Pioneer Plaque

[Kobe]

You ever think about it? I was pretty much blown away the first time I ever read about it. I'd like to know what the rest of you think about this idea. Anything, humorous, conspiracy or intellectual, anything. Just your thoughts about something like this out of our solar system zooming through space :wondering:

According to Wikipedia, the Pioneer plaques are a pair of gold anodized aluminum plaques which were placed on board the 1972 Pioneer 10 and 1973 Pioneer 11 spacecraft, featuring a pictorial message, in case either Pioneer 10 or 11 are intercepted by extraterrestrial beings. The plaques show the nude figures of a human male and female along with several symbols that are designed to provide information about the origin of the spacecraft.

You can read a lot more about it Pioneer plaque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia if interested.

 

[Duke]

Yeah, if they're supposedly intercepted by aliens it says we're carbon based lifeforms living there and there (providing directions to earth gives doomsday theorists a field day).

I dunno. I suppose it can do little harm. If some advanced alien civilization wanted to annihillate us they might not wait for directions from a plaque.

On the other hand, it could help us establish first contact

Most likely, those craft will zoom on till eternity almost, never seeing anything or anybody.

 

[S. Fourteen]

Some colonists from Earth will find it while mining for precious metal on planet MT343234-B and get a good laugh out of it and sell it on ebay-nextgen for an outrageous profit.

 

[Jokerman]

You ever think about it?

It's all I think about.

 

[Kobe]

Most likely, those craft will zoom on till eternity almost, never seeing anything or anybody.

That's a hard hitting reality, could end up as another case of wasted American taxpayers money.

Its also doesn't serve a purpose if we end up extinct and there is nothing on earth receiving communication from it. Millions of years from now, how would evolved humans even know it exists?

 

[Kobe]

Some colonists from Earth will find it while mining for precious metal on planet MT343234-B and get a good laugh out of it and sell it on ebay-nextgen for an outrageous profit.

On average, these things are moving at a speed of either 33,000mph or 38,000 mph. So if they did crash on a planet, they'd be specks of dust

 

[Kobe]

It's all I think about.

Get outta town

 

[Jokerman]

You know, both Voyagers 1 and 2 also carry with them information, a disc, that contains pictures and sounds of Earth, and data detailing the location of Earth. They’re both now near the edge of the solar system (and in the hands of the alien Cyclops from Rigel-8).

We’ve also got messages on the Cassini spacecraft that's flying around Saturn right now taking pictures (porno). That's got all kinds of CD-ROMS and DVDs, like one of Bush telling the universe we're conducting a war on terror and “you’re next,” and a DVD of Independence Day to show them what they'll get if they try to invade earth.

Compared to that, the Pioneer plaques were really just teasers.

 

[Farzin]

^That's why aliens have spent special ops to kidnap Will Smith but have been unsuccessful but you wouldn't hear that on the news.

Why do you think he gets such good movie roles? He pretty much runs the US government now.

 

[S. Fourteen]

On average, these things are moving at a speed of either 33,000mph or 38,000 mph. So if they did crash on a planet, they'd be specks of dust

When you file a SNAD claim in space, can PayPal hear you?

 

[Duke]

This thread got totally out of hand, but in a good way

Even if we, as humies, never get to know anything about it, it would be cool if the spacecraft we sent out would fall into the hands of a different form of intelligent life, at least revealing to them that they are indeed not alone.


I mean, if the space aliens from Rigel 8 sent a quirky little device through space 80 million years ago, wouldn't it be cool if the green, tentacled machine floated past the ISS and the astronauts wouldd be all like "omg, awesome!".

If the people from Rigel 8 would be told I'm sure they'd agree it's a good way to spend some money.

Unless Rigel 8 is a star, in which case I'm quite sure there's not much living there.