FINAL POST of the year... Just thought I’d close out 2009 with another Hello From Earth and Sent Forever update. As of 7 PM California time tonight (12 PM Sydney time on Friday, January 1), it will be eighteen weeks since a radio signal containing 25,878 goodwill text messages—including one by me—was transmitted to the exoplanet Gliese 581d from a giant NASA antenna in Australia. The signal will be 2 trillion miles (3.2 trillion kilometers) from Earth. Awesome. The Sent Forever signal that was transmitted from the United Kingdom at 8:07 PM (California time) on October 5 is now 1.4 trillion miles (2.2 trillion kilometers) from Earth as of this typing. That is all. Happy New Years Eve, everyone!
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