Comments on: NASA’s Messages to the Great Unknown

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 03:17:04 +0000

Since my last posting, some scientists are now saying that we actually live in a simulation. Does this simulation have other life?

Elon Musk, a proponent of the simulation theory, would most likely say yes.

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 03:26:48 +0000

I am not sure which is harder to accept – that I have been reading this site for 15 years or that Mr. Bellows has been at the helm for 15 years.

Seems like yesterday.

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 12:39:50 +0000

Three items:

1.) John: Thanks for posting on my 66th birthday.

2.) Which one has the better odds of happening? The spacecrafts survive for thousands of years until other beings find them, or the spacecrafts are destroyed by an asteroid or comet?

3. Since this article first appeared, a number of scientists now claim that a strong possibility exists that we are actually alone in the universe.

By: John

John — Wed, 15 May 2019 01:29:49 +0000

I believe that the Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft will be found some day, hundreds of years from now, by….US. I think hundreds of years from now when were are able to venture out into space in ways unfathomable to us now, that there will be expeditions to find the Voyager and Pioneer spacecrafts and return them to earth. There in the museums of the future, the generations yet to come will marvel their ancestors’ hopes and dreams and passion for discovery.

By: Oscar

Oscar — Wed, 18 May 2016 03:01:23 +0000

The chance of advanced civilization finding our spacecraft is very unlikely. The spacecraft will probably miss all the galaxies and end up outside the universe in a few billion years. And even if it does somehow crash onto another planet, the only life would probably be bacteria or some small animals. But it’s still pretty cool to see people try.

By: Irving Washington

Irving Washington — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 01:11:54 +0000

Does anyone else find it hilarious that there was an uproar over the drawings of a nude man and woman on Pioneer? Anyone outraged that there is an anatomically correct drawing, floating around millions of miles away in space, that depicts what two humans ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE should never have been allowed to join the discussion. As they threw a fit over an accurate representation of human anatomy, someone should’ve just patted them on the head and said “That’s nice dear. Why don’t you sit over there and think quietly about why you are offended by the human body – which you have one of, too – and let the grown-ups talk?”

Assuming that anyone at all ever finds Pioneer, would they even know what a penis is, let alone be offended by a reproductive organ? We sent a message about humans; of course there is going to be an image of what humans naturally look like. I like to imagine Pioneer crashing into a populated planet, millions of years from now. “What the – are those reproductive organs? What kind of civilization would send this FILTH? LET US DESTROY THEM!” Then they either blow up Earth over some anatomically correct drawings, or just show up and make giant crop circles in the shape of their reproductive organs, like “How do you like it, huh?”

By: kim

kim — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 19:16:34 +0000

i hope nobody will find it – humans will be slaves

By: Malleus Mal

Malleus Mal — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:58:35 +0000

I have bad news. In my opinion, we are utterly alone in the Universe. At best, there may be some forms of life millions of miles away, that exist briefly, and are then extinguished, just as earth will cease to exist one day. I suspect this happens over and over, again, throughout the Universe. For different forms of life to communicate over these vast distances, given their brief existence, would be a rare event, indeed.

By: ColCrabs

ColCrabs — Sat, 25 May 2013 15:16:21 +0000

Great article as usual! I love Damn Interesting!

On a side note I really love the addition of the ‘Read, Get Ebook and Comment’ bar, it’s really handy to know if I have enough time to read through the article. It’s the little things sometimes.

By: Frank G

Frank G — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:02:21 +0000

Wow another great article here, that is a little outdated now of course.
To update it I could mention here that the KEO satellite hopefully will be launched in 2010.

If anyone is interested you can put a message on the Keo , check it out here

http://www.keo.org/

Frank G