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We are not alone.......... (in sending messages to space)
Project: Branding the Species
Project: Branding the Species
We now interrupt your regularly scheduled posts to bring you examples of other projects that either beam or otherwise send to space, messages from the human race.
Japanese Email to Space Hisashi Hirabayashi and Masaki Morimoto, two Japanese scientists from the Nishi-Harima Astronomical Observatory sent an email to space back in 1983 to the Altair Solar System. The first part of the email is below:
The translation is: "Dear People of Altair, We are organisms who reproduce sexually to form families. Life on Earth started in the water." The whole sum of the entire human race is reduced to these two sentences. This is how these two Japanesque scientists brand the human species: "reproduc[ing] sexually to form families". Wow.
Link: Earth Set to Receive Alien Reply, Invasion in 2015?
Cosmic Call Messages sent to space in 1999 and 2003 from the Evpatoria Planetary Radar, guided by Team Encounter, Richard Braastad, and Alexander Zaitsev. These messages were just meant to be simple messages from everyday people, as well as more complicated stuff like a copy of the Arecibo radio transmission, the Bilingual Image Glossary, the Braastad message, and something called the "Rosetta Stone", which is meant to illustrate both simple and complex mathematical concepts. I actually like this one, because it includes stuff from everyday people and stuff that's actually like concrete and scientific, unlike our project which seems more like an art piece than anything else.
Link: Cosmic Call Messages
Your Name In Space NASA is launching an online campaign for people to submit their names so they can be embedded in a microchip of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is set to orbit the Moon and help pick landing sites for the upcoming manned missions to the Moon. This one is all right, but it's a little deceitful because the LRO will not actually be touching down on the Moon, and your name will only be in a microchip. It's not gonna be engraved or anything.
Link: Send Your Name to the Moon
The Phoenix DVD A collection of different multimedia assembled by the Planetary Society. It includes many fictional works and other art pieces about Mars, including The War of the Worlds, as well as messages for future Martian visitors/settlers from prominent scientists. Like the abovementioned NASA initiative, it also includes the names of people (a quarter of a million which is like such a tiny fraction of the entire earth population) that submitted their name on the Internet. It also claims to have the first library on Mars. This DVD is a good idea, but it's kind of dumb too because they didn't include a DVD player or TV screen to watch it in. I mean, those things are so cheap right now, why couldn't they just attach it along with the DVD? How are people supposed to watch this thing in the future? How are they supposed to know that they have to bring a DVD player to watch it in?
Link: The Phoenix DVD
Japanese Email to Space Hisashi Hirabayashi and Masaki Morimoto, two Japanese scientists from the Nishi-Harima Astronomical Observatory sent an email to space back in 1983 to the Altair Solar System. The first part of the email is below:
The translation is: "Dear People of Altair, We are organisms who reproduce sexually to form families. Life on Earth started in the water." The whole sum of the entire human race is reduced to these two sentences. This is how these two Japanesque scientists brand the human species: "reproduc[ing] sexually to form families". Wow.
Link: Earth Set to Receive Alien Reply, Invasion in 2015?
Cosmic Call Messages sent to space in 1999 and 2003 from the Evpatoria Planetary Radar, guided by Team Encounter, Richard Braastad, and Alexander Zaitsev. These messages were just meant to be simple messages from everyday people, as well as more complicated stuff like a copy of the Arecibo radio transmission, the Bilingual Image Glossary, the Braastad message, and something called the "Rosetta Stone", which is meant to illustrate both simple and complex mathematical concepts. I actually like this one, because it includes stuff from everyday people and stuff that's actually like concrete and scientific, unlike our project which seems more like an art piece than anything else.
Link: Cosmic Call Messages
Your Name In Space NASA is launching an online campaign for people to submit their names so they can be embedded in a microchip of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is set to orbit the Moon and help pick landing sites for the upcoming manned missions to the Moon. This one is all right, but it's a little deceitful because the LRO will not actually be touching down on the Moon, and your name will only be in a microchip. It's not gonna be engraved or anything.
Link: Send Your Name to the Moon
The Phoenix DVD A collection of different multimedia assembled by the Planetary Society. It includes many fictional works and other art pieces about Mars, including The War of the Worlds, as well as messages for future Martian visitors/settlers from prominent scientists. Like the abovementioned NASA initiative, it also includes the names of people (a quarter of a million which is like such a tiny fraction of the entire earth population) that submitted their name on the Internet. It also claims to have the first library on Mars. This DVD is a good idea, but it's kind of dumb too because they didn't include a DVD player or TV screen to watch it in. I mean, those things are so cheap right now, why couldn't they just attach it along with the DVD? How are people supposed to watch this thing in the future? How are they supposed to know that they have to bring a DVD player to watch it in?
Link: The Phoenix DVD
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