If you want to have sex what receiving an alien message would be like , you are in luck . A team of artists and scientist used a ballistic capsule around Mars to send a complex message to Earth , simulating what analien messagewould be like . And now , it is up to everyone to decrypt it .

The project , A Sign In Space , was created by artist Daniela de Paulis . The message was send from the European Space Agency ’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter ( TGO ) on May 24 at 7 pm UTC , and take in 16 transactions later by the SETI Institute ’s Allen Telescope Array , the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope at the Green Bank Observatory , and the Medicina Radio Astronomical Station observatory .

The file cabinet from each scope have been upload to adedicated Filecoin serverthat allows them to be download from all over the world and to all of humanity . When you get to the filing cabinet , do not be surprised if they are not neat slight recording you could play on your phone . These are actually the bleak data filing cabinet from the observatories .

This might seem a mo demoralizing at first . There are ways to analyse the file , but they expect a morsel of know - how on electronic computer , GitHub , and put one across . There are instructions on how to do it , if you want to give it a go .

But it is important that they are shared like this . Detecting an alien message would be revolutionary for humanity and research suggests that full disclosure is thebest policyin a post - first - inter-group communication scenario .

People on theproject Discord serverare already working on it , so if interpret radio signal is not in your skillset , we are sure someone will have the signal in an easy - to - deal - with format very soon .

The squad behind the signal has stressed that they have created something that wo n’t be well decoded and that will require people from many different background to hail together to work out what the signaling is all about .

For more perceptiveness into the project , SETI ran a whole event while await for the signal , mouth to de Paulis , members of the receiving set scope squad , Exomars , as well as people who are just interested in getting involve .