Alien / Prometheus (Arecibo) signal

Where in Prometheus do you mean?

I watched the video, and at 0:03 you see the message, right? I'd be intrigued that it's part of the film, but I think it's just something made by a fan or used to generate interest assuming it's only part of the trailers/ teasers officially released. Arecibo is a famous message sent one time into space in 1974. Look it up online, under Arecibo message. It was a demonstration of new technological capabilities at the time, more than a means to make contact with alien civilizations, but they included in the message some big information about humans, DNA, Earth, and some math, and it was aimed at a dense star cluster app. 25,000 ly away. I read this on wikipedia. Including it in this film is maybe like saying someone did hear "it", but they wouldn't send to us "another Arecibo message". In other words, it's not a type of message, but only the name of a particular one.

It would also bear on this discussion that the dense star cluster the Arecibo was aimed at is something else, and far bigger and farther away than LV 223 and the system the scientists found depicted in ancient drawings. They might say that LV 223 was "on the way there", and at app. 32 ly away, they might have have received that message in 1990!

Sorry, I meant 2006. I was thinking of the speed of Prometheus, which I recently calculated when replying to another post, at 16.35x the speed of light.

Here another one from captain Janek more visual and clear: [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGRZSaET-4o&feature=relmfu[/url] Transmission start up / calybrate frequency 3 / 1984 / Arecibo message frequency 1 / Special shapes frequency 4 / Language frequency 2 1984 was the year when SETI Institute was formed. I do not know what to think, everything is very ambiguous. Note that the Nostromo's computer was programmed to intercept a signal of intelligent life in the same quadrant from the other LV moon. At least it fits. [i]*link fix by Feebs*[/i]

@Mateo: It is intriguing. It looks like Janek was interviewed to provide an account of who was on the Prometheus. I think the company must have been interviewing him, but because he is smoking a cigar it looks like he doesn't take it very seriously. Some sort of "last words" before embarking on the mission, which would be admittedly dangerous. Some were kept in the dark about the mission because they would say no it if they knew what it was about, and it takes two years each way.