The Last Pictures | Creative Time

▻http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-010-1451-9_11
On the Critique of Scientific Reason de P. K. Feyerabend
Dans une note :

Carl Sagan, surely one of the most imaginative scientists alive warns us not to unduly restrict the possibilities of life, and he mentions various types of ‘chauvinism’ (oxygen-chauvinism: if a planet has no oxygen, then it is uninhabitable; temperature chauvinism: low temperatures such as those on Jupiter and high temperatures such as those on Venus make life impossible; carbon chauvinism: all biological systems are constructed of carbon compounds) which he regards as unwarranted (The Cosmic Connection, New York 1975, Ch. 6). He writes (page 179): “It is not a question of whether we are emotionally prepared in the long run to confront a message from the stars. It is whether we can develop a sense that beings with quite different evolutionary histories, beings who may look far different from us, even ‘monstrous’ may, nevertheless, be worthy of friendship and reverence, brotherhood and trust”. Still, in discussing the question whether the message on the plaque of Pioneer 10 will be comprehensible to extraterrestrial beings he says that “it is written in the only language we share with the recipients: science” (18; cf. p. 217: messages to extraterrestrial beings “will be based upon commonalities between the transmitting and the receiving civilization. Those commonalities are, of course, not any spoken or written language or any common, instinctual encoding in our genetic materials, but rather what we truly share in common — the universe around us, science and mathematics.”) In times of stress this belief in science and its temporary results may become a veritable maniac-making people disregard their lives for what they think to be the truth. Cf. Medvedev’s account of the Lysenko case.

#Plaque_de_pioneer
#Relativisme
#Feyerabend
#Épistémologie

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogPIvzhHaTE

▻http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/carl-sagan-ann-druyan

Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
Saturday, December 07, 1985

Lloyd Moss talks to Pulitzer-Prize-winning astronomer Dr. Carl Sagan and his wife, author Ann Druyan, about their ten-year collaboration and their upcoming book, Comet. They discuss the Voyager Interstellar Record Project and the collection of culture and music that was curated for it. They discuss the five musical selections which were culled from the twenty-seven works used in the Voyager project.

▻https://books.google.fr/books?hl=fr&lr=&id=Zq5DhnqLcJUC&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=plaque+de+pioneer&ots= Semiotics: The Basic. Par Daniel Chandler

Programme Pioneer: Plaque de Pioneer, Pioneer 10, Pioneer Venus, Anomalie Pioneer, Pioneer 11, Pioneer 4, Pioneer 5, Pioneer 3, Pioneer 0 ▻https://books.google.fr/books?id=VrOqcQAACAAJ&dq=plaque+de+pioneer&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAWoV

Pioneer 10 Plaque: 25th Anniversary 1958-1983 ▻https://books.google.fr/books?id=aNs6rgEACAAJ&dq=plaque+de+pioneer&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0CCgQ6AEwADgK

Symbols: A Universal Language par Joseph Piercy
▻https://books.google.fr/books?id=XRbdAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT130&dq=plaque+de+pioneer&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0CD4

Et un projet similaire de la même veine, plus récent (2012)
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EchoStar_XVI

The Creative Time was launched with EchoStar XVI into outer space an archival disc created by artist Trevor Paglen called The Last Pictures. Made of ultra-archival materials, the disc is expected to orbit the Earth for billions of years affixed to the exterior of the communications satellite. A silicon disc has one hundred photographs selected to represent modern human history.

▻http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-last-pictures-launches-with-echostar-xvi-satellite
The Last Pictures launches with EchoStar XVI satellite

►http://creativetime.org/projects/the-last-pictures

Since 1963, more than eight hundred spacecraft have been launched into geosynchronous orbit, forming a man-made ring of satellites around the Earth. These satellites are destined to become the longest-lasting artifacts of human civilization, quietly floating through space long after every trace of humanity has disappeared from the planet.
Trevor Paglen’s The Last Pictures is a project that marks one of these spacecraft with a visual record of our contemporary historical moment. Paglen spent five years interviewing scientists, artists, anthropologists, and philosophers to consider what such a cultural mark should be. Working with materials scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Paglen developed an artifact designed to last billions of years—an ultra-archival disc, micro-etched with one hundred photographs and encased in a gold-plated shell. In Fall 2012, the communications satellite EchoStar XVI will launch into geostationary orbit with the disc mounted to its anti-earth deck. While the satellite’s broadcast images are as fleeting as the light-speed radio waves they travel on, The Last Pictures will remain in outer space slowly circling the Earth until the Earth itself is no more.

#Echostar
#The_Last_Pictures

▻http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.gate3.inist.fr/doi/10.1002/2013EO400004/pdf
Nick Sagan Reflects on Voyager 1 and the Golden Record

© 2013. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.
Eos
, Vol. 94, No. 40, 1 October 2013
Nick Sagan Reflects on Voyager 1
and the Golden Record
When scientists confirmed on 12 September that NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft had entered
interstellar space (
Eos, 94
(39), 339, doi:10.1002/ 2013EO390003), the probe was acknowledged
as the first human- made object to travel into that realm. The probe and its twin, Voyager 2, each
carry a 12-inch gold- plated copper disk, known as the Golden Record.
The Golden Record is a time capsule containing images, music, and sounds from planet
Earth that were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by the late astronomer Carl Sagan.
The Golden Record includes greetings to the universe in 55 different languages. The greeting in
English was recorded by then 6-year-old Nick Sagan, son of Carl Sagan and NASA Pioneer
spacecraft plaque artist Linda Salzman.
When it was confirmed that Voyager 1 had entered interstellar space,
Eos
contacted Nick
Sagan, now 43 and a writer and producer, for his comments.

La Nasa met en ligne les messages de Voyager aux extraterrestres
▻http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/rue89-culture/2015/08/04/les-messages-voyager-extraterrestres-mis-ligne-nasa-260603

[C]omme le faisait remarquer l’un des membres du comité réuni par Sagan :
« Les chances que la plaque soit vue par un seul extraterrestre sont infinitésimales. Par contre, elle sera vue par des milliards de Terriens. Sa vraie fonction est donc d’en appeler à l’esprit humain et d’œuvrer à son expansion, et de faire de l’idée d’un contact avec une intelligence extraterrestre une expansion désirable de l’humanité. »