Global "Selfie" to Be Beamed to Outer Space

The crowd-sourced message will be uploaded to New Horizons spacecraft.

If you had the chance to send a message to aliens in outer space, what would you say? What would you tell them about life on Earth? How would you explain who we are?

These are not hypothetical questions.

This summer, you will get that chance to send a message to other worlds.

The content of the message will be determined by whomever wants to participate in the planet-wide project. The message itself will be transmitted sometime after New Horizons does a flyby of Pluto in 2015 and sends back the scientific data that it collects.

If all goes according to plan, New Horizons will become the fifth man-made object to travel beyond the solar system—after Pioneers 10 and 11 and Voyagers 1 and

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