Sending messages into space is not new; for example, in 1977 the NASA sent the two Voyager space probes two separate discs with images and sounds of our planet, now wants to repeat with a digital, global and participatory message because almost 40 years later the world is not the same.
In 1977 the project was intruded a small group of experts, including the famous American astrophysicist and science popularizer Carl Sagan (1934-1996) and Jon Lomberg, an artist and popularizer it is now bent on repeating, but big.
Your project is called “One Earth Message” (A message from Earth) and aims to create a new interstellar digital message representing the Earth produced by its inhabitants, which will “come on board” of the New Horizons spacecraft NASA found beyond Pluto, told Efe Lomberg.
The objective of Lomberg is that in three years people around the world can start sending their -images ideas, sounds or any other material, and 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 (in 2019 the New Horizons will have space to load new data because they have been emptied of many) details this discloser , who gave two lectures this week in Madrid.
“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.
A, extraterrestrials, it is not known if they are, they are and will discover, and other people on Earth, that itself will have access to all the information collected on a website and the final message.
And, says Lomberg, one of the main objectives of this project is to contact thousands of people around the world (including isolated tribes, which are facilitate the transmission of your message): “the Earth has many problems and any initiative to gather people is very important.”
“The world is not the same, it’s time we launch a new message that the state of the planet.”
It is still early, but in this global communication will be room 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 images and sounds sent 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.”
Lomberg is a painter and recalls that when an artist paints a self-portrait “learn a lot”. This is what will happen with this project, which will be a self-portrait to Earth.
“It will be very interesting for sociologists and artists,” says the popularizer, who admits that not everyone will like what you choose to send.
In this regard recalls that the Voyager NASA prevented them send photos to people without clothes: do not know where are the limits now, the process will decide, and if an image should be sent or not.
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