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- HunterTV, on 10/12/2007, -0/+45"Here's how we evolved, here's a picture of how fragile we are and how pathetically
underdeveloped our technology is. Oh, and here's a map to our doorstep."
I really hope advanced extra solar lifeforms are benevolent, or we are truly *****. - ImYourRealDad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33"I’ll Take a Rusty Nail and Scratch Your Initials on My Arm and I’ll Show You How to Sneak Up on the Roof of the Drugstore"
What the ***** does that have to do with anything? - Shad0wSP, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27pic #6:
im in ur supermarketz samplin ur foodz - Supernova36, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25I'm glad you clarified that an article called "Amazing: The Pictures Taken on Voyager 1 and 2" contained "[PICTURES]"..
- not_michael, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Don't worry, they're not even out of the solar system yet, by the time they reach another star, all of us will be long since dead, and the chances of the crafts encountering another life form advanced enough to decipher the discs is slim to none, and even if that happens, they have to travel back.
So instead of thinking of it as a "Hey, you guys should com visit us" invitation think of it as a "Hey, we exist(ed) and you are not alone in the universe" message. - chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21I hope they have eyes that can see in our spectrum...otherwise all of it is useless.
- Hipple, on 10/12/2007, -9/+24I hope they use the metric system, because otherwise a lot of that information is going to be ***** useless
- TheG2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/sceneearth.html
Are you serious? Thats the stuff we sent?
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/images/image082.gif
The guy is drinking out of a COFFEE POT! Who does that? - synthesist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13The RIAA is going to sue the aliens for stealing a copy of "Johnny B. Goode".
- cyphin6, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Truly a humbling thing to realize and to know that one day a civilization might one day come upon the only remaining records of the existence of the human race, nothing else is more humbling than that.
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Hope the aliens aren't as confused as I am.
- TheG2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Actually it left the solar system about 3 years ago now (November 2004), but your right, it'll take 40,000 years until it reaches another star.
- dunezone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
And interesting enough there was controversy over the Pioneer Plaque including putting naked humans on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque#Criticism - orangestickman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9It's from a Tom Waits' song, but I don't know why it's the title of the story.
- Tordenflesk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The [pictures] tab is kinda pointless isn't it?
Someone call the department of redundancy-department - Javlington, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Truly well said mate.
- SmashSource, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7its cause she's not a lady and thats not a supermarket
- Satertek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7So then they're pictures of the pictures? I'd rather have the originals.
- navarroj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@Hipple: They included images trying to explain basic maths (numbers) and physical units.
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/images/image003.gif
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/images/image004.gif - consoneo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Well, I was unable to view the photos at the posted links... including duggmirror.
Managed to stumble across http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/sceneearth.html for a few of the pictures from the Voyagers. - hankidic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7sweet! everything an alien would need to know to find us and whipe us out!
- jsdratm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The lady in the supermarket looks scary :(
- elbergel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4golden record or not, wouldnt the very fact that a spacecraft crashed onto their planet signal that they are not alone in the universe?
- mrfreeziexp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Does anyone have a working mirror?
- outhouseinput, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Whoever got their initials gouged into the guy's arm is going to have to go into the drugstore and get him some tetanus meds.
- derijk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Mirror with all pictures and sounds: http://goldenrecord.org/
- whiledo, on 03/25/2009, -0/+3Sadly, it appears the webserver is actually hosted on a Voyager probe.
- toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@Supernova36 (#6543351)
Pics or it didn't... oh never mind. - TheG2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Voyager 1 was launched in 1977, passed the orbit of Pluto in 1990, and left the solar system (in the sense of passing the termination shock) in November 2004. It is now in empty space."
So I'm not sure that really helps but its more precise. - AceTracer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think it would've been a little easier if they'd just said "Please come and conquer our planet, here's how..."
- capran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1From what I recall hearing about the probes a long time ago, the course they're on won't take them anywhere close to any star systems. So even if technologically advanced extraterrestrials exist, they'd need to possess interstellar spaceships to capture one of our probes, that is if they could somehow detect them.
- alienex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that is really cool.
- cpuenvy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wonderful.
Here is where we are. This is what we know so far. This is how we are built. This is how our babies are formed.
Now, any unscrupulous beings can come and do anything they wish to us. They will know more about us when they get here then we know about them.
Thank you, ***** idiot feel good scientists! - Drecoll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Actually it left the solar system about 3 years ago now (November 2004), but your right, it'll take 40,000 years until it reaches another star."
I'm not sure if it is still considered our solar system, but they haven't left our solar wind yet, so they aren't in interstellar space.
"I hope they have eyes that can see in our spectrum...otherwise all of it is useless."
Actually they have inscribed on the golden record an explanation of how fast the record should be played as well as in what spectrum, here is a link, http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/images/VgrCover.jpg - kaffein, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I remember seeing these back in 2003 or something.
Here is the solar location on a gold disc:
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q81/shuutobi/VoyagerCover.gif
edit: oops, looks like I was beat to it. - ig33k010011, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1if aliens are so advanced that they can read this coming from lightyears away and we want them to come check out what we have done, isn't it kinda like my dog leaving me a note saying, "hey, come outside and check out the hole i dug". ??
- attention, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://goldenrecord.org/ is a mirror (mentioned origionally below)
- Wacer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I think aliens find this and see the good prices of the products behind her, there will be an invasion from them to go shopping.
/joke - Drecoll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Thank you, ***** idiot feel good scientists!"
Actually by the time this reaches the star it is headed to (40,000 years), we will either be dead, or if we are not we will be smart enough to know whether or not there are these intelligent aliens living so close to our solar system. So I really don't think you should worry about those idiot scientists getting you killed by any aliens. - SmashSource, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3lmao
- Septuris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dug for Upright Citizens Brigade reference.
- fight4yourright, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0She should have washed those grapes first....no telling who handled them before...
- Drecoll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It really isn't a matter of it serving a purpose, its the fact that this is the farthest man made object out there, why not write stuff on it instead of them just finding this and being like "What the *****? Why would this ever be floating in our galaxy?" And it doesn't necessarily have to be telling the aliens where we are or what we have done, but as to inform them that there is intelligence out there. Think of it this way, if there were aliens out there as smart as us, would you prefer us to not know of them, or for them to send some crazy device like this for us to find?
Either way, it is quite pointless. People mention that we will be long gone, but what about before we are long gone? We aren't going to stay on level with the rockets that propelled the Voyagers, we will make faster and faster ones. So instead of these voyagers ever reaching the star they are heading to, (I can only assume proxima centauri because that is the next closest star to us) we will most likely want to send something else to that star, with faster rockets, sometime before we are "long gone." That is why I find these records pointless, that and the fact that there is the slim to nothing chance that these will end up somewhere with life nearby which NASA knows.
That being said, I would still use my first paragraph to defend putting a golden record on any new spacecraft launched, because we might as well have these crazy things flying around the universe, I mean how amazing would it be for us to find some spacecraft floating in our solar system with a record like this? - cr1t, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yes I think we should have at least put in a picture of an A-Bomb going pop.
At least by the time this probe gets any where we will be long gone, so it's kinda like a time capsual. any body know where they are headed. - TehSwat, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5"I’ll Take a Rusty Nail and Scratch Your Initials on My Arm and I’ll Show You How to Sneak Up on the Roof of the Drugstore"
It's like emo burglars :S - kenshin159, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1www.duggmirror.com
- ryodoan, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2http://www.duggmirror.com ?
- fireal, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1dam you geeks site's doesn't work anymore :)
- ZippidyDoo, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2no 7of9?
- Seruphim, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1L2speak English, noob
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