Voyager 1 was launched 40 years ago this September 5. Since then, the space probe has travelled an astonishing distance, leaving the Solar System in August 2012 and entering interstellar space. It is easily the furthest any man-made item has ever been from Earth.
To celebrate this astonishing achievement, and the probe's 40th year in space, NASA decided to run a fun little competition. They asked for messages from the public, one of which they will choose to beam up to the probe on September 5.
The probe already contains a golden record, filled with sounds and images from Earth, intended to tell any extraterrestrial life (or future humans) that may find the probe about life on our planet. The message from this competition will be added to this.
The public started sending in their messages and, well, you all know where this is going.
Classic flat-Earth jokes were told.
And Star Wars jokes.
People didn't even use the full 60 characters available to them.
As well as some questionable entries, there were some great entries in there too.
There was also a sweet message from the Cassini team.
But mostly, overwhelmingly even, people just wanted to see nudes.
Run, Voyager. Don't look back.
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