[FPSPACE] FW: The PI's Perspective: Nine Mementos to the Ninth Planet

[LARRY KLAES]

Thank you for pointing me to this, Robert, and for asking those questions
on the subject regarding those NH objects.  I am glad to see I was not
the only one wondering and concerned on a rather uncommon event.

I still think if they had the time to gather all those other objects to put
on the probe, an effort could have been made for something more
substantial.  And if they didn't have the time, then get an outside group
to do the work, just like with the Pioneer Plaques and especially the
Voyager Records.

Carl Sagan and his group did the work on their own with only a matter of
months to get it done in time for launch.  They dealt with all the
bureaucracy and other nonsense while the main Voyager team got
two probes ready to flyby four major worlds.

As for worries about images of nude people offending the overly
sensitive - ah, it's time to grow up. :^)

While it is all said and done for NH, I hope this event will inspire the
next team working on an interstellar mission (and there will be more)
to either make more of an effort to put some substantial artifacts and
information about humanity and our world onboard their vessel - or at
least hire out the job!

Larry


>From: Robert Pearlman <robert at collectspace.com>
>To: "FPSPACE at friends-partners.org Partners" <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
>CC: LARRY KLAES <ljk4 at msn.com>
>Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] FW: The PI's Perspective: Nine Mementos to the Ninth 
>Planet
>Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:45:58 -0500
>
>On Oct 26, 2008, at 11:13 PM, LARRY KLAES wrote:
>
>>What the New Horizons team really should have done was placed  something 
>>akin to the Voyager Record aboard, to help future human  generations 
>>and/or ETI who may one day find the probe drifting among  the stars better 
>>understand those who built and launched it.
>
>
>Alan Stern discussed why a Pioneer-style plaque or Voyager-style  record 
>was not included on New Horizons during my interview with him  on Monday:
>
>To Pluto, with postage
>http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-102808a.html
>
>--
>Robert Pearlman, Editor
>collectSPACE - The Source for Space History & Artifacts
>http://www.collectspace.com/