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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

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

For me it's still amazing to see how NASA presented views of deep space by just focusing in onto a painting of the planet Jupiter or an artist impression of Pioneer near the planet Saturn
I especially like the 30 minutes NASA documentaries on Pioneer & Saturn... From time to time a DVD with both these is available via eBay ( http://stores.ebay.com/EARTHSTATION1-MULTIMEDIA )

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Message in a Bottle

by Jason Fry of the Wall Street Journal

Sending Messages Into Outer Space Has Changed Since Voyager's Day

January 23, 2006

http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print...2447848689.html

To quote:

"In all likelihood, space probes will be the only things of ours that endure after our species is gone and our planet utterly changed -- a few inert, pitted machines will be the sole clues that we ever existed, and the ancient messages they carry our only chance to explain who we were. It's vanishingly unlikely that any being will ever find the Pioneers, Voyagers or the New Horizons probe in the billion-odd years during which their messages will remain readable. But though imagining such a discovery borders on an act of faith, it's not impossible. And since it isn't, shouldn't the only trace of ourselves be something more substantive than an unbelievably ancient PR campaign? Don't we owe ourselves a final testament that's something more than space spam?"