Gort!

Paul Davies has a fanciful article in this week's New Scientist about looking for an alien message in highly conserved sequences of non-coding DNA. "...it could tell us how to download the entire contents of Encyclopaedia Galactica by conventional radio or optical techniques" (p. 31). He suggests looking for prime numbers, long strings of the same nucleotides, or two-dimensional objects (like the circle at the end of Contact). Klaatu, barata nikto!