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The Message, 1920x1080 pixels video
We have sent four maps, each plotting a course to Earth, out into the deep dark void. You can find them on Pioneer 10 and 11 – launched in 1972 and 1973, respectively, to study the gas giants and the asteroid belt – and Voyager 1 and 2 – launched in 1977 to study the outer Solar System.
The maps, which were part of a range of anthropogenic designs, information or schematics sent into space, are specifically there for the purpose of finding the pale blue dot we call home. The rather romantic idea is that if intelligent life were to ever find them, they’d know how to come over and say hi, or at least beam a transmission our way.”
– Robin Andrews
The photo of Voyager Golden Record
included aboard both Voyager spacecrafts launched in 1977.
“In those days, all the people I dealt with were optimists, and they thought the ETs would be friendly. Nobody thought, even for a few seconds, about whether this might be a dangerous thing to do.” – Said Frank Drake, an American astronomer who pioneered the first modern search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) back in the 1960s – as well as a controversial equation that predicts the likelihood of alien life existing elsewhere in the universe – designed these maps.
According to some planetary researches, we should only listen, as these maps may be intercepted by hostile alien forces.