What happened: NASA is hoping that sending nudes will finally entice aliens to contact them. The agency intends to send photographs of naked people into space. However, the images are not as sinister as they appear; they are simply basic anatomical sketches of a man and a woman. They’re even waving to make humans appear friendly to the rest of the galaxy. Details: The images were revealed in a study conducted as part of NASA’s ‘Beacon in the Galaxy’ project, which aims to contact ‘extraterrestrial intelligence.’ The scientists intend to send binary code into space that depicts DNA, basic math, and the location of the Earth, as well as illustrations of naked humans. Previously: This isn’t the first time NASA has used nudes to try to make contact. In the early 1970s, plaques depicting a naked man and woman were attached to two spacecraft in case they were intercepted by aliens as they left the solar system.