Messaging Intelligent Life

Messaging Intelligent Life Paper details: The Messaging Intelligent Life project consists of two parts. 1. Construct an artifact to send to outer-space with the goal of contacting and eliciting a response from an intelligent life. 2. Write an approximately 700-word paper describing your artifact and your thinking behind its design. Artifact Design Parameters Your artifact should follow the design parameters listed below. ? This artifact must be sensorial (meaning it emits sound), tactile, emit an odor, and produce visual cues (static or dynamic, text or moving images, etc.), or it may include a combination of these features. ? The artifact must be portable and weigh less than five pounds. ? The artifact must address how to establish communication as well as deliver a message. o Note: Aliens don’t speak English. Avoid using a language or means of communication that involve an established knowledge of a language. ? The artifact does not have to be functional. Paper Guidelines Your paper should elaborate on: ? Identification of the assumptions you made about the E.T. and its physiology in order to receive your artifact. ? A description of the message to deliver and how this message is expressed to the E.T. ? A description of the decisions you made on the design of the artifact, providing reasoning behind your choices. ? Discussion of any alternative design choices you considered and why these were ruled out. Pictures or a video must be submitted with artifact.