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we launched a campaign called message to

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Voyager which was inspired by the

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uplifting messages on voyagers golden

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records so we asked you to submit

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messages of goodwill that we took and

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selected the top ones and put out to a

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vote these had to be short missions

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short messages no more than 60

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characters so we're gonna reveal today

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what you chose us the winning message

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and send that all the way out towards

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Voyager 1 in interstellar space oh who

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better to help us send today's message

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to Voyager than Captain Kirk that's

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right William Shatner is with us in

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Mission Control today what an honor I'm

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so pleased to be here it's a magical

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place JPL and this is a magical moment

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to send a message to Voyager

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and once it reaches Voyager it keeps

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going so it's like an advance man voyage

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you're coming wide you're coming you

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know to all the little green people out

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there that's right it's pretty exciting

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can't wait to see or hear maybe and some

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years from here if anybody says hello

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back to it wouldn't that be something

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amazing so also here with us today is

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DSN command engineer Annabel Kennedy and

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she's gonna be ready to send the message

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on your command she's gonna press the

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button that's right so this message was

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composed by some individuals that was

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chosen by committee

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once all the attempts to to show us to

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give us a message there was 30,000 or

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something like that's right 30,000

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people sometimes people communicated and

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this was winnow down to ten and now one

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of the ten has been chosen and you're

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going to give me the envelope and I've

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done this on award show they are below

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please and we read the message and

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Annabel hmm we'll press the button and

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the message will go out to Voyager to

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I am so excited I wonder what their what

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their what they wanted us to say I

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wonder only what there's less than 60

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characters that's a half a half a tweet

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that's right it's not a lot of space in

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order to put in a really up without a

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lot of space for a larger perfect yeah

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all right so now I'm going to open it up

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and all of her Jenkins

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all of her Jenkins is the message that's

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been selected and this is Annabel this

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is the message am I going to read it out

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yeah let's have you read it

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we offer friendship across the stars you

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are not alone it's fantastic what a

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great message by Oliver Jenkins I love

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that are you gonna send it out now I am

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ready to send it are the hailing

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frequencies for the Trekkies okay I'm an

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engineer animal Kennedy send the message

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on your command and we are active on

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three two one active and we are

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[Applause]

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delighted I mean when you think of the

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mysterious void that's out there and

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what little we know and we're sending a

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message out and it goes into the Stars

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it goes we don't know how long that'll

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take how long will that take

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I know I don't mean how long I mean this

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this electrical impulse traveling just

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be like goes does it ever decay it can't

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it will spread out eventually over many

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many many many light-years yes but

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eventually if there's something out

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there with that with a big enough

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antenna that can listen how who knows

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yeah out there you don't need big

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antennas they have little so it spreads

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out and goes forever

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it just goes forever because it's a

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light it's a photon it's radio signals

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that are going out electromagnetic

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frequencies yeah right but it's not a

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photon okay I am so happy thank you it's