We are mankind, and we've gone to the moon and beyond. NASA is sending sapphire discs to the moon encrypted with some of out greatest accomplishments, just in cast there is someone out there.
The project is titled "Sanctuary on the Moon," and will include samples of how far we've come in the fields of mathematics, culture, art, science and paleontology. They will also feature genomes of a man and a woman. Schematics for the Saturn 5 rocket will show them how we got information to the moon.
They will feature artwork by Leonardo da Vinci and Vincent can Gogh.
Retired Space Shuttle Astronaut Clayton Anderson, now president and CEO of the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, says it's not the first time the U.S. has done this. "very similar to what we did when we went to the moon back in the '70's," he tells KTRH News. "It's to provide information if there is someone out there that we share with them where were come from."
Some of the smartest and richest people on planet Earth are open to the thought of other beings. "When a guy like Elon Musk is talking about becoming an interplanetary species, what happens when you do meet those people with green skin and big black eyes? What can we share with them and maybe them with us?"
NASA says the curated repository of human knowledge being sent to the moon will inspire earthbound human for generations to come.
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