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 $\pi$ 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: [[lab-notes/2026-04-13-Sagans-Contact-Gods-Signature-in-Pi-and-Dawkins-Scientific-View|A Very Interesting Story of Revelation in Carl Sagan’s Science Fiction Novel, Contact. shorts]]