Humans Are About to Send Mixed Messages to Space

The woke messages may incur the wrath of the aliens.

Space organizations will soon send binary-encoded messages to space from radio telescopes, hoping they eventually reach intelligent aliens. A NASA-led team of scientists is sending the right message to the wrong place. A group called Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) is sending the wrong message to the right place. Their overt purpose is to transmit interstellar messages to extraterrestrial civilizations, but their immediate audience is earthlings.
The NASA team's message is called "Beacon in the Galaxy." It contains objective facts about nature’s wonder, avoiding human values and cultural creeds that may annoy or confuse aliens. Rather than presumptuously virtue-signaling on behalf of humankind, "Beacon in the Galaxy" focuses on scientific precepts, some with universal application, including:

Our binary and decimal systems
Prime numbers, including the largest prime number
Mathematical operations, exponential operations, and algebra
Particle physics
The most common elements (hydrogen, helium, carbon, etc.)
DNA structures
Human forms
Our solar system’s position using globular clusters
Depiction of the solar system pointing out Earth
Composition and characteristics of earth, map of earth
An invitation to return a reply

It’s notable that the human forms are binary. The message includes a description of a man and a woman, not some “fluid” hermaphrodite. The man is not pregnant. The concern is that it includes our location and an invitation to reply. According to Stephen Hawking, this may not be a good idea because aliens might not be friendly.
No matter their disposition, the would-be recipients of the NASA message are so far away — a star cluster thousands of light-years towards the center of our galaxy — that by the time they decide to ravage us and confiscate our resources, we should be a lot more advanced and capable of sophisticated defensive shields. Presuming we’re even still here, that is, and can avoid the Great Filter that tends to limit intelli...