Subject: Re: Help save Voyager probes and Hubble
From: Martin 53N 1W
Date: 11/08/2005, 13:14
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

Zilva Zanga wrote:
[...]

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?

Why copper rather than gold?

More recent 'vanity messages' have been written to CDs attached to whatever space probe.

Regards,
Martin

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