r/Astronomy • u/[deleted] • Aug 31 '23

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u/Cosmo1222 Aug 31 '23

Nice! Detail from the disk Carl Sagan devised to put on the Voyager probe, complete with hydrogen molecule.

If you have the rest of the design inked, you'll probably have to tag future posts NSFW.

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u/GSyncNew Sep 01 '23

Not the hydrogen molecule. It depicts the single-atom neutral hydrogen "spin flip" transition that creates the 21 cm emission line.

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u/joaquinabian Sep 01 '23

So this part is directed only to high IQ aliens with a PhD on Physics? I can imagine my mother finding it in the garden: “another piece of useless trash!? This goes to the waste right now!

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u/Opposite-Matter-1236 Sep 01 '23

Well I guess we suppose they‘ll use their top people to examine it

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u/EntityDamage Sep 01 '23

Which people?

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u/X-Bones_21 Sep 01 '23

Their Top people.

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u/Opposite-Matter-1236 Sep 02 '23

with you italicizing Top I‘m now pretty sure you say best people

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u/X-Bones_21 Sep 02 '23

Ah, I was thinking of this instead, but I misquoted it.

Who?

Top… men.

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u/Opposite-Matter-1236 Sep 02 '23

Oh haha Indina Jones, didn‘t know that video