Shouting at Stars: A History of Interstellar Messages

Since the early 1970s, humanity has sent messages beyond the Solar System in the hopes of contacting another civilization. Some were physically attached to interstellar spacecraft, while others were beamed into space in the form of radio signals. This video provides a detailed chronology of almost all of these messages with a focus on their meaning and improbability of reception. 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 https://www.lemmi.no/p/shouting-at-stars 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐧 https://www.patreon.com/lemmino 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞 https://www.youtube.com/c/lemmino/join 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lemmi.no https://www.reddit.com/r/lemmino https://www.discord.gg/lemmino 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:08 Pioneer Plaques 00:15:33 Arecibo Message 00:26:36 The Golden Records 00:41:47 Message to Altair 00:48:18 Poetica Vaginal 00:54:46 NASDA Space Camp Messages 00:57:31 Cosmic Call I 01:11:07 The Teenage Message 01:18:40 Cosmic Call II 01:25:45 New Horizons 01:32:19 Across the Universe 01:34:08 Doritos Broadcast Project 01:35:24 A Message From Earth 01:38:25 Hello From Earth 01:42:12 RuBisCO Stars Message 01:49:06 The Wow! Reply 01:56:05 Lone Signal 01:59:28 JAXA Space Camp Messages 02:01:37 A Simple Response to an Elemental Message 02:04:35 Sónar Calling GJ273b 02:08:46 Stephen Hawking's Memorial Broadcast 02:10:23 The Transmission Debate