{"id":139832,"date":"2022-05-26T09:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T14:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/what-the-voyager-space-probes-can-teach-humanity-about-immortality-and-legacy-as-they-sail-through-space-for-trillions-of-years"},"modified":"2022-05-26T09:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T14:02:20","slug":"what-the-voyager-space-probes-can-teach-humanity-about-immortality-and-legacy-as-they-sail-through-space-for-trillions-of-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/what-the-voyager-space-probes-can-teach-humanity-about-immortality-and-legacy-as-they-sail-through-space-for-trillions-of-years","title":{"rendered":"What the Voyager space probes can teach humanity about immortality and legacy as they sail through space for trillions of years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-the-voyager-space-probes-can-teach-humanity-about-immortality-and-legacy-as-they-sail-through-space-for-trillions-of-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is now almost <a href=\"https:\/\/voyager.jpl.nasa.gov\/mission\/status\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth<\/a> in interstellar space. Both Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, carry little pieces of humanity in the form of their <a href=\"https:\/\/voyager.jpl.nasa.gov\/golden-record\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Golden Records<\/a>. These messages in a bottle include spoken greetings in 55 languages, sounds and images from nature, an album of recordings and images from numerous cultures, and a written message of welcome from Jimmy Carter, who was U.S. president <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/voyager-golden-records-40-years-later-real-audience-was-always-here-on-earth-79886\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">when the spacecraft left Earth in 1977<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Records were built to last a billion years in the environment of space, but in a recent analysis of the paths and perils these explorers may face, astronomers calculated that they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/predicting-voyager-golden-records-distant-future\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">could exist for trillions of years<\/a> without coming remotely close to any stars.<\/p>\n<p>Having spent my career in the field of <a href=\"https:\/\/sipa.fiu.edu\/people\/faculty\/religious-studies\/hurchingson.james.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">religion and science<\/a>, I\u2019ve thought a lot about how spiritual ideas intersect with technological achievements. The incredible longevity of the Voyager spacecraft presents a uniquely tangible entry point into exploring ideas of immortality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar space. Both Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, carry little pieces of humanity in the form of their Golden Records. These messages in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}