A service that lets you send your personal message into deep space — and tracks exactly where it is in the universe for the next billion years

Posted by extraterrestrial007@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 5 comments

I know this sounds insane but hear me out.

Voyager has been travelling since 1977 with a golden record on board — voices, music, sounds of Earth. It’s now 24 billion km away and still going. Forever.

Nobody asked us if we wanted to be on it. They just sent it.

So I started thinking — what if anyone could send their own message? Not a rocket. Just a real radio signal beamed into deep space. At the speed of light. And then you could actually watch it — a live tracker showing exactly where your signal is right now, zooming out past the Milky Way, seeing where it’ll be in a million years. A billion years.

I genuinely believe someone should build this. Maybe I will.

Would you send a message? And if so — what would you say?

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Rejse617@reddit

Ok I think this is a neat idea. You would need a very directional antenna or else geometric spreading would make your signal drop to background noise quickly.

I’d say just pick a digital mode like PSK31 and encode the message that way. The reality is no one will ever receive the message anyway, let alone decode it, so you can use whatever you like. Despite that, I do think it would be really cool to send a message and then see where it is in relation to the solar system at first, and then leaving. After that it would get boring probably.

Anyway just some thoughts. I like the idea! You just need the transmitter and a bit of equipment, and the software is all free

A service that lets you send your personal message into deep space — and tracks exactly where it is in the universe for the next billion years

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