{"id":1428,"date":"2017-01-19T20:42:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T20:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2017-01-21T23:04:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T23:04:33","slug":"jimmy-carters-note-placed-on-the-voyager-spacecraft-from-1977-and-the-relevant-discussion-from-reddit-it-is-pure-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/jimmy-carters-note-placed-on-the-voyager-spacecraft-from-1977-and-the-relevant-discussion-from-reddit-it-is-pure-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Carter’s note placed on the Voyager spacecraft from 1977 and the relevant discussion from Reddit. It is pure gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plus.. isn’t it nice when a President writes really dorky stuff?..
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Greetings in 55 languages and, also, Whale greetings.<\/p>\n

On second thought, not sure what they were thinking exactly with the Whale greetings, somewhere in there something sounds like someone is choking on a peanut. How are we sure it is not Dolphins or Mice running Earth?<\/p>\n

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“There are three times in a mans life where it is both acceptable and expected to cry: the birth of his child, the death of a loved one, and any time he thinks about voyager.”<\/p>\n

-Soren Bowie<\/p>\n

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I don’t get it. Please explain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n

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The Voyager spacecraft is a message in a bottle from the entire planet. The intent of the quote is that the power of potential should be overwhelming to even the most macho man.<\/p>\n

A newborn child is full of potential for greatness or destruction, it is impossible to say.<\/p>\n

The death of a loved one means the end of someone’s potential. There is no next hug, or future conversation anymore.<\/p>\n

The most likely outcome is that Voyager will continue to fly away from us until long after we all cease to be, even after our planet and our sun are dead, it will still be chugging along slowly offering an olive branch to a people that probably never existed.<\/p>\n

But there is the potential that Voyager is our first contact and that it is a message of peace. Even in our trying times of Mutually Assured Destruction, we were able to put together a little note of our entire history, knowledge, and experience. We looked at ourselves with outside eyes and we asked ourselves what makes us us? Then we shot it to outer space with one of our strongest rockets then available.<\/p>\n

The best hope of Voyager ever being found is that of future space-faring humans. What will they think of their ancestors when they see it? Will they remember it from their education, or will it be an artifact of a forgotten civilization?<\/p>\n

The profundity of its smallness and slowness, being yet one of our most sophisticated pieces of technology, and bringing a message of optimism that will almost certainly never be heard is pretty damned charming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What if these same words in an alien language translated to a declaration of war? They’ll probably read it as: “Hey stupid aliens…we’re 200 billion strong and we’re comin’ to getcha! Let’s get ready to RUMBLE!!!! I dare you to attack the President of the United States of America and the White House on June 16 with 1977 of your most powerful spacecraft! ”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Also on the spacecraft is this gold plated record cover<\/a> designed by Carl Sagan and his team. They were hoping to create a message that would be universally understandable.<\/p>\n

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They did a kickstarter last year to release it on vinyl for the first time. It had been a difficult process because so many of the recordings were owned by different people. I’m not sure if they got everything on there, but they tried.<\/p>\n

“We have already cleared the copyright on all the music that is possible to clear. We have worked with a respected rights clearance firm, The Rights Workshop, throughout this process to ensure that we are respecting the copyrights of others.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/ozmarecords\/voyager-golden-record-40th-anniversary-edition<\/a><\/p>\n

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Lmao aliens are going to find it, try to disseminate it to their population, and when they make contact with us they’ll all be receiving court summons for copyright infringement.<\/p>\n

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We’ll fire a concentrated beam of lawyers at their mothership.<\/p>\n

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Well its hard to make a pure stream of lawyers so we end up with small amounts of other professions mixed in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“We cast this message into the cosmos. It is likely to survive a billion years into our future, when our civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed.”<\/p>\n

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but you will need to read the rest of the reddit comments by yourself – they are brilliant, especially imagining our current President welcoming aliens to Earth. We are gonna build a Dyson Wall:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Plus.. isn’t it nice when a President writes really dorky stuff?.. .   . the golden record: http:\/\/goldenrecord.org\/#discus-aureus Greetings in 55 languages and, also, Whale greetings. On second thought, not sure what they were thinking exactly with the Whale greetings, somewhere in there something sounds like someone is choking on a peanut. How are we sure it is not Dolphins… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,133,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-nasa","category-not-sci-fi","category-space","post_format-post-format-image","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}