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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 bad93ex
Posted on 6/7/26 at 7:49 am to bad93ex
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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.
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Posted on 6/7/26 at 8:13 am to shutterspeed
Could NASA possibly make those symbols any more abstract?
—Proves you’re not an advanced alien
—Proves you’re not an advanced alien
Posted on 6/7/26 at 8:25 am to nealnan8
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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 on 6/7/26 at 8:27 am to The Eric
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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 on 6/7/26 at 8:30 am to Huey Lewis
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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 on 6/7/26 at 8:30 am to weagle1999
Could've stuck a McDs cheeseburger on it.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 9:42 am to Smeg
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Should've just written the instructions in plain English, eh?
I was thinking stick figures, actually.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 9:46 am to fightin tigers
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If they managed to get to space and collect the satellite there is an assumption that they are at least as smart as us.
Thing is even if they were intelligent there’s still no guarantee their home planet even has uranium for them to know that. And their measurement of time is likely far different since we measure in earth years
Posted on 6/7/26 at 9:55 am to deltaland
quote:but the rate of decay is constant no matter where it is; so acts kind of like a universal measurement of time in application.
no guarantee their home planet even has uranium for them to know that. And their measurement of time is likely far different since we measure in earth years
...and even if they don't have that specific thing on their planet, the idea and measurement of decay may be a thing for other items on their planet.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 10:01 am to deltaland
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And their measurement of time is likely far different since we measure in earth years
Why would this matter? Ignoring for a moment the subjective experience caused by relativity, a given block of time is a given block of time, regardless of the units of measurement. It’s not fundamentally different than weighing two objects using imperial or metric units. Regardless of which you use, you can discern the mass of one object compared to the other.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 7:18 pm to weagle1999
We could build a much better version with today's tech. We should send Voyager 3 with a longer useful life span, better cameras, better communications, and improved speed.
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