• Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzM
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    16 days ago

    From Wikipedia:

    • white - encoding the numbers 1 to 10 in binary code
    • purple - 1, 6, 7, 8, 15. Atomic numbers of H, C, N, O, P; the five main elements of DNA.
    • green - some atomic formulas for DNA nucleotides
    • white and blue - average human height and Earth population back (4 billions)
    • red - human
    • yellow - Solar system, from Mercury to Pluto
    • purple, white, blue - the telescope sending the signal

    …it’s cute. But frankly, I don’t think even we humans would be able to re-decode it, if we lost the original meaning. There’s simply not enough context to do it.