Talk:Arecibo reply

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[edit] Notability

  • Several independant notable sources have been cited for this stub.
  • This article was red-linked from Arecibo message, prompting a requested article
  • Performing a web search or image search returns numerous discussions.

Whilst I understand not every crop circle warrants a Wikipedia article, this one gained a lot of worldwide media attention back in 2001. If more notability is required please let me know. --Bren talk 06:22, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Good enough for me. I'll removed my Speedy Tag right now. Thank you. SuperDT 06:26, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] (Human)

"As with all crop circles, the origin of the Arecibo reply is highly debated. Professional (human) crop circle designers have not replicated the image at this stage."

That implies it wasn't made by humans in the first place. Needs a real cleanup, but I don't know much about it.

Abscence of evidence is not evidence of abscence. Just because humans have not replicated it yet, does not mean aliens/fairies/whatever have made it. Also, your change would become NPOV. SuperDT 00:28, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Added info

Added some more raw info for someone to clean up and integrate into the original stub. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.36.83.250 (talk)

Thanks for adding the info. A quick question though; did you write this yourself or did you copy-paste from a website? --Breno talk 02:31, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, yes this list was created by my friend and I who were creating a project documenting certain cases of suspected contact with aliens. I apologize for just dumping it at the end (with some repeated info) but I'm very bad at wiki formating. I thought some of the specifics might be interesting though, and if someone could splice it in with what's already there this article would be more in depth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.36.83.250 (talk)
Ok great I did a quick wikify of the new text and added in an image to help explain things. I assumed the last para you were referring to distances in feet, but please correct if I'm wrong. --Breno talk 05:13, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Humour?

Am I the only person who looks at this "Crop circle" and sees a very well-constructed and extremely funny prank?

No, you're not alone.

81.158.106.64 (talk) 23:12, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

When the information gets translated, and you come to the part of the dimension of the alien, you get a problem: the erecibo message relates its "dimension of a human" to the wavelenth. when you translate the answer, you have to take the size of a pixel as basis - which makes them gigantic.

Additionally, why should anybody who can manipulate this huge areal of crop - why should theay stick to this simple way of comunication? they could leave more details, or even objects! --84.159.212.48 (talk) 00:09, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Haven´t you seen "Signs"? It´s all gods plan you filthy skeptic.--Threedots dead (talk) 13:49, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Measurements

"The Arecibo message had a depiction of the telescope that sent the message with an indicated size of 2,430 feet. The crop formation had a depiction of something else with a size of 6,748 feet."

The first measurement conflicts with what is stated at Arecibo message and Arecibo Observatory; the units were wavelengths of 126 mm, not feet. I suspect the second measurement is similarly erroneous. --Peristarkawan (talk) 06:24, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Upper right image also in German wikipedia?

Hello. Is it possible to implent the upper right image of the “arecibo reply” also in the German wikipedia article? I would be grateful. That's the specific weblink: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo-Botschaft#Antwort_auf_das_Signal_.28.3F.29 --85.179.106.180 (talk) 20:50, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

The German article de:Arecibo-Botschaft is actually about the Arecibo message, not the Reply. The diagram is already used in the English version of that article, and saved in Commons at Image:Arecibo message.svg. --Breno talk 06:16, 4 January 2008 (UTC)