Voyager Interstellar Record |
Voyager Interstellar Record |
 Dec 1 2005, 02:52 PM
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Voyager - A message from Earth
Saturday 19 November 2005 Summary Jon Lomberg is an artist who could be called portrait painter to the cosmos. He illustrated most of Carl Sagan's books and articles and his paintings and multi-media presentations of astronomy have made him well known around the world. He's talking about the message he designed which was sent on Voyager II from the people of Earth to whoever might hear it in space. Program Transcript: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/stories/s1505986.htm -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Nov 27 2017, 11:44 PM
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 Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
With the recent articles on the Voyager record, I took a look at the some of the pictures again and was struck by something odd.
Inner solar system picture Outer solar system picture On the 3rd line is the masses of the planets, relative to Earth. Everything looks fine, but when we get to Pluto it gets wonky. The mass of Pluto has changed over time, with it being 1/10 Me and changing to 1/100 Me right around the Voyager launch time, so either of those numbers should be there, but it looks like they used 9/10 Me? The images match the JPL versions at Voyager - Images on the Golden Record -------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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ljk4-1 Voyager Interstellar Record Dec 1 2005, 02:52 PM
fredk And Pluto's semimajor axis is out by a factor ... Nov 28 2017, 01:12 AM Phil Stooke " The mass of Pluto has changed over time, wi... Nov 28 2017, 07:19 AM
PaulH51 QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Nov 28 2017, 03:19 P... Nov 28 2017, 11:08 AM Floyd Link broken Nov 28 2017, 12:56 PM fredk That is a classic. They fit mass estimates to a c... Nov 28 2017, 03:50 PM djellison I can prove, with data, that by the mid 2030s - th... Nov 28 2017, 05:58 PM hendric Ah, OK, I was thinking if they were known mistakes... Nov 28 2017, 08:45 PM sittingduck Hello,
Does anyone know where I can find specific... Nov 11 2018, 10:20 PM |
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