The Good Remembering: A Message for our Times

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It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

The ache for immortality

I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

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Comfort in Times of Trouble

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When the two Voyager missions launched from Cape Canaveral in , embarking on a grand tour of the outer planets that ultimately would send them into interstellar space, each carried a copy of a golden record — a compendium of human, biological, and geological sounds and images inscribed phonographically on gilt copper disks. The records were meant to chart our place in the galactic neighborhood and tell the story of life on Earth. But the golden records are hardly the sole example of messages sent to the stars on NASA missions.

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The probes, however, are already storytellers in their own right. Any sufficiently-advanced civilisation recovering one of the two Voyager probes in the reaches of outer space, it was supposed, would find the record, understand its purpose, and divine the means of playing it back. But the odds against any of this happening are, well, astronomical. As of this writing, the two Voyager probes are between 15 and 20 billion kilometers from earth; transmissions, traveling over the Deep Space Network at the speed of light, take more than 15 hours to bridge the gap.

As Sagan himself admitted, the message of the probes was meant in the first instance for a contemporary, Earthbound audience, and secondarily to serve as a time capsule.

In Murmurs of Earth , which documents the Voyager Golden Record project, Sagan tells the story of Esarhaddon, the seventh-century BC Assyrian king who had inscribed plaques deposited in the foundations of monuments as messages for future times. Humans had long made sacrifices to address their wishes — votive offerings, from the Latin votum , or vow. There is even a probe with such a purpose, its plaque meant not for extraterrestrials, but for the equally alien future inhabitants of Earth.

The probe itself is a magnificent object, strikingly different from run-of-the-mill satellites, a ball of solid brass more than half a meter in diameter, weighing roughly kg and dotted with reflectors like a large disco ball. There is a peculiar quality in these plaques and golden records — a compound of the Quixotic and the Ozymandian; an acknowledgement of our cosmic insignificance, paired with pride in the craft that pries that knowledge loose from the world — which is deeply characteristic of science in the late 20th century. These messages in a bottle were among the more telling transmissions in a mythology of wonder that American science generated in the midth century — an attempt, through science itself, to preserve a record of life on Earth, in light of destructive powers unleashed by science in the atomic age.


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