ONE LIGHT-YEAR...AGAIN! August 27 marked one year since the Hello From Earth signal (which contains 25,878 goodwill text messages—including one by me) was transmitted from NASA’s Deep Space Network in Australia to the exoplanet Gliese 581d 20 light-years away...and today, it has been 12 months since another message I typed was relayed into space via the Sent Forever website. I wanted to send another personal greeting to any extraterrestrial being out there (yes, I say that with a grin), but unfortunately, Sent Forever has been out of action since early this year because the webmasters were unable to renew their transmission license. Oh well.
All I’m wondering is...after the recent discovery of another potentially habitable world orbiting Gliese 581, will another Hello From Earth message be transmitted towards this red dwarf star sometime in the near future? We shall see. The current message already zooming through interstellar space still has 19 years to go before it reaches this intriguing solar system.
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