Send Your Name to Pluto - Deadline soon!

[hank]

Click here to send your name to Pluto (and beyond) aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, scheduled for launch in January. Don't wait; you only have until September 15 to sign up.

- Hank

[BrainDead]

Hey, thanks for that link Hank...

Was interesting to say the least. I certainly won't mind if my name floats
around the Universe for eternity.

Refreshing idea...

[WildMoon]

The Universe shall know my name and revere it! Muahahahahahahahahahaha...errrrr...ahem. I sent my real name, user name (WildMoon)(My username has a lot of legacy to it, this website is not the first time I've used it), and a friend's name.

[PlutonianEmpire]

I've already posted my name on it months ago.

[hank]

WildMoon, I actually had you in mind when I posted this reminder. I haven't forgotten once being, as you are now, young and exuberant about exploring the cosmos. Remember me when you see those first close-up images of Pluto in 2015.

- Hank

[WildMoon]

Thanks much!

Cheers to hank!

Don't worry-whenever I look at Pluto I'll know you're there, along with a gnome warlock named WildMoon, my friend Michelle, and me (Ryan).

[Scytale]

...well if I wanted my name to reach Pluto I would broadcast it with a UHF transmitter... it would reach there in about 4 hrs and 20 mins. Hell, it would reach Sirius by the time I turn 30. I'd like to see when "New Horizon" does that.

[Brendan]

I added my name. What speed will New Horizons be at when it is going into interstellar space? I read that it'll be at 11 km/s at closest encounter with Pluto. At that speed, it would take over 20,000 years to reach the inner Oort cloud at 50,000 AU away and over 40,000 years to get to the outer edge at 100,000 AU away.

I wonder what kind of cd they will use. They should use something that would last a long time like etched glass ones like the KEO project will use in their space time capulse that's designed to orbit Earth for 50,000 years before reentering. The KEO people said they exposed disks to the amount of radiation they would get in space in 50,000 years and they survived.

I wonder how long the disks would survive in the cosmic rays in interstellar space over hundreds of thousands of years to millions and billions of years and if they would survive long enough to be destroyed by proton decay or the big rip if those things ever happen.

[lostfisherman]

They certainly won't use the commercially available CDs, they degrade beyond use in the normal sunlight through an Earth based window (mine, actually).

Nearly 400,000 people, or hobbit fans or whatever have signed up, including me. Quite the space community.

[Spaceman Spiff]

No!!! Fools!!! It's an alien data mining exercise conspiracy!!! You'll all be spammed in 20,000 years time by every being in the galaxy!!! .

Spiff.