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How sad to lose contact, but how wonderful that we seized our opportunity to send out this beautiful messenger into the great unknown. This reminds me of somet
by owenversteeg 3y ago
How sad to lose contact, but how wonderful that we seized our opportunity to send out this beautiful messenger into the great unknown.
This reminds me of something I have been curious about for some time now. The Voyager Golden record depicts the world at 1.5b years, 4.5b years, and 4.51b years. The image of the continents at 1.5b seems realistic with Pangea, 4.5b looks to be the world accurately today, but 4.51 is unrecognizable- with Oceania featuring many new islands, new islands around Madagascar, and a large gap between Northern Africa and Eurasia. What is this image? It’s especially confusing given that the earth is 4.54B years old and the ten million years time between the two images isn’t enough for any continental drift of that magnitude in any projections I’m aware of.
See Diagram 39 here: https://www.lost-painters.nl/atlas/ https://www.lost-painters.nl/atlas/