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Father-Daughter Duo Won the Race to Decode an Extraterrestrial Message–Sent from Mars to Test Humanity

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A Sign in Space project was organized by the science research nonprofit Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ( SETI ) in partnership with the European Space Agency .

It took 10 days for a community of 5,000 citizen scientists on Discord to extract the signal from the raw data of the radio signal.

Ken and Keli Chaffin cracked the code by following their intuition and running simulations for hours and days on end, trying to assemble the message into all kinds of different forms.

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