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Anonymous
Hello
Any chance of getting Hi Res
old science fiction drawings?
>> Anonymous
that is not science fiction, that was the golden disc launched to the space with the voyager.
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>> Anonymous
>>449559

I always loved the hips on that babe.

Aliens are gonna get here looking for action, find a bunch of skinny-ass Canadians or something, rescue all of the women with acceptable hip and butt genes, and take them to a planet far away where they can get some serious doggy-style on.
>> Anonymous
>>449553

Also I love how this shit just looks like some garbledegook unless you know what it means. Sending the aliens a puzzle seems like a bad idea, especially if they don't have the patience for that kind of shit. They'll get this, get pissed off, spend the time to decode it, then come to earth and destroy humanity for being such assholes.

Also, imagine if humanity got something like this. A bunch of scientists would spend years and years 'studying' it, without any way to figure out what it means--no key, legend, or hints whatsoever.
>> Anonymous
>>449574
iirc part of the diagram explains the code, idk which part though, its more just to show the aliens that we are indeed intelligent due to the pretty patterns, altho theyd probably have gathered that from the space probe it's attached to...

I can't really see a good reason why, if something like this was discoved and deemed to be extraterrestrial, it wouldn't be declassified for the public to have a go at decoding, and even if it wasn't, there is no way something like that wouldn't leak anyway.
>> Anonymous
>>449574

It's fairly easy to tell what it is if you have a bit of scientific background. I'm sure anything that can travel millions of lightyears wouldn't have a problem with it.
>> Anonymous
>>449641
Really? So you think that on the gold disc, the illustrations of the record needle would mean something to aliens who've never seen a record player? I'm sure they'd gather that the reverse side held some kinda info, but since it's analog and not digital, I think it'd be pretty unlikely for them to just play it back with no problem.

I figure future junk like this should include several different data modes, although of course they didn't have that back in the day. Like a working laptop set to auto-run, optical disks, books, pictures.

Then again, I think NASA has wised up and realized it's silly to think that a tiny little dead metal thing should be detected in dead, cold interstellar space.
>> Anonymous
>>449784

They could infer that it means something if they see that data pattern and apply different methods of trying to play it back. Analog is probably easier to read than human digital technology.

We have to put some trust in that any beings that can bend space or make themselves live long enough to travel through space would have the intelligence to sort it out.

At the very least, it would just be an indication that there is another intelligent race trying to get off their planet.

Anyway, it's just a symbolic gesture. And possibly one of the few examples of human intelligence and well-meant ingenuity that would survive if anything were to happen to us. Voyager will still be speeding away at tens of thousands of kilometers per hour when the Sun turns into a red giant and takes the Earth back into itself.
>> Anonymous
>>449886

Good points. At least someone remains optimistic. I'm probably a little too cynical for that. I figure our best gesture will be to show up around a habited solar system with some people. Assuming we aren't completely annihilated first.
>> Anonymous
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec1.html

the image in OP are the instructions for viewing the disc
>> Anonymous
>>450169
Should've put the fucking instructions with the disk...
>> Anonymous
>>449559
Woops! the 9th Plant, Pluto, is still on there. Umm. Now humanities' chances of communicating with the extraterrestrials has gone to pot since there's an error on the disk.
>> Anonymous
If i could travel in to deep space,a s human, and meet another intelligent beings who cnat be in peace with their own ppl, ill pass them by. Why pick any stuff from ragging ppl against each other? Maybe ill just take distance so dont get me involved in to their crap, or just leave. i dotn think that any extraterrestrial beings ( if they claim to be INTELLIGENT) will make contact with us with our crappy society as it is today. Perhaps if i were and alien i will do the very same as human: take some distance or pass them by... There´s not a common factor to define "humanity" as a worthy thing to keep for outsiders, what should it be the "good stuff" about humans?: fashion? money? ipods? Fuck...

If i were and alien entity maybe ill do the very same way they are doing it since ancient times: will contact the least fucked up ppl or take them away from that shithole of civitization =/
>> Anonymous
>>450771
God, you're so fucking stupid.
>> Anonymous
>>450778

What gave it away? His incoherent rambling or his terrible argument that aliens wouldn't make contact because that dumb ass thinks we are savage.
>> Anonymous
>>450982

If ET visits Earth before we can master planetary and space travel things may go badly.
On Earth the chief predator is top dog so we could conclude this is common. That makes us lunch, pets or slaves to a superior species.
>> Anonymous
>>450170

...What? The instructions are ON the RECORD. One side has the grooves, the other side has the 'instructions,' such as you can make them for beings you know nothing about... I still maintain they're going to be pissed off at having to solve an idiotic puzzle put together by some 'futurists.'
>> Anonymous
there is more evidence that aliens exist than there is proof that charlie manson is a murderer.
>> Anonymous
>>451082

Would it be simpler for an ET to read English instructions? It's only a puzzle through a human perspective. That's the best attempt at keeping it as simple and universal as possible as far as we can make it.

Besides, it was given to a group of scientists with no previous knowledge of the intent of the pictures on the plate and most of them got the major points.
>> Anonymous
>>451650
>it was given to a group of scientists with no previous knowledge of the intent of the pictures on the plate and most of them got the major points
That could be because the symbols on the plate are recognized by most humans anyway. We have no idea what sort of culture or inventions any ETs have, so they'd still be left in the dark.
I dunno though, that's just my opinion.
>> Anonymous
>>451650
What? Nobody said that. I didn't disagree that pictographs and binary were the only way to go to communicate without language. You might almost say that it's a puzzle the same way Egyptian Hieroglyphs were a puzzle for years--except that anthropologists figured out what hieroglyphs were by referencing them to other terrestrial things, a handy bit of help that extraterrestrials wouldn't have.

>>451660
+1
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>>451672
Meant to post. Get some pictures of some fucking deep space probes on here. Apologies for relatively low res.