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Messages for alien minds

Recorded year1972

Carl Sagan and Frank Drake's Pioneer plaque (1972) and Arecibo radio message (1974) are designed to be read by any intelligence that finds them.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.