• Flying Squid
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      68 months ago

      Carl Sagan frequently spoke out against the horrors of nuclear war.

      Who knew it was because he wanted the world to be habitable for when the aliens invaded?

      • @whereisk@lemmy.world
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        48 months ago

        So you’re saying he was preserving us as a food source! Millions of light years of travel ought to make a fella hungry. What will they eat if we are dead?

        • Flying Squid
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          38 months ago

          Sounds more like he was preserving us as a fuck source. Aliens must be pretty horny. And way into butt stuff.

          • @whereisk@lemmy.world
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            28 months ago

            Hahaha! Why can’t it be both? Copulating with livestock has been a human passtime for millennia after all.

            • Flying Squid
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              28 months ago

              Good point. And food replicators just can’t reproduce accurately the smell and taste of a really well-cooked human.

    • @yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca
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      48 months ago

      Now that I think about it, why did they suppose that other intelligent life forms (if there are any near us at all) could “read” the data in vynil records?

      Never mind, they put a bunch of diagrams on the cover to explain how to play it. Although it could still not work, because we have no idea if other intelligent life forms are capable of reading diagrams.

      • Flying Squid
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        78 months ago

        The whole thing was a publicity stunt. The chances of an alien civilization ever finding the Voyager probe are so close to zero as hardly matters.

        I’m not criticizing it. Sometimes publicity stunts are important. It got people interested in the Voyager program and, hopefully, other space science programs as well.

        • @whereisk@lemmy.world
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          78 months ago

          So important, they did a whole lot of science on the way and captured (and still do nearly 50yrs later) people’s imagination and sense of wonder.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]
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    198 months ago

    I’m sorely disappointed that no death metal was included on the Golden Record.

    I mean, death metal wasn’t invented yet, but I’m still allowed to be disappointed.