Send Your Name To Mars

[Blacklight]

NASA is givung us the opportunity to get more things to brag about:

http://mars9.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/sendyourname/index.cfm


Brags: My name is already on Mars on a DVD attached to the Phoenix Space Probe. It's in orbit around the Moon in the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and my signature is included with a few thousand that's on board the Cassini space probe in orbit around Saturn. :DL

[mookiemookie]

Just hedging our bets here:

http://imgur.com/eNyJf.png

[Onkel Neal]

:har: Better safe than sorry.

[Blacklight]

:haha::haha::haha:

You know... someday... when historians dig these spacecraft up in the far future, how many stupid joke names they'll have to go through when they're studying the things. I wonder if anyone eyeball checks the names before they get to the spacecrafts ?

[Torplexed]

:haha::haha::haha:

You know... someday... when historians dig these spacecraft up in the far future, how many stupid joke names they'll have to go through when they're studying the things. I wonder if anyone eyeball checks the names before they get to the spacecrafts ?

Well, thanks to Carl Sagan's bright idea, we as a species have already sent naked pictures of ourselves out of the solar system on a gold-plated plaque aboard the Pioneer space probes. I have no doubt that someday, somewhere out there in the universe aliens will be getting giggles at our high-minded expense. :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque

http://www.sfwriter.com/uploaded_images/pioneer-716287.jpg

[Buddahaid]

Just sent my friend Kathy who died from breast cancer a week ago. :wah: Why the hell not?

Buddahaid

[Letum]

The Pioneer plaque has one too many planets.
That's gonna confuse them...errr...if the rest doesn't.

[Rilder]

Wait till 4chan sees this...

[Torplexed]

Wait till 4chan sees this...

I think they already have.

http://raincoaster.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/pluto-lolcat.jpg

[Raptor1]

Right, time to inform the Martians of our real intent

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/6741/rb000158.png

[Blacklight]

You can see the DVD that my name is stored on in this picture of the Phoenix probe. I wasn't expecting to actually SEE it just sitting on the outside like that. I hope it's insulated well from anything damaging. It looks like it's already filthy. :nope:

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA10777_modest.jpg

Just looked up information on the DVD on Wikipedia:
Attached to the deck of the lander (next to the US flag) is the "Phoenix DVD", compiled by the Planetary Society. The disc contains Visions of Mars, a multimedia collection of literature and art about the Red Planet. Works include the text of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (and the radio broadcast by Orson Welles), Percival Lowell's Mars as the Abode of Life with a map of his proposed canals, Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, and Kim Stanley Robinson's Green Mars. There are also messages directly addressed to future Martian visitors or settlers from, among others, Carl Sagan and Arthur C. Clarke. In 2006, The Planetary Society collected a quarter million names submitted through the Internet and placed them on the disc, which claims, on the front, to be "the first library on Mars." This Phoenix DVD is similar to the Voyager Golden Record that was sent on the Voyager 1 & 2 missions.

The Phoenix DVD is made of a special silica glass designed to withstand the Martian environment, lasting for hundreds (if not thousands) of years on the surface while it awaits discoverers.

The text just below the center of the disk reads:
“ This archive, provided to the NASA Phoenix mission by The Planetary Society, contains literature and art (Visions of Mars), greetings from Mars visionaries of our day, and names of 21st century Earthlings who wanted to send their names to Mars. This DVD-ROM is designed to be read on personal computers in 2007. Information is stored in a spiral groove on the disc. A laser beam can scan the groove when metallized or a microscope can be used. Very small bumps and holes represent the zeroes and ones of digital information. The groove is about 0.74 micrometres wide. For more information refer to the standards document ECMA-268 (80 mm DVD Read-Only Disk).

[Stealth Hunter]

I sent the lyrics of BAD into space...

Michael, your songs shall live on.

[Blacklight]

I hope that NASA doesn't stop doing this type of thing if they get an overabundance of silly names. I think it's neat to be able to brag that your name is on another planet. :DL

[Stealth Hunter]

I think it's neat to be able to brag that your name is on another planet. :DL

You and a million other people who participated in this exact same thing, lol.

[Blacklight]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Blacklight http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/smartdark/viewpost.gif (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?p=1135038#post1135038)
I think it's neat to be able to brag that your name is on another planet. :DL

You and a million other people who participated in this exact same thing, lol.

Exactly !!!! :DL