posted on Nov, 5 2003 @ 11:49 PM
From what i read there were alot of groups that argued about the plaque on board.
Critics have argued that it may not be wise to show where the spacecraft originated, because malicious extraterrestrial intelligences could use the
information to find and attack the Earth. Dr. Sagan opposes this view, because it is highly unlikely that the message will be found in a near epoch.
Another point of criticism is that the message is too anthropocentric and too hard to understand. Almost none of the human scientists that were shown
the message was able to decode all of the message. It can be assumed that it will be even harder for extraterrestrial intelligences that do not share
our common knowledge.
According to Sagan (Murmurs of Earth, 1978, New York, ISBN 0679744444), there were many negative reactions to the plaque due to the fact that the
human beings were displayed naked. The Chicago Sun Times retouched its image to hide the genitals of the man and woman. The Los Angeles Times received
"angry letters" from readers which accused NASA of wasting taxpayer money to send "obscenities" into space.
Feminists complained that only the hand of the man was raised and not that of the woman.
Heres the disk:
and the otherside:
for info on the disk go here:
en.wikipedia.org...
and the plaque:
and heres info on the plaque:
en.wikipedia.org...
kinda reminds me of ancient egyptian hieroglyphics.