NASA is preparing to send the New Horizons probe to Pluto. It will be the first earth device to get intimate with the icy planet. And you can be there too - or, at least, your name. NASA is asking everyone to send them their names, which will be attached in the space device. The New Horizons probe will be launched in January 2006 to explore Pluto and the Kuiper belt, in the outskirts of the Solar System. It is expected that the probe will return to earth in approximately 50 thousand years.

from: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid...657212&from=rss

they have done this before, with Deep Impact and one of the Mars probes, I think.

Yeah, but this is cool anyway.

They should charge for it, like 20 bucks a peice.

I wonder why this is: "It is expected that the probe will return to earth in approximately 50 thousand years."

Are they sending the signatures via US mail?

Probably. Or maybe by email.

In the past I have heard them send DVD's with the lists of names on them. At least I know that 15 bytes of my name of digital data are sitting on pluto

Yah right ... a DVD would freeze up on Pluto... I'm betting the probe is gonna take it back to Earth in those 50,000 years... like a time capsule.

Well, that was a complete waste of money and time......who the heck is going to be around here in 50,000 years? It might as well be 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0
00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0
00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0
00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0
00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0
00,000,000,000,000 years, I mean come on!

at least The Time Space continueum will Remember us, and have a piece of are info on it,and in 4444 years, when the APocalypse is around, and time travel may be possible,aliens could find the proof that we existed.



Born apart from any other,
He creates armys on either shore.
And makes mankind, fight brother to brother,
Until Mankind,Exists no more.

the poem of the Antichrist and Apocalypse.

I think your imagination is a bit wild Issac55, and how do you know the apocalypse will happen in 4444 years?