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Anonymous Fri 29 May 10:45:51 2020 No.11729646 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11729652 >>11729653 >>11729664 >>11730094 >>11730142 >>11730583

Is this the dumbest and most pointless thing NASA has ever done?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 May 2020 10:47:35 No.11729652 Report

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>>11729646

What's so pointless about it? On the off chance that some aliens find it at least they'll have something cool to think about

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Anonymous Fri 29 May 2020 10:48:25 No.11729653 Report

Quoted By: >>11729657

>>11729646
No, even if they hadn't actually sent the probe into space it'd have been useful. The things they came up with to reflect humanity, show our location, etc. will all prove useful someday, I'm sure.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 May 2020 10:51:46 No.11729657 Report

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>>11729652
Show this to a jellyfish or monkey and see what they think about it. That's how stupid this is.
>>11729653
Useful to whom and when?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 May 2020 10:54:44 No.11729661 Report

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>>11729657

Why would I show it to jellyfish or monkeys? It isn't meant for them, it's meant for theoretical aliens. If it lands on some planet of primitive beings it'd be cool if they ended up using the disk as the basis of their religion. No need to be a stick in the mud about it, if the soviets launched monkeys into space then sending that disc isn't a problem.

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Anonymous Fri 29 May 2020 10:56:36 No.11729664 Report

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>>11729646
>Is this the dumbest and most pointless thing NASA has ever done?
No, it is the dumbest and most dangerous thing NASA has ever done. We just let the universe know that a bunch of retards with nukes have spaceflight capability

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 May 2020 11:00:28 No.11729668 Report

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>>11729661
>theoretical aliens
Exactly. Chances approach 100% that whatever life form receives this message would be something like a jellyfish or monkey that the message would be lost on. They're going off the mistaken assumption that the life form would be like us (we're the only animal out of millions that have developed a civilization) and not just an amoeba, aquatic creature, etc. Out of all the life forms on this very planet we would probably be the only ones to give it a second glance so what chances are for another planet?

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Anonymous Fri 29 May 2020 11:00:49 No.11729669 Report

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It was a collective act of existential anguish - an 'oh shit' moment in the fear of nuclear-induced extinction, that we have to leave a mark of our existence on the universe, or be forgotten forever.

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Anonymous Fri 29 May 2020 11:04:10 No.11729674 Report

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>>11729669
they should send another one with today's technology so we can send a better message

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Anonymous Fri 29 May 2020 11:04:13 No.11729675 Report

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>>11729668

Well let's think of it this way. You can make the argument that this thing can be a momento or something. When humanity goes extinct, our civilizations lay in ruin, the Earth dies and the sun eventually swallowing it up the only thing left of our existence would be that disc. That one small piece of legacy out there somewhere when there's nothing else left. I think launching it for that is worth it alone. Maybe it'll get found, maybe not but the important thing is that it's out there somewhere waiting to be found.

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Anonymous Fri 29 May 2020 11:11:25 No.11729686 Report

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>>11729674
wasn't the whole point of the message that it would be timeless, regardless of technology used?

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Anonymous Fri 29 May 2020 14:36:17 No.11730094 Report

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>>11729646
no, remember that time they spent about a bajillion dollars to kill fourteen people?
remember that time they kept spending that money to do nothing after they stopped flying the thing that killed fourteen people, because of muh jerbs?
THAT is the Constellation Project aka SLS, and it's the most pointless thin that NASA has ever done

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Anonymous Fri 29 May 2020 14:53:02 No.11730126 Report

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>>11729674
Include a line drawing of a tranny so aliens can prepare for that. Also, some shitty nigger music should be included next to Mozart, since it’s a reflection of this shit modern society.

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Anonymous Fri 29 May 2020 14:58:55 No.11730142 Report

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>>11729646
can someone explain what all the lines mean? even if intelligent aliens found it, what would they interpret?

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Anonymous Fri 29 May 2020 15:04:53 No.11730157 Report

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>>11730142
It’s an attempt to show measurement and other baseline information thought to be shared with another intelligent species. Like the length and frequency of hydrogen atoms.

It’s an attempt. It may be useless, or the bare male genitalia will encourage the aliens to figure it out. I don’t think there is anything or anybody out there beyond our corner of the galaxy. It’s all empty planets and dead suns, we are all there is of intelligent life, and earth holds the only life in the universe.

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Anonymous Fri 29 May 2020 15:11:12 No.11730178 Report

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Nah it's pretty cool. Based Sagan was behind it. Tell ya what though the musics awful. Feel sorry for the aliens.

Art going to space is pretty cool. This one is going up with Demo 2 but just to give it 'flown' status so the artist can charge more.

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Anonymous Fri 29 May 2020 15:13:03 No.11730187 Report

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>>11729664
It's in Interstellar space forever anon. We didn't shoot it on to Romulus.

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Anonymous Fri 29 May 2020 17:56:19 No.11730556 Report

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>>11730178
Why draw a picture of a monkey and write hymn next to it? Are aliens to infer that we are hairy stupid apes with no aptitude for math?

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Anonymous Fri 29 May 2020 18:02:14 No.11730583 Report

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>>11729646
blowing up space shuttle 2-3 times, killing 3 astronauts in the first trial of those pods was another.. NASA may be shit at doing anything useful but they do know how to burn people alive in creative ways

might see that again with space x-plode soon, atleast muh rain will take the flames out

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Anonymous Fri 29 May 2020 18:04:56 No.11730592 Report

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>>11730126
>muh Mozart lol
shove it up your ass faggot

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Anonymous Fri 29 May 2020 18:05:59 No.11730594 Report

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>>11730126
back to pol mexican anon

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