Wired: In Billions of Years, Aliens Will Find These Photos in a Dead Satellite

November 30, 2012

Of all the images that have ever been made, would you be able to select just 100 to represent our species and human achievement? Trevor Paglen’s Last Pictures is a project to do not only that, but also launch those images into geosynchronous orbit around Earth – all so that long after humans are gone, any space-wanderer will be able to fathom what humanity was all about.

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From ScienceMag.org a discussion of the science process in the creation of Last Pictures
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