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By Nora Dunn, Wise Bread

In 1974 Carl Sagan Sent This Message Into Space: In 2001 We Received This Response.

In 1974, a broadcast (known as the “Arecibo” message) put together by Carl Sagan and colleagues was sent into space via radio waves at a special ceremony to celebrate the remodelling of the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. It was the most powerful broadcast ever deliberately beamed out into space. The message was directed at a star cluster sitting approximately 25,000 light years away, and consisted of a pictorial message.

The radio signal depicted our planet’s location in our solar system, the core principles of our math and science, and the NASA antenna used to transmit the signal, in the hopes that it would be interpreted by an extraterrestrial intelligence. The message also included details about human beings, such as our physical appearance and DNA code. The signal was a million times stronger than the typical TV transmission. You can see the message in the cover photo (above),

21 years later in 2001, the crop circle phenomenon gained some well deserved attention when a pattern in the form of a response to the 1974 broadcast appeared right next to Britain’s largest telescope, the Chilbolton, and observatory, home to the world’s largest fully steerable meteorological radar. It’s one of the most amazing crop circles to ever appear, regardless of whether you believe it was done by human beings or an extraterrestrial intelligence….

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/06/09/in-1974-carl-sagan-sent-this-message-into-space-in-2001-we-received-this-response/

10 ways to grow your social media followers

The competition to gain followers on social has never been fiercer as the majority of brands adopt social media as a fundamental part of their digital strategy. With social metrics used increasingly to gauge the value of a brand it’s vital that you have an active audience.

When and when not to post on your blog.

Business or personal, if you are running a blog you obviously want more and more people to visit and read your blog posts. And in an age where internet is so populated, it is actually rocket science to standout and get potential readers to the blog. If you are failing in that mission, there may be more than one reasons to the problem. But one of the most common and lesser known problem is, not considering the time. 

We Ripped These Pictures Of Celebrities In Half So Now It Looks Like They’re Divorced 

Celebrity breakups can be heartbreaking, but they’re also easy to write about and guaranteed to get a decent number of pageviews. Fortunately for sites like ours, they’re often as easy as just taking a photo of a celebrity couple and tearing it in half to make it look like they got divorced!

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8 Email Marketing Mistakes To Avoid

With over 100 billion emails sent daily there’s never been a more important to make sure you get your email marketing right and know what not to get wrong.