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Pioneer Plaque: Sagan designed infographic
The Carl Sagan-designed golden record (“Pioneer Plaque”) sent on 1970s Pioneer spacecraft is today considered an infographic. (An infographic intended to be read by space aliens. Which means that, continuing our IG series on data visualization, you can’t get much more far out that this visual.) The golden-plated engraving is designed to survive a billion years in space, quite a feet given that the Earth itself will be very different in a billion years (and was extremely different 1 billion years ago). The Pioneer Plaque infographic was designed by Carl Sagan and drawn by Sagan’s then wife, an artist. It includes anatomically-correct drawings of humans (cropped-off due to IG community standards where this was originally published :). For this, Sagan was accused of sending smut into interstellar space. Most of the information in the Pioneer Plaque references the atomic timing of a hydrogen, used elsewhere as a unit of measurement (the same throughout space, so the same to space aliens).… Read the restKardashev scale: information, energy and civilization
This illustration of a future Dyson Swarm in #space connects many of our past photos to Carl Sagan. 🙂 Suppose we could do one of the endless “I’m just Sagan” meme photos here, but we are trying to be original. 🙂 In our last photo blog post, we talked about information theorist Claude Shannon and the links between data science (or information) and energy gradients (or entropy or thermodynamics). In 1964 Soviet (Russian) astronomer Nikolai Kardashev proposed the Kardashev scale. A Type I civilization could harness terrestrial power equivalent to 1960s Earth, Type II civilization an entire star, and a Type III civilization the energy output of an entire galaxy. Kardashev was expanding on earlier work by Leslie White who attempted to use a similar system to classify ancient human civilizations (thus connecting this photo with our very first photo on the Singularity and math models of ancient human societies). Carl Sagan modified this scale to interpolate between the different values and created a decimal system.… Read the restVery Large Array (“looks” like SETI, but is it?)
This is Nasa’s Very Large Array (VLA). This “looks” like SETI, but isn’t actually, as we’ll explain. Frustrated by the recent lack of intelligent life here on Earth (as evidenced by recent news stories — google late January 2015 if you’re reading this post in the future), we’re again looking towards the stars. This is Nasa’s Very Large Array, a set of radio telescopes that are the “go to” image everyone associates with SETI (The Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence). Ironically, this array is not used for SETI at all. (The array just looks cool and the media uses it as “SETI” images. More evidence of lack of intelligent life on Earth, we guess. 🙂 Obviously the Drake equation will need to be revised given Earth’s recent loss of status on the intelligent life front this month. 🙂 This telescope array is from the 1970s in Socorro, NM, and may be outdated.… Read the restIOT Internet toilet senses disease (and talks?)
We promised to return to Earth after our previous photo post discussing 3,000-year-old Chinese sunspot observations and catastrophic space weather. How else could we do this other than another important Asian trend that we missed: Internet-connected toilets. Don’t laugh, this isn’t a Google April Fools joke (although Google reportedly has installed an earlier non-IOT model of these “advanced” toilets by the same manufacturer, Toto of Japan, in their offices). IOT Internet toilets actually make a lot of sense. These Japanese units from Toto can automatically detect disease via blood glucose, blood pressure, and BMI sensors. They can transmit this health information via WiFi. As they say in startup world, this is obviously a billion dollar idea. All of this can then be integrated with something like Apple’s HealthKit. Thus, they can be integrated with the rest of iOS. So, in the not to distant future, your toilet should be able to talk to you via Apple Siri.… Read the restRecent Comments
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