Would this cosmic message fly today?
by David Atkins
When America sent a reconnaissance spacecraft called Voyager out into great beyond in 1977, knowing that it would one day leave our solar system never to return, our scientists gave thought to the possibility that an alien civilization might discover it. We feared then, even more so than today, that our fledgling civilization might destroy itself utterly, and wanted any potential alien beings who might happen upon our craft to know who we were, what we were like, and we aspired to be. To that end we passed along diagrams of our language and numerical system, our location in the universe and the galaxy so far as we could describe it, details of our physiology, and pictures of our lives and civilization.
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