Ancestors

Written by jo lang uste fonts on 2025-02-04 at 13:59

We all know about the Pioneer Plaque and Voyager’s Golden Record but have you seen the ‘Water Words’ on the Europa Clipper. It is a plate made of tantalum and has the waveforms of the sound of the word water in 103 languages engraved on one side.

Its a plate of semiotic beauty and I hope future lifeforms will not listen to it backwards.

https://europa.nasa.gov/spacecraft/vault-plate/?ref=longnow.org

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Written by Tarnport on 2025-02-05 at 08:50

@jo This is gorgeous, and I am not really worried but... It always strikes me as if the frogs in my pond sent out a raft to broadcast all their weights and measures, their frogsong and locations, in parseltongue and hawkspeak.

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Written by Leonard Ritter on 2025-02-05 at 09:17

@Tarnport @jo the golden void scream disc

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Descendants