In 2005, NASA had a program that allowed you to enter your name to be placed on a CD-ROM that was to be put on the New Horizons probe to Pluto. I was able to look mine up and still see the certificate.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’ve done a few of these. It was pretty cool. One of the missions ended up on the bottom of the ocean however.

[–] acosmichippo 1 points 1 week ago

hey there could be aliens down there too.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 3 points 1 week ago

Yep. NASA did a similar thing for the Perseverance rover except, if I’m remembering correctly, they used some sort of nanotechnology wizardry to etch over 10 million names on computer chips.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure if I did it or not, but my name is common enough that it's in there multiple times...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You shouldn't be giving your information to aliens. I don't even want to imagine who they'd sell your information to now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Hi, we are calling about your interstellar transport's extended warranty."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Dammit!