Happy 31st anniversary of the Arecibo Message to M13!
It's only got 24,969 years left to reach globular star cluster Messier 13 - and then another 25,000 years for any response.
Of course the radio message will sweep over many other stars along the way, so...
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Nov99/Arecibo.message.ws.html
