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NASA schickt neue Voyager-Sonde ins All – mit Kontext-Hinweis und Gender-Korrektur

Washington (dpoi) – Die NASA hat heute feierlich den Start von „Voyager 3“ verkündet, einer neuen Raumsonde, die, ganz wie ihre Vorgängerinnen, das Universum durchqueren und potenziellem außerirdischem Leben eine freundliche Botschaft von der Menschheit überbri
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#MamM #markscheid #NASA #Sonde #Voyager

It is a widely known fact that despite loving #startrek I am not a huge #voyager fan; specfically I find #neelix very very annoying and unlikable.

Due to a mixup, a techno toy that I bought myself for my birthday (a #clockworkpi #PicoCalc ) ended up getting shipped to my parents in the US. My friend agreed to bring it over with him on a trip to the UK. I finally got it yesterday and excitedly unboxed it only to find my "friend" had filled it with pictures of neelix! He got me so bad.

Things the Golden Records (#Voyager) don´t show - or how I transmitted a sanitation truck into space long before ESAs Blue Danube Waltz

Golden Record / image No. 117

When I was an Artist-in-Science at the European Space Agency - ESA / ESOC in #Darmstadt in 2022 I mainly focussed on our waste culture and how we brought this culture into space (#orbitaldebris). At the same time, I also looked at how we have been turning a blind eye to the waste we produce for decades and continue to do so today. I found it extremely revealing to see that back in 1977, when #NASA made a selection of images to supply the data collection stored on the #GoldenRecords which were designed to inform possible #extraterrestials about the existence of the earth and its inhabitants, the images described many aspects of human existence, but left the reality of our modern life, such as the production of waste in large parts unnoticed.

Which is why I decided to change that and send an extra image into space to be understood as addition to the collection of the 116 diagrams and pictures generated by NASA in 1977 : On October 20th, 2022 the image of a sanitation truck (#JamaicaBay, #NY) from the year 1973 was uplinked through the tracking network of European Space Agency (#ESA) in the direction where the “Golden Records” attached to the NASA Voyager space probes are currently traveling in interstellar space.

We will now see what the extraterrestials will make of it. A sanitation truck floating through space to the beat of the Blue Danube Waltz.

ESA / #BlueDanubeWaltz: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/ESA_transmits_the_Blue_Danube_Waltz_into_deep_space

[Swaantje Güntzel, Golden Record / image No. 117, color photograph, 29.5 x 23 cm]

Installation view "Swaantje Güntzel INSTANT PARADISE" 25.5. - 13.8.2023, Villa Dessauer. Fotos: Tobias Hübel
Image sanitation truck: EPA / Alamy Stock Foto

#art #conceptualart #deepspace #space #sanitationtruck #waste #sanitationtruck #landfill

My little boy loves #space and #numbers and “Dr. Binocs” and black holes and visits to the Hayden #Planetarium. So I had this poster made for him with Frank Drake’s model for teaching counting as was on #voyager.

After his nap, he came out to his poster and began instinctively tracing the numerals to ten. He then pointed at 100 “ten zero” and 1000. Hopefully whoever finds this craft will find it fascinating and decide we’re worth meeting.

“This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe.” - Jimmy Carter #space #voyager