How about this?!
Messages from around the world are to be beamed into space at the speed of light as part of a cultural project to create a celestial time capsule.
Read the rest here: user link on phys.org
Um... so, yeah.
Artistic space odyssey to broadcast people's messages to the stars
| # 12215 | 9 years ago on Mon, Feb 8 2016 at 3:30 pm |
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| # 12217 | 9 years ago on Mon, Feb 8 2016 at 3:33 pm |
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It's a really cool idea, but...
What if we receive a message back, and it reads:
Shhh. Be quiet... or they will hear you...
Food for thought. For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. -- Carl Sagan |
| # 12230 | 9 years ago on Mon, Feb 8 2016 at 7:40 pm |
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Problem is that we've been sending messages passively out into space ever since radio was invented. No responses (that we know).
Maybe there's too much distance for our radio transmits to get far enough before we're all gone anyway. |
| # 12240 | 9 years ago on Mon, Feb 8 2016 at 10:32 pm |
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I think Stephen Hawking advised against an active attempt to make contact with extra-terrestrials.
Really, I'd agree that the distances are such that we'd likely not need to worry. 73's, KD8FUD
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