STARDUST chips

[CV]

I came across this info re the Stardust chips mounted aboard the Stardust space craft that NASA launched in 1998... the chips contain over a million names , that were submitted over the internet... http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/overview/microchip/faq.html What interested me most was this pair of questions..

How can I contact a person whose name is on one of the microchips?
Contact information is not available for any persons listed on the microchips through the STARDUST office. We did not collect any email addresses or other contact information for the individuals listed on the chips.

Â*I am doing genealogy research. How can I find out more about a name listed on a microchip?
We've been overwhelmed with email from people who have been researching their family tree, and encountered names from their family on our microchip name listings on our website. Unfortunately, since we did not collect any additional information other than their name, we do do not have any background information on any of the people whose names were submitted, nor do we have any way of contacting these people

It set me thinking ... what if these chips are actually sucessful in making 'contact' ... what if lost generations of ancient Egyptian or Aztec space travellers want to contact their descendants on Earth?! ... NASA really fucked up by not keeping their email addresses on file, dont you think?

[grobelaar]

Yeah, that does seem a bit amiss of NASA...

Hmmmm, it seems that our world is full of little unexplained anomalies, particular things that archeologists find buried beneath us...

I also find it amusing that since we began flinging nuclear powered lumps of recording sensors (probes) off into outer space practically every one has had a little project to attach some sort of communication device on the side. Apart from being somewhat reckless - who knows what is out there... I do wonder whether these things are going to end up being the anamolies in some other beings universe or dimension.

This kinda makes a bit more sense if you think about the universe as atmospheres of perception. So where we are we have Planet Earth there's the atmosphere which defines our 'survival' atmosphere - then obove us there's outerspace and below us rock or water... Water is interesting, as it has many atmosphere's stacked on top of one another, from what we commonly refer to as the ocean - to all that weird shit that is in the deepest and still unexplored depths of our own oceans - some of which was explored and shown to stunning effect on the BBC series Blue Planet...

Sorry getting a bit trippy again...

[Weishaupt]

Originally posted by cristian

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It set me thinking ... what if these chips are actually sucessful in making 'contact' ... what if lost generations of ancient Egyptian or Aztec space travellers want to contact their descendants on Earth?! ... NASA really fucked up by not keeping their email addresses on file, dont you think?

.........best for to read for this theme:

The 12th Planet
by Zecharia Sitchin

[LEFTHANDLOU]

Wow Thats just plum dumb. Another great idea done Half assed. yay humanity ;)

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Originally posted by grobelaar
Yeah, that does seem a bit amiss of NASA...
I also find it amusing that since we began flinging nuclear powered lumps of recording sensors (probes) off into outer space practically every one has had a little project to attach some sort of communication device on the side. Apart from being somewhat reckless - who knows what is out there... I do wonder whether these things are going to end up being the anamolies in some other beings universe or dimension.
Sorry getting a bit trippy again...

yeah, it would be cool if one of those rockets would be some kind of holy artefact for an alien population and they would pray and sing and dance, carry it on a golden desk and sacrifice virgins to make it good-mooded.

as for the e-mail adresses, i'm sure there's one organization that has them stored: CIA

[Sheridan]

I remember on one of nasa's rockets or satelites nasa scientists put some metal engravings of a picture of a man and a woman. the best part was they were pretty much identical to the images you find on bathroom doors in the states indicating where the men and women should go.
so if the aliens do ever come back, they know where the pisser is I suppose.

[Ruben A]

I really think it just was another easy trick from NASA. Letting the people around the world (mostly americans) "join" their projects... share a little something with them. So people forget about the huge amount of money they use on their space projects!
Now people are more interested in how it goes with the "chip" and hoping someone/something will find it - and then READ MY NAME!!! uhuhuuuh..

Why the hell should an alien want those names?? It possible can´t read - and maybe just destroy the fucking chip....

nahh.. it´s just a simple little branding-trick... tst tst..

[Mui]

well.....how are the people who's names are supposedly on it going to know if their name is on it anyway....it's not like they'll see it, unless they're aliens, or the alien turns up at their door then says 'ere I think you lost this, its got yer name on it'

[grobelaar]

Originally posted by Sheridan
I remember on one of nasa's rockets or satelites nasa scientists put some metal engravings of a picture of a man and a woman. the best part was they were pretty much identical to the images you find on bathroom doors in the states indicating where the men and women should go.
so if the aliens do ever come back, they know where the pisser is I suppose.

They were the Pioneer probes, and it was the classic line drawing of picture of a male torso over a female torso - in a round circle (a little more complicated than the toilet door graphics). There was also a graphical representation of our solar system and arrow pointing to the third planet...

The Voyager probes have gold data discs on them (sort of early laserdisc) - containing video and some classical music and various other bits and pieces. The theory being that an advance civilisation would be able to decode them and get the data... I like the idea o them being used as placemats on some alien dinner table - out the window you can see some alien kids messing about on a climbing frame that looks suspiciously like a Voyager probe... Either that or they come and invade us for flinging lumps of decaying nuclear waste out into space...

[owain_k]

I reckon these Alien would be like......"not more bloody rubbish!"

My theory is they'd use the laser discs for their larger than earthling style cups (big handed types these aliens).

[CV]

Aliens really stuck with the betamax format anyway , so they would never bother trying to decode a video disc... actually I think those discs were actually records you know! which goes to show how little attention the music industry payed to the highly significant importance of analogue recording media, to all of mankind's music... think , all that vinyl can be listened to with a piece of paper and a safety-pin - post-fossil fuel rave anyone?

[octavedr]

if the world blows up due to the loudest techno sound system ever built it'll be the folks whose names are chips that get rescued/kidnapped by the aliens/giant robots/other

But it's typical tho it's just the names, some kind of picture and DNA strand might've been a better idea......

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Originally posted by octavedr
if the world blows up due to the loudest techno sound system ever built it'll be the folks whose names are chips that get rescued/kidnapped by the aliens/giant robots/other

But it's typical tho it's just the names, some kind of picture and DNA strand might've been a better idea......

they maybe thought that was too risky, giving a possible unfriendly alien folk all the details about humans.

they could maybe clone some humans, improve their genetic code in some way and send them back to earth making everything ready for a proper invasion.
oh shit i think they have already landed. hasselhoff is surely just a forerunner.