Sending messages into space is not new. In 1977, NASA sent the two Voyager spacecraft discs with images and sounds of our planet. But now wants to repeat with a digital, global and participatory message, because after almost 40 years the world is not the same.
The draft 1977 a small group of experts involved, among including the famous American astrophysicist and science popularizer Carl Sagan (1934-1996) and Jon Lomberg, an artist and popularizer who is now determined to repeat, but big.
His project is called “One Earth Message “(a message from Earth) and it aims to create a new digital message interstellar representing the Earth, produced by its inhabitants. And “you will board” of the spacecraft New Horizons NASA found beyond Pluto.
The aim of Lomberg, explained to EFE, is that in the next three years people around the world can start sending their -images ideas, sounds or any other material, and that in 2019 the great mosaic is sent.
the final communication will be the result of an election by popular vote and will occupy 150 megabytes. “This is a unique opportunity for people in the world can collaborate in the development of an interstellar message,” says Lomberg, adding that this project has two audiences: one, extraterrestrials, it is not known if they are, will and you will discover; and other people on Earth, that itself will have access to all information collected in a web and the final message.
It is still early, but in this global communication will be space for music . In this sense it aims to raise a group of world-renowned musicians such as Brian Eno or Paul Mc Cartney- to fill this space with songs or pieces of songs to choose or create a new composition.
When in the seventies NASA sent images and sounds in space probes Voyager, did not send anything negative
this, according to Lomberg, has to be different this time. you can not talk about the world without talking about their problems and talking about them, perhaps, we find some solutions: “it is a great challenge”
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