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> How is the data encoded?

Well, any contemporary and well-understood encoding would work very well.

Perhaps the presence of such an object in the sky, visible to anyone, would automatically preserve knowledge of the encoding (people have always been interested in the stars). So if the encoding was US-ASCII in Cockney English, knowledge of cockney rhyming slang might well be conserved (at least among some "priesthoods") for hundreds or thousands of years.

$DEITY, I hope people don't start engraving their tweets on huge rolls of tinfoil, and having them unfurled by Bezos in upper orbit.



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