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1st missions to send manmade entities out of the solar system Photos of Jupiter on the way there then slingshot off So publicly know because of plaque, first message from humanity into the stars |
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Nearly never happened > brainchild of Sagan and Drake Ames Laboratory late 1971, approved last minute > approved because its audacious Deadline of just weeks and tiny 6 by 9 plaque |
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Message left for aliens not clear, recognise two because familiar familiarity = subjective, objectivity = good & therefore use science |
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Galactic map 1st needs a scale to make sense, joke about americans and metric Language barrier broken by laws of nature, something aliens will understand HyperF. T. of Hydrogen has EM w/ wv = 21cm & frq = 0.7ns |
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Relative position of Sun to centre of milky way and 14 pulsars, only 1000 stars and then use solar system Frq of pulsar recorded to show when map was made May never be read but shout against the silence |
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Racism, Sexism and Pornographic Tried their best, outdated gender roles, and compromise over genitalia because prudes Artefact of its time to both to aliens but also us because of how 70s society affected it |
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Message for ET life, but also one received on earth 70s a troubled time with fears of our future because of nuclear war and global warming We are mankind and we are here, and asks us, do I tell them where man is, or where man was |
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