Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site aurora.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!ames!aurora!al From: al@aurora.UUCP (Al Globus) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Re: Voyager on to Uranus. Message-ID: <382@aurora.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 17:53:38 EDT Article-I.D.: aurora.382 Posted: Thu Aug 15 17:53:38 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 22:16:35 EDT References: <282@hrpd3.UUCP> Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 14 > > I have a question ..... > If something the size of a voyager, presumably not radiating > much radio energy, were to enter our solar system from an alien > culture, is the possibility of us detecting it more than miniscule ? > > I just wonder it would burn up in the sun unnoticed. If this happens, > it would make all Carl Sagan's artistic work of a man and a woman > rather pointless, and just a waste of NASA's budget. > Not a waste at all. As was recognized at the time, the chance of extraterestrials seing the work is miminal, but the work has been viewed by thousands, if not millions, of us earthlings.