They packed All of the music from around the globe ,and our gender.ARe we getting rescued or what???
2007-05-04 18:29:17 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
What you're asking about is aboard Voyager I, which isn't a satellite but a deep-space probe that has actually left our solar system. The music, pictures, and map of our location in the Milky Way were put on board Voyager because it will eventually be in interstellar space where it's not impossible for some alien space-faring race to find it. Maybe they'll check us out..!
2007-05-04 18:35:37 · answer #1 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The way I understood it, it was to inform any alien civilizations who stumble upon the Voyager crafts about who we "were," not how to find us. Note the past tense.
Presumably it will be tens of thousands of years if not millions before any aliens will encounter the probes, if ever. By then it's expected that humanity will have long ago either become extinct or will have advanced well beyond these aliens' abilities to do us any harm.
Today, however, we would be extremely cautious about revealing our existence or location to any advanced civilizations considering our current primitive, vulnerable state. That is why project SETI only attempts to eavesdrop on other civilizations. They never attempt to transmit and betray our presence.
2007-05-05 02:29:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some people at NASA want to communicate with aliens if they exits. If anyone finds the Voyager 2 spacecraft, people like Carl Sagan feels it wouldn't hurt to provide a little supplemental information.
2007-05-05 01:56:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The thought at the time was that if there are intelligent races out there, that they may one day recover it and come a visitin`. At least we hoped that they might have the technology to do so. If they did have the tech. to get here, they just might rescue us, from us.
2007-05-05 02:16:19 · answer #4 · answered by Dan N 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're referring to the Voyager spacecraft (not satellites), it was done in the faint hope that some alien civilization would stumble upon it. I look forward to the day when we first contact them.
2007-05-05 01:34:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
So they will know which direction to direct their communications equipment. As far as coming here, it is so far, that it is all but impossible; they would have to fold space, or spend millions of years in flight.
2007-05-05 01:39:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's probably to let the nice alien life forms that might find it know where to find resources when their own planet starts dying.
assuming that we haven't killed the planet by then, the aliens can come over and take our resources that we so kindly offered them
because we are nice
2007-05-05 01:33:46 · answer #7 · answered by Jim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is so that if an alien race found us, they would know of our presence, and maybe, just maybe, come along and say "Hello"
2007-05-05 03:49:56 · answer #8 · answered by Wedge 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So that when it crashes on another planet, they will know who to make war against, or sue for damages. If 'rap', hip-hop, and disco are on it, they will wonder about our sanity, or get sick.
(NYUK!)
2007-05-05 01:39:30 · answer #9 · answered by ideamanbmg 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are no way points or intersections in space.
They would just have to flounder blindly til they found us.
2007-05-05 07:38:12 · answer #10 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋