The pioneer plaques are a pair of gold-anodised aluminium plaques that were placed on board the 1972 pioneer 10 and 1973 pioneer 11 spacecraft. These crafts were holding a pictorial message incase the unlikely possibility that either of the pioneer 10/11 are intercepted by extraterrestrial life. The pectoral images show a nude male and female with symbols that indicate the location of earth. These space crafts are the first ever manmade objects to leave our solar system. These plaques have been designed in a way that would shield them from erosion by interstellar dust. Carl Sagan in an interview said that it is possible that these spacecrafts could be drifting in space for longer than the earth will exist. The original idea of a spacecraft carrying a message from mankind was first mentioned by Eric Burgess. He then approached Carl Sagan who had given multiple lectures about communication with extraterrestrial life.
Carl Sagan facts
Carl sagan was potentially the most beloved and respected american scientific visionary since Einstein. Both gifted astronomy researcher and communicator. He bought the wonders of the universe to the masses with the popular TV show Cosmos and prize winning books - Dragons of eden and the pale blue dot.
The pale blue dot is a photograph of earth taken February 14 by the voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of 6 billion kilometres.
The Dragons of Eden:speculations of human intelligence - Carl Sagan combines the fields of anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology and computer science to give a perspective on how human intelligence my have evolved.
"Look again at that dot. Thats here. Thats home. Thats us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know and everyone you have heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilisation, every kind and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar"every supreme leader every saint and sinner in the history of our species has lived there - on a moat of dust suspended in a sunbeam"
- Carl sagan, 1934-1996
- Harvard passed on hiring Carl Sagan as a lecturer saying his work was needlessly wordy and useless.
- He dictated all of his work and writings to audio recorded logs.
- He considered writing a children's book called 'How do birds fly?'
- He did not like the space shuttle programme saying it was a false idea of space travel
- He was an early crusader against climate change, after studying venus's harsh climate, he argued that earth could reach the same fate.
- He wanted to legalise pot
- He thought Star Trek was too white and said a better representation would have been more culturally diverse.
- He said that we should leave mars alone and keep it preserved, although he was for space exploration he said that it would not be in our best interest to try and terraform and colonise mars.
"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies, we are made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff."
Carl sagan was potentially the most beloved and respected american scientific visionary since Einstein. Both gifted astronomy researcher and communicator. He bought the wonders of the universe to the masses with the popular TV show Cosmos and prize winning books - Dragons of eden and the pale blue dot.
The pale blue dot is a photograph of earth taken February 14 by the voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of 6 billion kilometres.
The Dragons of Eden:speculations of human intelligence - Carl Sagan combines the fields of anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology and computer science to give a perspective on how human intelligence my have evolved.
- Carl sagan, 1934-1996
- Harvard passed on hiring Carl Sagan as a lecturer saying his work was needlessly wordy and useless.
- He dictated all of his work and writings to audio recorded logs.
- He considered writing a children's book called 'How do birds fly?'
- He did not like the space shuttle programme saying it was a false idea of space travel
- He was an early crusader against climate change, after studying venus's harsh climate, he argued that earth could reach the same fate.
- He wanted to legalise pot
- He thought Star Trek was too white and said a better representation would have been more culturally diverse.
- He said that we should leave mars alone and keep it preserved, although he was for space exploration he said that it would not be in our best interest to try and terraform and colonise mars.
"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies, we are made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff."
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