Sleeping Rosetta Spacecraft Wakes Up and Sends Alien-like Message

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Last January 20, a European space probe awoke from deep sleep to prepare for an unprecedented rendezvous with a comet to climax its ten-year voyage through the solar system.

The Rosetta spacecraft, which has been in hibernation for two and a half years, sent its first signal two days ago, amid the cheering personnel at the European Space Agency. The spacecraft, emerged from it deep slumber after preparing by switching on its heaters to warm itself after years of cold temperatures in deep space.

After several hours, Rosetta finally sent its signal, as scientists and personnel cheer, ending the long hours of anxiety.

“We got confirmation!” Antonio Aca, Rosetta’s chief spacecraft controller, exclaimed. “We are 100% online”

The initial signal was received by NASA’s Deep Space Network at 1:18 p.m. ET (1818 GMT) and relayed to ESA’s Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany, erupting in applause and cheers as the signal was confirmed.

However, hours of jubilation and celebration turned into excitement and curiosity this morning, when an unexpected signal was received from the probe. The signal was received from the single-side band of the transmission and was cryptic in the beginning. Scientists could not figure it out at first, but a senior communications specialist visiting from NASA was able to amplify the signal to make it audible to the entire control room.

The signal seemed like a series of long and short bursts of static, but after filtering the signal, it became apparent that it was artificial in nature, and that it was definitely sent by an intelligent life form.

The long and short bursts where relayed to the European Space Agency’s Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany, as a series of dots and dashes, similar to Morse code, and as follows:

 -.-.
- - -
-.
--.
.-.
.-
-
..-
.-..
.-
-
..
---
-.
...

The European Space Agency’s Space Operations Center posted a message on their Twitter account, saying they will try to decipher the message, but also have asked the public for help.

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  • btotanes

    Congratulations!

  • paty

    Congratulations

  • Milos Valenta

    The 2nd and the 13th line are both the same ” word” yet initially emphasised.

  • molonlabe420

    DNA chain

  • tkishot1

    It says CONGRATULATIONS

  • teesaw

    seriously? 2/4 people don’t know what morse code is? Is it the year 2200?

    • duke

      what a joke, seriosly, this a bunch of crap, is morse code, CONGRATULATIONS , , wtf

  • Peter Davidson

    It’s a Littering Citation.

    Please retrieve your debris (assume refers to Rosetta spacecraft) from this transit corridor within 28 jörð rotations (probably means 28 days) or we will impound said debris. Fine issued forfeiture of 25 Auðumbla (I think this means 25 cows) to be collected immediately (Might explain the dead cows washed up on the Swedish beach recently)

  • Jason Anthony Bevilacqua

    It’s says stop wasting your tax payers money on stupid shit. Human morons, can’t even get past your Earth’s moon.

    • ADN_Must_Come_Clean

      I always love comments that if say a satellite in orbit fails, the money was wasted. The money never left the Earth. The money didn’t blow up with the failure. The money used in space exploration is part of the flow of dollars in the monetary system. Money never disappears with space exploration, it all stays on the Earth. Is it really that hard to comprehend this little technicality about “wasting” money?

      • Justin Martin

        Your a fool, money has no value, you can have tons of money and nothing to buy because of it!

        Haven’t you heard of inflation?

        I have trillions of Zimbabwe Dollars, they had all those dollars, all that money, but cannot buy a thing with it.

        When you spend money on something and then destroy it, you ARE destroying REAL wealth. Its called the broken window fallacy to think otherwise.

        Otherwise war would be a wonderful stimulus.

        • Macra

          Justin: Your war analogy isn’t very accurate.. Seeing as how if it was the USA would have already crumbled into the sea, because war is their number one stimulus.. Er.. Well, the spoils of war anyway.

      • Jason Anthony Bevilacqua

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  • Loki

    spacecraft says : ” noooo”

  • Darryl Kinslow

    Copy and paste into a Morse code translator, delete the spaces between the 3 dashes. CONGRATULATIONS

  • Victoria Clark

    I believe the three long lines might be a pause in a sentence. It is quite interesting and I can hardly wait to find out more truthful details about it.

    • Mike Crowder

      The stupid… it hurts….

  • Captain Feather

    “CONGRATULATIONS ?” What’s the last transmission like?

  • celio

    already tried morse code?

  • Jennifer Ranin

    uhmm… it’s a spoof article folks. Doesn’t anyone get it? it’s a pat on the back for the ESA for a successful mission so far… congratulations.

    • Thom Arvin

      so… you just bounce around telling people these are fake huh? weirdo

      • quilljohnson

        or pointing out to retards like you the fact that it’s fake rather than you wasting your time and taking a spoof seriously.

        • Thom Arvin

          I don’t think you understand what just happened… how am I wasting my time reading fake news on purpose? when people are told it’s fake the comments are less funny..what else is the point of reading this stuff if morons like you feel like they have to announce its satirical in every comment thread because you wanna help or something

          • Jason Anthony Bevilacqua

            @Thom Arvin You don’t speak for the people. If you want to amuse yourself with news that isn’t true, go right ahead and get your rise out of people who don’t know it’s fake. But don’t try and speak for everyone reading. I came to this article thinking it was interesting, but once I found out it was fake, I lost interest and felt like I had wasted my time. I’ll speak for myself, truth or real current events are a lot more interesting than this brain trash fake news.

          • Thom Arvin

            leaving lengthy comments telling me to do as i please and insuring me that you plan to do the same. glad you don’t like wasting your time….

          • Guest

            ^sheep
            “Am I right?”

          • Thom Arvin

            Bleat

  • cornolio

    I came to see a M.I.B. comment, I was dissapointed

  • bfurphy

    The day NASA scientists need to turn to the public for help in deciphering a code is the day those scientists announce their uselessness.

    • Skye Seaforth

      Exactly!

    • Josh Thompson

      Yes, because NASA is expected to know everything about everything, ever.

      Yeah… no. This is perfectly understandable. Code-breaking is a very unique skill, and this gets them some free press and ignites some imaginations and such.

      • bfurphy

        You contradict yourself in addition to making assumptions that are absolutely absurd. Yes, code-breaking is a VERY unique skill and those that have the skill most-likely already work for the government, and yes, any request of the public to help NASA is nothing more than a publicity stunt seeking free press. Let me guess, you cracked the code Josh?! Wow! You’re so smart.

        • David Blatch

          Jeez, have a some anger issues.

        • quilljohnson

          he was being sarcastic bfurphy. Stop acting like a smartass. He has a point whether what you say is true or not.

  • Nathan Ketterer

    Congratulations

    • Frooble Rippers

      Damn., you beat me to it! 😉

  • Frooble Rippers

    Message reads: “Congratulations” 🙂

  • feedtherichtothepoor

    It says:

    If you like your satellite, you can keep your satellite ….

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