MIT artist-in-residence Joe Davis used the Arecibo radio telescope (part 2) to send a message to three stars in honor of the 35th anniversary of the famous Drake-Sagan transmission to M13 in 1974. Due to unforseen problems with the Arecibo hardware, he ended up using a hacked iPhone to send a coded version of the most abundant protein on Earth, called RuBisCo (ribulose– 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase).
No word from the stars yet, of course. And don’t expect this to appear in the App Store anytime soon, either.
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