found this interesting link...
couple of cdn research students have worked up a lexicon of a possible method of communicating with an alien species using a binary text stream that -should- be decodable and understandable by a civilization of about equal with ours...
The homepage http://www3.sympatico.ca/stephane_dumas/CETI/
The article is here http://www.ddj.com/news/fullstory.cgi?id=5406
The binary is here http://www3.sympatico.ca/stephane_du...put_stream.txt
An explanation of the binary is here..http://www3.sympatico.ca/stephane_du...xique_1999.pdf
pretty cool stuff...but then i'm a big seti fan...2009 work units done for s@home...