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Voyager Interstellar Record
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post Dec 1 2005, 02:52 PM
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Voyager - A message from Earth

Saturday 19 November 2005

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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.

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http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/stories/s1505986.htm


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"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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post Jan 24 2006, 05:43 PM
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Well I prefer the Pioneer plaque ... Seeing the Voyager plaque I really needed some extra explanation about the signs on it, which are mostly directives how to play the 'record' ...
Superb initiative though by the late Dr Carl Sagan !
Talking about this, it remains 'strange' why the New Horizons didn't bare such a message, all beit some small electronic one ( simular to the names of Earthlings it carries ) ph34r.gif
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post Jan 26 2006, 05:12 AM
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Another good reason to have plaques and records on our space probes...
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"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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- ljk4-1   Voyager Interstellar Record   Dec 1 2005, 02:52 PM
- - PhilCo126   For me it's still amazing to see how NASA pres...   Dec 30 2005, 02:49 PM
|- - ljk4-1   Message in a Bottle by Jason Fry of the Wall Str...   Jan 24 2006, 05:22 PM
- - PhilCo126   Well I prefer the Pioneer plaque ... Seeing the Vo...   Jan 24 2006, 05:43 PM
|- - ljk4-1   Another good reason to have plaques and records on...   Jan 26 2006, 05:12 AM
|- - Jeff7   QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jan 26 2006, 12:12 AM)An...   Jan 27 2006, 01:42 AM
|- - AndyG   QUOTE (Jeff7 @ Jan 27 2006, 01:42 AM)4) A rac...   Jan 27 2006, 09:57 AM
|- - Chmee   5). A civilization of intelligent machines finds t...   Jan 27 2006, 03:31 PM
|- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (AndyG @ Jan 27 2006, 04:57 AM) More co...   Jan 27 2006, 04:25 PM
|- - ljk4-1   The Next Voyager Record: A Qatsi Perspective Essa...   Jan 28 2006, 04:09 AM
- - djellison   Such a response is equally likely from the plaque....   Jan 26 2006, 10:19 AM
|- - paxdan   <42> i seem to be having tremendous difficu...   Jan 26 2006, 11:12 AM
|- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 26 2006, 05:19 AM)Such...   Jan 26 2006, 02:01 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jan 26 2006, 02:01 PM)Pr...   Jan 26 2006, 02:33 PM
- - AstroJustin   Did voyager bring a record player along with it?   Sep 17 2017, 11:21 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (AstroJustin @ Sep 17 2017, 03:21 P...   Sep 18 2017, 01:47 AM
- - hendric   With the recent articles on the Voyager record, I ...   Nov 27 2017, 11:44 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
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- - 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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