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Saturday, January 30, 2010



The cornerstone of Washington National Cathedral was laid by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907. 93 years later, this stained glass window was installed by President Bill Clinton in April 2000. The final stained glass window, the one that completed the cathedral nearly a century in the making, depicts the exploration of space, something unthinkable when the cathedral's construction was begun. The space window can be found approximately 1/3 of the way up, on the right hand side when facing the high altar. The blue dot at the center of the crimson disk is a piece of the moon.

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Why "A Message From Earth"?

In 1979, Voyager I launched to the outer limits of the solar system and beyond. It carried onboard a gold plated disk for the reference of any intelligent life that found it to learn about earth. The disk contained images of the human figure, greetings in 55 languages, 115 sounds from nature, 90 minutes of music from a variety of cultures and eras, along with a greeting from the President of the United States and Secretary General of the United Nations. These are the only relics of human civilization outside the solar system.

Like Voyager, this record here beams elements of this life into the digital ether. Who will find it? What meaning will it have to them? I hope if the one who finds it is you, this record will have meaning to you of some sort.