In 2005, NASA had a program that allowed you to enter your name to be placed on a CD-ROM that was to be put on the New Horizons probe to Pluto. I was able to look mine up and still see the certificate.
Anybody else remember putting their name into this?
https://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Learn/Interactives.php#Names-to-Pluto
7 Comments
finley@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 1y
I’ve done a few of these. It was pretty cool. One of the missions ended up on the bottom of the ocean however.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
hey there could be aliens down there too.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 1y
I'm not sure if I did it or not, but my name is common enough that it's in there multiple times...
GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
You shouldn't be giving your information to aliens. I don't even want to imagine who they'd sell your information to now.
TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org · 7 pts · 1y
"Hi, we are calling about your interstellar transport's extended warranty."
GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
Dammit!
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Yep. NASA did a similar thing for the Perseverance rover except, if I’m remembering correctly, they used some sort of nanotechnology wizardry to etch over 10 million names on computer chips.