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re: The Voyager golden records have uranium on them to serve as clocks

Posted on 6/7/26 at 7:49 am to
Posted by Huey Lewis
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Member since Oct 2013
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Posted on 6/7/26 at 7:49 am to
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My thoughts are that "First contact" will happen once we are able to achieve interstellar travel.


Or maybe we're the most advanced. First contact will happen when we land on a primitive world where the people shite in their hands and smear it on their own faces and the space progressives will start shuttling them to earth and handing them EBT cards.
Posted by cypresstiger
The South
Member since Aug 2008
14149 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 8:13 am to
Could NASA possibly make those symbols any more abstract?
—Proves you’re not an advanced alien
Posted by deltadummy
Member since Mar 2025
2661 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 8:25 am to
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Why would we assume that aliens would know what uranium is?


We're not assuming anything. We're using the best thing we have.

None of this is all that difficult to understand.
Posted by deltadummy
Member since Mar 2025
2661 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 8:27 am to
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Would time dilation affect any of this?


Not unless the lifeform reading Vger had travelled close to light speed for a bit or spent time near a black hole. Vger is moving at 10 miles/sec, though that's not going to dilate time any appreciable amount, relatively speaking.
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
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Posted on 6/7/26 at 8:30 am to
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when we land on a primitive world where the people shite in their hands and smear it on their own faces and the space progressives will start shuttling them to earth and handing them EBT cards


If the current trend continues, this does seem to be more than plausible.
Posted by BestBanker
Member since Nov 2011
19520 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 8:30 am to
Could've stuck a McDs cheeseburger on it.
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