Speaker 0:  alright. so i didn't know this, but, apparently, we've been getting signals from mars.

Speaker 1:  yeah. so this is cool. and the cool part about this, article is that a father daughter duo successfully decoded the signal that originated from mars. so apparently, this has been this is over years, multiple years. the decoded message doesn't confirm the existence of life, but provides insights into the martian environment and potentially the planet's geological history. so i like, there really wasn't much about it, but it's really cool because, apparently, they used a computation model known as cellular automation to decode the message. and so they process the sequence of ones and zeros through six thousand six hundred and twenty five transformations. and this is the cool part. they use the unity video game engine to do it.

Speaker 0:  wow. yeah. so you know, is, the message itself is a few kilobytes in size, but its content was only known by depaulis and two others a week after receiving a signal on earth. four hundred thousand people had downloaded in an effort to decipher the code with their own interpretation of the alien signal. the effort to understand aliens and ourselves is not over just yet. yeah. so you know? this is go ahead. go ahead. no. go ahead.

Speaker 1:  no. this is cool. it's great that there was a collaboration between a parent and a child making the discovery. so it shows, showcases the power of kind of intergenerational knowledge transfer, which is really, really cool. i like that part the best where it was a father daughter duo that figured this out, which is awesome.

Speaker 0:  yeah. so, you know, this turns out, just so everyone knows, that it wasn't an alien based signal. they decided that they would, send this signal and see who could decode it, and only a few people knew it. and, like we said, only four people on the planet knew what the message was. every over four hundred thousand people downloaded it and tried to crack it.

Speaker 1:  yeah.

Speaker 0:  yeah. so go ahead. no. it's, yeah, like i said, it's nice that it was a father, and daughter team. the large radio telescopes that, you know, serve as the ears to humanity, listen for fake whispers in the cosmos, and they're huge. right? these square kilometer arrays. like, just the fact that a square like, the word kilometers in the name gives you an idea of how big these things are. they allow for detection of exceptionally weak signals from deep space that would otherwise go, undetected. so these telescopes scan the sky, which is interesting, focusing on specific frequencies that are thought to be promising for extra extraterrestrial intelligence such as those near hydrogen lines, which is at fourteen twenty megahertz, apparently. the frequency is one of the cosmic silence where neutral celestial emissions are minimal, offering ideal channel for interstellar phone calls. so just wanna, you know, take a look at the other side of these things. i'm always fascinated. i've always been fascinated about the seti project. years and years ago, i had the little i don't know if you remember this. i'm an old man. there was an add on you could add on a windows pc that while your computer wasn't working, the seti thing would take cpu cycles to analyze the significant space. yeah. i used to have all my machines doing that because i thought it was cool. yeah. this is amazing. right? i the fact that they were able to do it, the fact that it was a father, and daughter team that we're doing these types of things and just setting it out there and letting the world, figure it out and finding new ways to use things, like using unity, like using these tools that scientists would never have done. yeah. i'm really fascinated by, you know, how the two work together, to figure this out.

Speaker 1:  yeah. yeah. it's, it's i'm curious what they're going to accomplish next. that's what i'm curious about. what are they gonna do next, this father daughter duo? so, hopefully, we find we come across another article.

Speaker 0:  yeah. and, you know, what a i didn't see the age, and i was just kinda glancing through this.

Speaker 1:  oh, yeah. i didn't notice the age.

Speaker 0:  yeah. so you know, my image shows, a young girl, but father a daughter could be any age or almost. right? yeah. so, yeah, the idea though is great so the article here on toronto star dot com delves into the tools and techniques of decoding signals from space and how these investigations differ from their deciphering in popular science fiction, and it talks about specifically what's happened here with this signal. the idea that we're doing these experiments, it reminds me did you watch stargate universe at all? no. so if you watch stargate universe, it's a common theme in many of these movies, many sci fi futuristic thing. the one, guy, he, solved the video game that no one else was able to solve. oh. and as soon as

Speaker 1:  was, the last starfighter.

Speaker 0:  well, that was a talent thing. this was more of a mathematical you go to different levels and solve mathematical equations. and as soon as you solve that equation, you know, the man in black show up at his door and say you're working for us now and haul him off. and he's, like, protesting until they beam him up onto a spaceship, and he's like, what? so you just start to see, you know, we taking the brightest minds when we do stuff like this and say this is just, you know, a honeypot for us to get the brightest minds and go hire them and bring them in to do these different things? because they're applying, again, all sorts of outside analysis towards what things we wouldn't have done. yeah. and i love that when they're doing these kinds of things, i'd be curious to see where they go next, this, father daughter team, if they're getting hired, if, if the daughter's really young, you know, she's set for life now with this thing. yeah.

Speaker 1:  that'll be interesting to see.

Speaker 0:  absolute.