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How far we’ve come in less than half a century: 1977: NASA sends a carefully created record containing “sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of
by Someone 3y ago
How far we’ve come in less than half a century:
1977: NASA sends a carefully created record containing “sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form who may find them” into space (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record)
2023: NASA sends a cat video into space.
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- pfdietz 3y agoObviously they should have sent cat memes in 1977.
- eichin 3y agoI was going to be pedantic about this (the laser downlink is from space, from Psyche-probe to Earth) but that got me wondering, how did they get the cat video on board? The article points out that it was loaded onto Psyche before launch. Which means we're using rockets to send cat videos into (interplanetary) space... the logical evolution of the "station wagon full of magtapes" meme.