NSA cryptologist Callimahos on communicating with extraterrestrial intelligence

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NSA cryptologist Lambros Callimahos wrote an unclassified paper, published in the NSA Technical Journal in 1966, on how humans might exchange messages with an alien civilization, starting with simple beeps for numbers and building up to letters and math. It is about signal design, not UFO reports.

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  1. PressStephen Hawking alien warning: Could we talk to them? (opens in a new tab)Christian Science Monitor (Peter Grier) / 2010-04-30

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