I have an idea on what we should do with old spaceships and satellites. Instead of bringing them back down to the Earth and scrapping them, I think we should put messages on them and send them back into space towards a solar system (or any random trajectory that wouldn't cause it to collide with any natural or artificial object). This is similar to the Pioneer and Voyager programs, with the exception that the Pioneer and Voyager programs used newly constructed spaceships, instead of old ones that would be scrapped. Such a system is a great idea since it would help us make contact with one or more alien civilizations. That being said, if an alien civilization (or civilizations) came across one or more of our old ships and satellites (that are carrying messages), they could learn about our people and perhaps even make (first) contact with our species. I see no disadvantages to this suggestion of mine, save for us not getting the little bit of scrap metal we would back (and the possibility of the aliens being hostile and enslaving or killing us, however that is highly unlikely since they would most likely be peaceful since they are so technologically advanced, and we have done this before with both radio and material messages before and nothing bad happened). I also believe that we should send out more non-material messages (radio, as well as others). It is not a commonly known fact, but we have only sent out a …
John A commented: Why don't you just go crawl into a hole somewhere and die. -4
ahihihi... commented: :) +1
thoughtcoder commented: Aren't you special. +0
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jbennet commented: have some rep back i think its a valid point +36