An informed release on the recent disclosure by authorized sources of a scientific project, MIAB, designed to detect and collect data from outer space.
April 1, 2004 (Press Release) --
For the past three years American and British scientists have been working on the collection of information sent from outer space. Yes, entire reports depicting societies, cultures and the phenomena of life elsewhere in the universe are being continuously collated and deciphered, even as you read this. While details remain restricted in this report, I hope you find some illumination from the facts I am privileged to offer you.
Information scientists at MIT have been working on the collection of Photonic Data Streams, PDS, a sophisticated form of Morse code embedded in beams of natural light energy. These trans-galactic streams of data riding in sunlight are transmitted not from one source, but come from many different realms throughout the universe. The implications of this, to say the very least, are staggering.
Project MIAB, message in a bottle, originated in spring 2002, when a fortuitous accident led to the detection of data streams. Scientists and engineers from MIT, NASA and Cambridge worked together for months to equip a satellite, DRS-1, with instrumentation which could detect and download Photonic Data Streams. There are now several satellites up and running and the program is likely to continue.
Data streams are literally ‘piggy-backed’ in a beam of light energy; each Photonic Data Stream, or PDS, is structured as a cyclic repetition. Each cycle consists of a codex, the message and a beacon, all delivered in milliseconds. To enhance the possibility of detection, a PDS travelling at light speed, is repeated, sometimes for a few minutes but they can persist for days. The codex, a data unit described as “a cross between an encyclopaedia and a web browser,” enables academics and scientists to decipher and translate the message. This exciting exercise has been tempered by its’ very complexity. Over the last two years, a total of 89 separate messages were collected and of these a mere 13 have been comprehensively deciphered. Interpreting the varied and complex codices, accompanying the messages from out there, is a skill people down here, are only just beginning to learn. So, while there are still huge challenges of structural semantics and lexical conundrums to ponder, it does seem that planet earth has logged onto the Universal Internet.
Earthlings can now access the bountiful histories of life on other worlds. This new informational era will also enable humankind to cast out our own message in a bottle. What gems of wisdom should we pass on to the glittering children of the future? The poetic and judicious tone of the MIAB project material I have read, bristles with a shared commonality I could never have imagined. Simply put, the challenges of life are not the same everywhere; it is vital to be aware of the differences, no matter how small they may be. I believe the implicit message of this new medium is that time and space need not be a barrier, when the message is the medium - to learn, understand and share, in the mutual gifts so deftly spun in rays of sunlight
Information scientists at MIT have been working on the collection of Photonic Data Streams, PDS, a sophisticated form of Morse code embedded in beams of natural light energy. These trans-galactic streams of data riding in sunlight are transmitted not from one source, but come from many different realms throughout the universe. The implications of this, to say the very least, are staggering.
Project MIAB, message in a bottle, originated in spring 2002, when a fortuitous accident led to the detection of data streams. Scientists and engineers from MIT, NASA and Cambridge worked together for months to equip a satellite, DRS-1, with instrumentation which could detect and download Photonic Data Streams. There are now several satellites up and running and the program is likely to continue.
Data streams are literally ‘piggy-backed’ in a beam of light energy; each Photonic Data Stream, or PDS, is structured as a cyclic repetition. Each cycle consists of a codex, the message and a beacon, all delivered in milliseconds. To enhance the possibility of detection, a PDS travelling at light speed, is repeated, sometimes for a few minutes but they can persist for days. The codex, a data unit described as “a cross between an encyclopaedia and a web browser,” enables academics and scientists to decipher and translate the message. This exciting exercise has been tempered by its’ very complexity. Over the last two years, a total of 89 separate messages were collected and of these a mere 13 have been comprehensively deciphered. Interpreting the varied and complex codices, accompanying the messages from out there, is a skill people down here, are only just beginning to learn. So, while there are still huge challenges of structural semantics and lexical conundrums to ponder, it does seem that planet earth has logged onto the Universal Internet.
Earthlings can now access the bountiful histories of life on other worlds. This new informational era will also enable humankind to cast out our own message in a bottle. What gems of wisdom should we pass on to the glittering children of the future? The poetic and judicious tone of the MIAB project material I have read, bristles with a shared commonality I could never have imagined. Simply put, the challenges of life are not the same everywhere; it is vital to be aware of the differences, no matter how small they may be. I believe the implicit message of this new medium is that time and space need not be a barrier, when the message is the medium - to learn, understand and share, in the mutual gifts so deftly spun in rays of sunlight
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