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NASA Reveals Message Europa Clipper Will Carry During Its Search for Extraterrestrial Life on Jupiter's Moon
The Debrief ^ | MARCH 12, 2024 | TIM MCMILLAN

Posted on 03/13/2024 11:44:23 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

It is a very common assumption that a technologically superior species would be enlightened or peaceful. How does that work on Earth. We are far more technologically advanced than early Homo Sap. Are we more peaceful?

The reason we don’t hear alien civilizations is because they aren’t stupid enough to announce themselves.


21 posted on 03/13/2024 12:17:42 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Red Badger
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22 posted on 03/13/2024 12:19:59 PM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: left that other site

Yep, Chuck and Elvis would be great choices...Don’t know about Tiny Tim...


23 posted on 03/13/2024 12:22:52 PM PDT by PerConPat (The politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.- Mencken)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

LOL...I do believe they didn’t have enough room for 57 varieties.


24 posted on 03/13/2024 12:23:19 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: Red Badger

put my name on it


25 posted on 03/13/2024 12:27:02 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: PerConPat

LOL! :-)


26 posted on 03/13/2024 12:44:52 PM PDT by left that other site ("Salvation is of the LORD" (Prayer of St. Patrick) from Psalm 3:8)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yeah I’ve never been that impressed with any of these efforts to convey what Earth is all about to any alien recipients.

Admittedly it is a hard assignment. I would have elected to do nothing. The spacecraft itself with its controls include enough evidence that people like us exist. Any communication beyond that would take a while and is probably not desirable anyway.


27 posted on 03/13/2024 1:02:04 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: imabadboy99

“ Finally, the plate will include a portrait of the late planetary scientist Dr. Ron Greeley to honor his contributions to developing the Europa mission concept.

A professor of earth and Space exploration at Arizona State University (ASU) and principal investigator at the Planetary Aeolian Laboratory at NASA-Ames Research Center, NASA said Dr. Greeley’s “early efforts to develop a Europa mission two decades ago laid the foundation for the Europa Clipper. Dr. Greeley passed away in 2011 at age 72.”

There’s no mention of who he liked to sleep with.


28 posted on 03/13/2024 1:02:49 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (There will be a celebration in January 2025, either with champagne or with “hardware)
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To: plain talk

Seeking to communicate with potential highly technologically advanced and potentially hostile aliens is not just bad policy.

It is totally and completely insane.


29 posted on 03/13/2024 1:09:24 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Red Badger

“What if ‘water’ is a poison to ‘THEM’?...................”

Like the silly movie “Signs?”

What is the likely hood that an advanced civilization that can transverse light years wouldn’t have the technology to know that most of this planet is covered with water. Seems they would stay away.


30 posted on 03/13/2024 1:16:42 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: imabadboy99

The “fag” is Ron Greely. Planetary scientist. I can forgive you for being incredulous with something NASA would put on a plaque. I was expecting it to be a tranny black Muslim.


31 posted on 03/13/2024 1:20:08 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: cgbg
It's a stupid idea.

The left exaggerates and continues to reminds us of what happened with colonialism and Christopher Columbus.

If they really believed their own lies they would not be so trusting of advanced aliens.


32 posted on 03/13/2024 1:27:05 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk

If you contact an advanced technological civilization with any hostility at all the best possible outcome is they conclude homo sapiens is so stupid they should be avoided.


33 posted on 03/13/2024 1:40:56 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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The spacecraft is a pig. It weighs almost double what the Juno spacecraft does. For anybody interested, here are some stats about the mission..

https://europa.nasa.gov/spacecraft/meet-europa-clipper/


34 posted on 03/13/2024 1:50:26 PM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: Red Badger

too bad the aliens cannot read cursive.


35 posted on 03/13/2024 1:56:24 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Red Badger

That so-called message will confuse even the smartest alien, who, quite naturally, will conclude the pictured Head that sent it is either senile or just plain stupid.

Later, they will make a science fiction movie about the Heads’ planet which will end with a message saying, “All these worlds are your except the Head World. Any attempt to trespass and you will be dissolved!”


36 posted on 03/13/2024 2:02:22 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: cgbg

see #36


37 posted on 03/13/2024 2:03:00 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Red Badger

“The Congress Shall Make No Law.”


38 posted on 03/13/2024 2:05:58 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: Red Badger

Well. If folks want to waste money and effort, that is one way to do it.


39 posted on 03/13/2024 3:01:43 PM PDT by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: Red Badger

Klaatu and Gort are not amused………


40 posted on 03/13/2024 3:19:00 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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