The Interstellar Message Plaques, affixed to our tiny Pioneers and Voyagers as they cruise toward the boundaries of nearby interstellar space, are messages to the far future. They have been compared to letters sealed in bottles and dropped in the ocean, in the hope that they might be retrieved and read in distant climes, on far shores.
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(2007). Art or Science?. In: Living Off the Land in Space. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68316-4_14
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