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Re: NASA Unveils Design for Message Heading to Jupiter's Moon Europa

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Post by throwaway-blaze » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 1:22 AM UTC

jfengel wrote: post #18

cdelsolar wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seemed like a decent poem to me. Are you a literary critic?

I am. (Or at least, adjacent to one, a Shakespeare scholar.) In my opinion, it's OK, but not her best work. Which I suppose is inevitable, since she's writing it on spec rather than from her heart. Compare it to "Sharks in the Rivers", which I like better: https://poets.org/poem/sharks-rivers Calling out "the whale song, the songbird singing" feels facile to me. These are easy, accessible "mysteries", cliches. But of…

Gotta ask, Shakespeare scholar and hacker/techie? That's great. I did a lot of art history classes while majoring in cs as an undergrad.

Re: NASA Unveils Design for Message Heading to Jupiter's Moon Europa

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Post by dubrocks » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 1:33 AM UTC

If I were an alien civ that received an interstellar list of millions of people's names, I would assume they were narcissistic idiots.

Re: NASA Unveils Design for Message Heading to Jupiter's Moon Europa

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Post by sph » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 7:02 AM UTC

mannyv wrote: post #7

Alternative messages: "Help I'm trapped in a spaceship factory!" "Turn over for important message." (on both sides) "Duck" "For a good time call 1-800-elon-sux" And of course, "New tablet who dis?"

"Could this be a trap?"

"Listen carefully."

"Message ahead."

"Try finger, but hole."

Re: NASA Unveils Design for Message Heading to Jupiter's Moon Europa

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Post by sandspar » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 12:10 PM UTC

I'm sorry that I feel this way but this seems completely pointless. It's very much "young scholars get to meet First Lady Hillary Clinton" feel-good bullshit. It's the kind of thing that a certain type of "gifted" non-technical smart person likes to pat themselves on the back about. "We want it to bring humanity together" yet nobody else on planet Earth gives a shit about any of it. I have immense sympathy for the no doubt dozens of Pinterest mood boards that were created and destroyed in pursuit of this project.