"Stegozor" <stegozor@removethis.altern.org.invalid> wrote in message 
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You can find the Planetary Society's petition on :
http://www.planetary.org/voyager_hubble/index.html

Of course, they also explain why they think keeping these probes working 
is a good idea. Non-US citizens (like me :) can also sign it.


Sorry if this post is off-topic here, but as there already were 
discussions about Voyagers probes on alt.sci.seti (subject : Voyager 
probes in funding crisis) and as I believe some people here are also 
interested by these probes, I thought that posting this message could be 
acceptable.

PS : Crosspost to news:sci.astro.seti , fu2 to news:alt.sci.seti

Were the 'golden' discs created because that was the best technology at the 
time or someother reason? i.e. if the same project was launched today, would 
they still use a copper record, or cd, or high capacity hdd, or what?