09 June 2009

ET Phone Home

Interesting info about ETs phone home kit on SolderSmoke blog:

When Steven Spielberg was making ET, the producers contacted Bell Labs and asked for help in designing the rig that ET would use to phone home. A ham, Henry Feinberg, got the job. In the article, Henry wrote: "What Spielberg wanted was a beacon transmitter, something to say, 'Here I am, Come and get me!' I reasoned that three main parts wee needed for a basic beacon: a means of producing a message, a programmer to repeat the message, and a way of transmitting the signal into outer space."

Later, in describing the keying device, Henry wrote: " The surface of the saw blade was coated with several layers of spray paint, which served as insulation, preventing the bobby pins from contacting the metal blade. The message was programmed on the blade by carefully etching through the paint. "

1 comment:

  1. Hi,

    I'm very thankful for this. Probably I will publish this in the book that I've been working on for 32 long, long tiresome years. The question of copyright isn't at stake. It will bee sort of free commercial in a big mystery being disclosed. I could give you a hint, though: www.secretscript.nl

    As an intro it contanis all the clues to uncover the essence. In a way you are being sent now an encrypted message. It would take you a lot of effort, though, to decode it. You would be the first to succeed without further help.

    A lot of money has been spent to prepare the big disclosure, naked in the book itself...

    Thanks a lot for your blog, nice and to the point!

    The book is bridging trying to repair the present abyss of mankind, the disrupture of heart from head in present mankind. This is meant to be a little present for you. I sincerely hope you'll unwrap it.

    Kind regards with love,

    Anonymus

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