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== Real Life ==

* Space probes (like Pioneer 10) we sent out of the Solar System usually contain this in some form. <ref>And a star map telling them [[We Come in Peace, Shoot to Kill|where we are]]. [[Naked People Are Funny|And naked people]]. (That last one is presumably to show what humans actually look like. [[It Makes Sense in Context]] -- otherwise the aliens might assume that the probe itself is the intelligent life!</ref>

* [[wikipedia:Lincos (language)|Lincos]] is one possible example of ''how'' to extend the message into actual communication, building up to a complete language from only the natural numbers (fiction, being written by [[Writers Cannot Do Math|writers]], usually skips this bit).