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OCR: FACT FILE IN 1974, A MESSAGE was transmitted .................................. from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico to the globular cluster M 13. The message consists of 1,679 binary, or on-off, commands. The message contains information about our solar system, the appearance of human beings, and the structure of DNA (the chemical that forms the genetic code in all living cells). It will not reach M 13 until about the year 30 000.