{"id":181,"date":"2012-10-25T00:49:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T00:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exponentialdecay.co.uk\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:40:07","slug":"message-in-a-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exponentialdecay.co.uk\/blog\/message-in-a-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"Message in a Bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s a little bit like throwing a bottle into the cosmic ocean<strong>. &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Carl Sagan<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There were some nice moments in the BBC4 documentary on the Voyager program: <a title=\"BBC iPlayer: Voyager: To the Final Frontier \" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2525618\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Voyager: To the Final Frontier<\/a>. None more so than the emotive concluding remarks from the narrator and then the wonderful <a title=\"Wikipedia.org: Carl Sagan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Sagan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carl Sagan<\/a>. While intelligent extraterrestrial life <em>might<\/em> discover the\u00a0<a title=\"Wikipedia.org: Voyager Golden Record\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voyager_Golden_Record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gold records<\/a>\u00a0on each of the probes &#8211; there were actually <em>two<\/em> audiences for the data they encoded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You might think that it is a hopelessly quixotic project to launch this\u00a0message in a bottle into interstellar space and expect anyone will find it,\u00a0but there are really two kinds of recipients of the message on the Voyager\u00a0records. One is the extra-terrestrial audience. The other audience is here\u00a0down on Earth. Here is a moment when we have to suddenly think, &#8220;What is\u00a0there about our culture that we would want others to know about, that we\u00a0would be proud of?&#8221; The record should represent the human species as an\u00a0entirety. The unity of the human species, seen down here, is a fact that is\u00a0essential for the human future. &#8211; <strong>Carl Sagan<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Header image,\u00a0<a title=\"NASA.gov: Neptune and Triton\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120805180329\/https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/display.cfm?IM_ID=2146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neptune and Triton<\/a>: \u00a9 NASA.\u00a0See also,\u00a0<a title=\"NASA.gov: Pale Blue Dot\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121125050514\/http:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/display.cfm?IM_ID=2148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pale Blue Dot<\/a>.\u00a0Voyager: To the Final Frontier: <a title=\"bbc.co.uk: Voyager: The Final Frontier \" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2525618\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Program Information<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_181\" class=\"pvc_stats total_only  \" data-element-id=\"181\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon small\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-prefix=\"far\" data-icon=\"chart-bar\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\" class=\"svg-inline--fa fa-chart-bar fa-w-16 fa-2x\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M396.8 352h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V108.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v230.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm-192 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V140.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v198.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm96 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V204.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v134.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zM496 400H48V80c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16H16C7.16 64 0 71.16 0 80v336c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h464c8.84 0 16-7.16 16-16v-16c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16zm-387.2-48h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8v-70.4c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v70.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8z\" class=\"\"><\/path><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/exponentialdecay.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nIt&#8217;s a little bit like throwing a bottle into the cosmic ocean. &#8211;\u00a0Carl Sagan There were some nice moments in&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exponentialdecay.co.uk\/blog\/message-in-a-bottle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Message in a Bottle&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_181\" class=\"pvc_stats total_only  \" data-element-id=\"181\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon small\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-prefix=\"far\" data-icon=\"chart-bar\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\" class=\"svg-inline--fa fa-chart-bar fa-w-16 fa-2x\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M396.8 352h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V108.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v230.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm-192 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V140.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v198.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm96 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V204.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v134.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zM496 400H48V80c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16H16C7.16 64 0 71.16 0 80v336c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h464c8.84 0 16-7.16 16-16v-16c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16zm-387.2-48h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8v-70.4c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v70.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8z\" class=\"\"><\/path><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/exponentialdecay.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"local","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,110],"tags":[398,112,28,25,399,111,382,450,27],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-humanities","category-space","tag-carl-sagan","tag-nasa","tag-sagan","tag-science","tag-science-communication","tag-space","tag-space-history","tag-space-programme","tag-voyager","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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