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What is This?

02/21/2016 9:48 PM

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Re: what is this?

02/21/2016 10:07 PM

Google Earth for aliens....

Alien coin....?

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02/21/2016 10:13 PM

Aliens don't use coins, or Google.

They've gone back to wampum and smoke signals.
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02/21/2016 10:30 PM

Ask jeeves?

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02/23/2016 9:37 AM

That's no coin, it's an LP record.

That photo is of a copy of the record that was attached to V'ger- Sorry, Voyager 1 and/or 2, with 'significant audio snippets' from the 60's, when the probes were launched.

Also on the probes are record players to play the LP's, in case the aliens have all switched to CD's by now.

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Re: what is this?

02/23/2016 11:15 AM

Too funny!
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02/23/2016 11:30 AM

I wasn't sure if I was being 'too retro,' after all, *WE'VE* already abandoned vinyl for CDs, then abandoned CD for direct digital download.

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02/23/2016 11:50 AM

both launches were 1977

https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#q=voyager%20%3Baunch%20date
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02/23/2016 12:29 PM

I stand corrected.

I just remembering it containing nature sounds (including whalesong), greetings in several Human languages, popular music from the era, and If I'm not misremembering, some of the more uplifting recorded speeches about humanity needing to band together as brothers.

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02/23/2016 12:53 PM

no problem ;)
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02/22/2016 11:41 AM

why are aliens ugly and slim?

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02/22/2016 2:13 PM

They only look that way to us humans.
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02/25/2016 1:24 AM

This does not correlate any intelligence in beauty. I wonder if there are theory around. The prettier the specie the smarter they become.

So far in the animal kingdom, included in the top 5 list of intelligent specie are

  1. Chimpanzee
  2. Pigs
  3. Bottlenose Dolphins
  4. Parrot
  5. Whales

I could not agree, they are far more beautiful and intelligent than us. Now, for those ugly Extraterrestrial, I could agree even that they are dumber than us.

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Re: what is this?

02/21/2016 10:08 PM

The Stoned Rosette. (Reminds me somewhat of the Viking platter.)

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02/21/2016 11:44 PM

That should have been Voyager rather than Viking.

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02/21/2016 10:09 PM

Without cheating, I'm guessing it's some type of gold disk that we're going to or did shoot into space.

I'm going to look now.
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02/21/2016 10:22 PM

get your copy here
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02/21/2016 10:29 PM

Penguin currency.
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02/21/2016 10:53 PM

It's flatter than a Pluto PlatterTM. (I.e., Frisbee.)
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02/22/2016 3:40 AM

A cry for help?

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02/22/2016 7:01 AM

It will be read as a warning.
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02/22/2016 7:02 AM

Took awhile, but I translated it:

This is where the B Ark landed.
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02/22/2016 9:55 AM

A space speed limit sign . enforcement by camera or Ipad.

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#14

Re: What is This?

02/22/2016 10:15 AM

The coin V'ger used to buy it's way back into human hearts.

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02/22/2016 10:20 AM

it isn't a coin
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02/23/2016 7:30 PM

Capt. Kirk's Frisbee.

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02/23/2016 10:27 PM

The Voyager Golden Records are phonograph records that were included aboard both Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977.

I'll just wait 'til they go platinum!!

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02/24/2016 2:21 PM

lol
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