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?"

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Re:Sending that record was a great idea

[HanzoSan]

Actually no I'd expect aliens to be much smarter than that lol.

In 300 years? They could already know about it via technology we cant even comprehend and could be conquering us right now.

They could just hiijack our DNA which we gave to them and come to earth as human, and then because of democracy and their superior intelligence take over the world through technology and politics.

Hell they could destroy us just by coming here and giving us more technology than our governments could handle, like the internet and nano technology!