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A group of scientists from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory believes that it is necessary to send a new message to representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations. This new message, called “Beacon in the Galaxy,” will be the “heir” of a radio signal that was sent back in 1974 from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Scientists from NASA have encrypted the following information in a new message for extraterrestrial intelligence: Information about the biochemical composition of life on Earth. This information includes an image of the four building blocks of DNA – adenosine, cytidine, guanosine and thymidine. A timeline that starts...