@the_Effekt @SmudgeTheInsultCat
I follow this guy on YouTube. He explains a lot about Florida..
@SmudgeTheInsultCat OMG!!! I KNOW WHAT THIS IS!!! I saw it in a science book for children DECADES ago (and never again since) and I still knew that it was a message to aliens and sent in a spacecraft. ^_^
Folks, never underestimate the power of a good children's book!
(Looked up the details just now and here's more info on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque )
@SmudgeTheInsultCat making a copy now just in case :)
FYI it's easy to confuse Voyager and Pioneer http://www.thestargarden.co.uk/Pioneer-and-Voyager.html (the plaque in the picture is Pioneer, not Voyager)
When the plaque was unveiled, that's (almost) exactly what happened.
In a letter to the Los Angeles Times: "I must say I was shocked by the blatant display of both male and female sex organ"
(O_o)
p25, Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective.