When* someone finds the disc, comes to take a look, and finds a perfectly smooth planet laminated in a layer of microplastics - will they be able to appreciate our legacy or will 99% of our assholeness be lost to history??

many decades* in the future, no need to panic, space is vast

Rip, Jane Goodall, may your existence goodwash humanity's reputation in space forever.

[–] az04@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

It's also very human to "withhold information to make a good first impression" - Lemmino

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Omg, that's kinda what i thought. Nature pictures are super cool, but no picture of how we treat nature in general. No garbage island. Even back then, what defines a lot about humanity is war and treating each other like shit. I don't see a point in making us look like a perfect and great species, when we're clearly not. If anyone ever finds this, it's gonna be so far and so long, that it doesn't matter.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I agree, but I just wrote that for fun, actual alien consciousness would be just that, alien - prob not like (most of) Star Trek where species are kinda the same with suspiciously vast common grounds.

The concept of assholeness is extremely even Earth species specific.
From proper sci-fi, idk, maybe how our minorities will make decisions (in self-interest) that are not in the best interests of the species would be frowned upon ... but not eg even genocide, that's (why it's bad) is valid in our context, our situation).

For what it's worth I'm glad that stuff about our planet & ecosystems is in there/out there too, not just about some humans.
Well, that, and radio waves with shitty TV series & commercials/propaganda.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 8 points 1 week ago

Well put it back!

[–] Codename_goose@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is a fantastic project and wonderful results. I alway wondered how they did it and what all of the pictures were.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Some apes, filming a group of chimpanzees

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Two breeds of ape but one has a machine

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I thought we only send a handful of pictures! Never knew they were so many. Amazing!

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

We sent video too, encoded on the golden record! And audio!

Unless I'm misremembering! I'm not, surely? O.o

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Only sound and pictures, video would take too much bandwidth. Also fun fact, the pictures are only 384 scanlines tall

[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Shouting at stars

A history of what we sent out there.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah! I guess the great increase in volume justifies the technical complication (for the aliens) of encoding all of the pictures onto an LP

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Monkey with a gun.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Terrifying thought

[–] ksh@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

We need a nuclear powered gif display now.

pics

*many decades in the future, no need to panic, space is vast

many decades* in the future, no need to panic, space is vast