If you don’t know what the Pioneer plaque is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_pla…
Any wild theories as to what will happen to Pioneer 10 and 11 in the far off future? What significance will that little gold plated plaque bring about to the extraterrestials lucky enough to happen upon it?
Excluding of course the bad turn of luck where we give our address to hostile aliens vying to take our gold, as in “Battlefield Earth”.
Frankly, I think the secrets of the plaque are way too complicate for the average galactic citizen to figure out, and most likely one of the Pioneer twins will crash land on alien farmer’s field and the plaque will be used as a cutting board or defaced as a sign board for the farmer’s stall on market fair day.
Well, we sent it.
It is too far fetched to imagine that some alien would read it. It reflects our own ‘infantile’ imagination and incomprehension in such things. We need to grow up.
In will be ablated to nothing over million of years. Or more likely we’ll go and get it back some time in the future.