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Taken from Voyager 1 in 1990 as it moves away from our solar system, outside of its plane (looking down).

Earths a tiny speck 1px. Voyager is moving at 10 miles per sec. The next planet it will come on imaging range of will be in 40'000 years.

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Something about seeing Earth from that far away, in a shot taken by something we made gives me a weird tingley feeling.

mrd wrote:Something about seeing Earth from that far away, in a shot taken by something we made gives me a weird tingley feeling.

I too, and wonder why? You have to remember that was taken in 1990

Now to the maths: Voyager is moving at ~ 10 miles per second, and let's say that it is 13 years, that's about 4,099,680,000 miles further away

Imagine, some day in the far distant future an alien race sees a plaque like this/these and wonders WTF?

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^^^ CORRECTION ^^^
Plaques above were placed on 2 Pioneer crafts 10 and 11.
Pioneer plaques wiki


Here is the Voyager equivalent, a golden record



source acknowledged

wiki and an interesting piece on the contents

Whiskey 7 wrote:

mrd wrote:Something about seeing Earth from that far away, in a shot taken by something we made gives me a weird tingley feeling.

I too, and wonder why? You have to remember that was taken in 1990

Now to the maths: Voyager is moving at ~ 10 miles per second, and let's say that it is 13 years, that's about 4,099,680,000 miles further away

Funny, it only takes light a few hours to go that far. I don't think Voyager will ever come across anything in our species' lifetime. Still a fun experiment though, and you can't blame us for trying.

I see nips, breasts, dick and scrote....bant.

@ people getting their panties in a bunch over nekkid people on a spacecraft going where no one will likely ever see it. (not you GFY, I mean wankers in the 70's)

Man, it would be pretty badass if we found something like this floating through the universe... a message in a bottle, so to say. Would be a fun exercise to try and decode it!

mrd wrote:........ a message in a bottle, so to say. Would be a fun exercise to try and decode it!

Yes, hard to imagine any being (?) reading our message(s) hundreds of millions of years in the future, working out the puzzle.

Someone somewhere proposed these insurmountable interstellar distances are/were like quarantine guarantees put in place by whatever God is/was, whether you believe or not

Begs the question IMO Thoughts?

Interesting Subject: Isn't God amazing?
Thanks Doombrain for provoking some thoughts.

Nonsense. It's all relative. Whose to say that our entire galaxy isn't simply a complex molecule-like structure that makes up a part of some other very large sentient being that is 60 trillion thousand billion light years wide?

As I believe GFY said once in a thread like this, it's fruitless and redundant to ever ask "why?" in cases like this. Answer the other W's first, worry about Why last, because it's the hardest thing to answer.

EDIT: Hard to imagine possibly, but when you think of the scale at play.... it seems possible that something may intercept it at some point. Either that or it will be eroded by space rays or sucked into a star/black-hole/etc.

I think more spacey shit should be mandatory in grade school. The vastness of space is very humbling. Once you realize that the universe is essentially a very violent place and how marvelous the intricacies of our blue marble are, its very hard to get legitimately upset at fags or people who smoke weed etc.

mrd wrote:I think more spacey shit should be mandatory in grade school. The vastness of space is very humbling. Once you realize that the universe is essentially a very violent place and how marvelous the intricacies of our blue marble are, its very hard to get legitimately upset at fags or people who smoke weed etc.

Wholeheartedly agree