Thanks to the album that Ismael Serrano has released on September 11, I have learned about the project 30 years ago. I'm talking about the Voyager probes launched by NASA into space. According to the designers of this project, it will take 74,500 years – now 30 less – to reach the closest star to our solar system.
Wrapped in a gold disc embedded in probes, sound images that seem to reflect life and culture on Earth are traveling ad infinitum. The target? Well, let's tell them about us through the cosmos. In any case, the content has aroused my curiosity, that is, the planetary representation of all who decided by who and by what: 115 images related to nature, greetings in 55 languages, a musical selection of different eras... and, just in case, messages –then– from the president of the United States, Carter and –then– from the president of the UN, Waldheim.
I didn't think I'd see myself in such a mess, but you won't deny me that the apocalypse has its charm too, right? I'm already beginning to imagine the days of the planet's sand, the world referendums: Beethoven or Mozart; Moliere or Cervantes – whose place is certified by Shakespeare –; Imaz or Egibar?