Farthest Human-Made Object: First Quarter Century

An anonymous reader writes "The NASA Astrobiology Magazine reports today the 25th anniversary of the Voyager I launch, now the farthest human-made object at 93 Sun-Earth distances (93 AU), or 12 light-hours away. Expected battery life to 2020. The fascinating part is that gold record of civilization, which is a strange audio mix of sentimental kisses [wav file, let ET phone home that way] and perhaps the most dated picture of DNA. Some progress there. Voy 1 will likely confuse even modern earthlings-- much less ET. Case in point: In 2002, can we understand that 70's show, when the Polish greeting memorialized as "Welcome, creatures from beyond the outer world"? Unlike those ET creatures we meet daily from the inner world?"

Comments

25 Years

[Spackler]

Does this mean the goatse guy was actually an ALIEN ANAL PROBE?

Was image 26 where they got the idea? (http://vraptor.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/record_images /image026.gif)

What have we done?

Re:Perspective (OFFTOPIC WARNING!)

[Kintanon]

Just so you know, not everyone loves to see babies, I find them disgusting and useless and unpleasant to both see and be around.

Kintanon