megastructures
Large-scale, highly advanced engineering projects.
Detection and Signatures
- In Carl Sagan’s novel Contact, the character Ellie Arroway discovers that certain megastructures were signaled via messages embedded within transcendental numbers.
- The base 11 representation of contains a sequence of ones and zeros that, when properly aligned, produces a visual message regarding their existence.
2026 04 13 Patterns in pi in Contact
Source Notes
- 2026-04-13: A Very Interesting Story of Revelation in Carl Sagan’s Science Fiction Novel, Contact. shorts