Myisha Nawar
Lunar Mission One- an ambitious British crowd funded project using public donations to fund a moon landing in 2024- has been gathering momentum ever since the desire to explore space started escalating. The question about how this mission would sum up human life in outer space has been creeping at the back of your minds for quite some time now. Space is already said to be full of cultural artifacts from space missions over the past six decades! Guess what? Space objects now include a tandoori kebab lamb chop! Let’s delve into it, shall we?
For starters, we have the Beatles song Across the Universe conveying the message, ‘Send my love to the aliens. All the best, Paul”. It is probably travelling across the universe at a speed of 186000 miles per second to reach North Star, Polaris (just about 431 light years away from the Earth. Not much, eh?). Wait, I am not done serving appetizers yet. We have Lego mini-figurines of Galileo and the Roman deities Jupiter and Juno followed by a quick sound recording of a kiss between a mother and a child.
Moving on. Let’s look at the entrees. A color photograph of the city of Oxford, a black and white diagram of human sex organs, a sound recording of a Shepherd herding sheep and a Buzz light-year all topped with a saxophone. Bon Appétit!
If you think all that was crazy, get this: 25,800 text messages from Australians were sent into space in a 2009 project called Hello from the Earth.
Ever feel clingy after sending more than one text to an unknown person?
Humankind can be like an overly attached girlfriend/boyfriend when it comes to Aliens!