https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/weird-stuff-sent-to-space
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Until recently, no one had really put together a full picture of what humans have sent off-Earth with intent of communicating something about life on this planet. So Paul Quast, director of the Beyond the Earth Foundation, set out to catalogue every cultural artifact and intentional message humans have launched or beamed into space. Published in the International Journal of Astrobiology, his accounting is (as far as he knows) the first attempt at simply documenting what we’re sending out there—a first step toward piecing together a complete sense of what we’re signaling about our world.
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a small selection of the other objects and transmissions we’ve sent to space includes:
A 15-minute concert performed on a theremin
A version of “Across the Universe,” plus a message from Paul McCartney—“Send my love to the aliens”
An invitation, in Klingon, to attend a performance (on Earth) of a Klingon opera
A video compilation of Romanian gymnasts from 2006
An advertisement for Doritos
DNA from Stephen Colbert, encoded on a microchip
A picture of rice dumplings and tea
A copy of Rukhnama, a book written by a former president of Turkmenistan
Diamonds...
