From: cosmo (cosmicjo_at_email.arizona.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 21 2005 - 18:59:57 PST
Well, certainly you see the reason behind it....
If extra-terrestrials find the craft, they will know which nation to
support, with 430,000 people to telemarket to, and which private space
program to donate funding to.
Cosmo
Yvan Dutil wrote:
> This is was as been put in place of a SETI plate. It is bit a shame!
>
>
> (http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html)
>
>
> Pluto Mission to Carry Piece of SpaceShipOne
> The January liftoff of the New Horizons spacecraft bound for Pluto is
> toting a number of items, including a U.S. flag, as well as a compact
> disc
> containing more than 430,000 names.
> ...
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yvan Dutil" <Yvan.Dutil_at_sympatico.ca>
> To: "LARRY KLAES" <ljk4_at_msn.com>; <public_at_setileague.org>
> Cc: <bioastro_at_setileague.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 1:19 PM
> Subject: Re: SETI public: Ninth anniversary of the passing of Carl Sagan
>
>
>> I have personnaly contacted the New Horizon peoples offering help in
>> the design of a SETI plate years ago. Unfortunately, for reason
>> unknown to me this was not implemented.
>>
>> Yvan Dutil
>>
>>> As just one space-related example, there very likely would have been a
>>> detailed message disc on New Horizons spacecraft had Sagan been around.
>>> Instead, only the fifth probe to ever leave our Sol system will do
>>> so with
>>> just the equivalent of trinkets.
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
>>>
>>>
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