would need as a kind of Rosett Rosetta stone for a future or alien civilization. I'm thinking what would you have on a wall of stone? Would it be possible to represent the whole decode process with all options, and do it purely pictorially? |
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See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Call which points to https://www.plover.com/misc/Dumas-Dutil/messages.pdf . Read annex B of that message.
We spent a night decoding it with minimal hints, which was reasonably easy. Basically, page 1 defines numbers as dots, binary and their own symbol set. Then they define math operations. This allows them to describe some physical and chemical relations, from which the metric system is derived. This allows them to create descriptions of physical thing which, combined with some crude graphics, let them tell about our home planet.
If that's possible, explaining qr codes should also be possible