@Fil Albuquerque,
Quote: The silly gold placard with the solar system map and the human shape are enough reason to take it back. Not because someone will stomp on it but just because it was bad thinking nonetheless...
what would you have done were you were assigned to address the Project Direction Committee's directive to assume that , someday, Voyager would be intercepted by aliens, and we would want to communicate toexplain in as simple a fashion , what we are about??
Its easy to sit back , more than 40 years on, with technology advanced well beyond that of the 1976 "Build horizon" and smugly criticize .
I love it when our abilities to critique are developed solely from the newspapers by Monday morning Qbacks.
Izzat one of the benefits that only philosophers are able to futz with?