No, God forbid, we are not talking about flesh-and-blood passengers, who of course cannot survive in the conditions of space, except for a number of gifts carried by the spacecraft making its way to Pluto, which in fact contains a time capsule of life when launched by disks and other means
The New Horizons spacecraft has been making its way through space for over a thousand days towards Pluto and the Kuiper belt. To mark the milestone, members of the operating team of the New Horizons spacecraft decided to reveal the hidden passengers on board the spacecraft. These are nine objects (I wonder why...) that were attached and sent on a ten-year journey to the ends of the solar system.
1. Remains of the ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of the planet Pluto.
2. The names of 434 thousand people on a CD
3. A CD with photos of New Horizons team members on it
4. A quarter of an American dollar with the state side of Florida - the state from which the spacecraft was launched.
5. A quarter dollar from Maryland, the place where the spacecraft was built.
6. A small piece of the Spaceship-1 spacecraft (the first civilian spacecraft - the one that won the X PRIZE. It was installed inside the inner lower deck of the spacecraft, and it consists of two sides. On one side it is written: "As a souvenir of the historical role in the promotion of space flights, this piece of Spaceship 1 was flown On another historical spaceship - New Horizons, making its way to Pluto - the ninth planet in the solar system" (remember, at the time of launch, Pluto was still considered a planet). On the back of the piece from the Spaceship 1 spacecraft it is written: Spaceship-1 was one of the first private manned spacecraft. Spaceship-1 took off from the USA.
7. The US flag
8. Another version of the US flag
9. A stamp from 1991 with the planet Pluto and the inscription "Pluto - not yet explored"
The chief researcher on the mission, Dr. Alan Stern, revealed the list of objects at a ceremony at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, where a model of the New Horizons spacecraft was placed. Stern said he plans to petition the US Postal Service to issue a new stamp for Pluto after the spacecraft arrives there.
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Hugin
And Tommy I thought you stopped branching. I must have been wrong.
A drifting gray cell.
I'll tell you a tiny, tiny personal secret. Your response makes me content with being tiny and tiny, hiding the tiniest of things from me and content with a pinch of mine. Your knowledge of the essence of an issue is everything to me. And you've earned me a world. Thank you.
A. Ben-Ner,
The spelling error has been corrected, and thanks for pointing it out.
good week,
Roy.
I haven't visited here in a while - and in the blink of an eye I feel like I never stopped:
Thank you, Hugin, etc., thank you for bringing me back to the drifting spirit of the human being - who will scale the heights!
From the depths of Tartarus to the heights of the cosmic universe - and we haven't reached the end of the texture and fullness yet!!
Metaphysics in its embodiment!!!
A multi-faceted ethical quote: "And the hand of everything was in everything".
Fascinating! Adds more and more portions of interesting and complementary information to the comprehensive research.
Thanks.
From the Hebrew literal point of view: Pluto comes from the root "Plat" etc.
From the mythological point of view: "Pluto"
Also constitutes the secrets of Hades/Tartaros (the depths of the earth) mentioned in Dante's Divine Comedy.
And Yehuda..
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It is true and it is healthy to think that "the past cannot be changed, the present passes in the blink of an eye, and what we need to worry about is the future".
You discover that the branches that symbolize the future, and the trunk that symbolizes the present all feed, after all, from the roots -
Arising from the depths of Tartarus - the root of everything. (and the spirits of the dead) and to the extent that there is still rot and unresolved issues found on loan in "hell" the matters that have not yet reached the destiny of complete justice to their circumstances in a huge revolving complex.. "the lesions" of the "damaged" root continue to affect a cosmic chain Existential, dynastic, cosmic, etc. on the products/descendants/Christians/branches of the world tree.
And here, enters the essence of the "metaphysical" study of everything in everything.
Hugin
It is proper to refer to the distinguished list matter-of-factly, seriously, one by one. As follows :
1. Clyde Tumbo, ZTL Indeed a worthy choice. What would they have done if he had been buried and not cremated?
2. What is "Prophets of Adam"? Maybe it means "human idioms"?
Maybe it means "names of people"? - requires clarification.
3. A CD with the names of Horizons team members on it. Not right but acceptable. Just as electricity company employees have free electricity, etc., etc.
4-5. Florida and Maryland quarters. The Americans are really stingy. That's an amount that might offend the people on Pluto. How would you feel if you received such a gift? Tactlessly .
6. A piece of the first commercial spaceship - a pathetic homage of the Americans to sinking pig capitalism.
7-8. Two versions of the US flag.- It is expected, any other country would do this. The good old patriotism, but only in eighth place?…
9. "Unexplored" stamp from 1991 - finally a meaningful gesture. And the meaning: there is science, there is progress, there is culture, there is…..hope.
10. This is what is missing…
In my opinion, it would be appropriate to fill this space with...
"Ten Commandments".
Goodbye.
Unlike the common Israeli reactionary, right?
Stupid Americans…