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Not adding to the confusion = Good Thing (I mean, if a HUMAN can get hopelessly lost down there, imagine how mind-bogglingly complicated it must be for an alien).
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quote:Originally posted by Nim: Some sort of solar-driven video message, perchance?
Girls Gone Wild: Arcturus, perhaps?
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There have been no new attempts at such things simply because there are no new flyby missions planned for the immediate future. Everything that's been launched of late ends up on the surface of a planet or purposefully burning up in the atmosphere. The next flyby mission being planned is the Pluto Fast Flyby, and I'd assume it'd have something like that on it. The next "Grand Tour" planetary alignment (allowing flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in one sweep) like the one Voyager 2 was sent on won't happen again for another 150 years or so.
A while back, one of the Mars probes was to have a CD packed on it containing the names of everyone who signed up on a website. I think it was the Mars Polar Lander, which unfortunately did a pizza upon arrival.
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