# Send your name into space! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 23, 2008, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/send-your-name-into-space/453883 "2008-06-23T04:19:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/send-your-name-into-space/453883/1 "2008-06-23T04:19:15Z")
In February 2009, NASA will launch the [Kepler mission](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_Mission#Mission_details) to locate terrestrial planets in our galaxy. The nearly 2300lb spacecraft will carry a DVD aboard with the names of well-wishers and their statements of up to 500 words on why they think the mission is important. You can add your name and statement [on this website](http://namesinspace.seti.org/) before November 1, 2008 to be included on the DVD aboard the Kepler spacecraft, to be launched into a heliocentric orbit aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. Let’s see how many Dopers we can get immortalized in space! ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/send-your-name-into-space/453883/2 "2008-06-23T06:29:10Z")
By Carl Sagan’s Maroon Turtleneck, I shall mark my name, indelible, amongst the stars! ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/send-your-name-into-space/453883/3 "2008-06-23T07:29:40Z")
Cool! I got my certificate. Someday, in a gazillion years, someone might find it and read it! My message: The law of averages suggests that at some point in time, someone, somewhere, other than inhabitants of earth, might be able to interpret what they find out in space. We like to think these “aliens” have answers to all of our problems, but most likely, they too will be searching for answers. So, here are some answers: Human sexual contact is very pleasurable, and impossible to describe in words. Whatever you like to do most, multiply that by 100 and you have the feeling of sex. This may explain why the earth became overrun with people and eventually died. People here still pray to gods…they seem to think it helps. I guess whoever finds this, and discovers earth no longer exists, will be able to say, “Well, that didn’t go well for them.” Oh, and one last thing - if you find this DVD and the earth no longer exists, you didn’t miss much. We weren’t particularly smart - we searched for intelligent life, but couldn’t even communicate with other species on our planet! How dumb was that?! Thanks for stopping by. Next rest stop is 17 galaxies away. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/send-your-name-into-space/453883/4 "2008-06-23T08:42:57Z")
A DVD??? that thing won´t last the pass of eons. Now when they attach to a space probe a 30 ton stone disc engraved with names I´ll sign up. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/send-your-name-into-space/453883/5 "2008-06-23T10:29:37Z")
Hello Aliens… Bring me back a sandwich! ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/send-your-name-into-space/453883/6 "2008-06-23T12:38:57Z")
There’s also a few days left to send your name to the moon on the [Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter](http://planetary.org/special/messages/lro.html). Over the last few years I’ve put my niece and nephew’s names on a few spacecraft: They’re on the way to Pluto with the New Horizons spacecraft They’re orbiting the Moon on the Kaguya (SELENE) spacecraft They’ve discovered water on Mars with the Phoenix lander ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/send-your-name-into-space/453883/7 "2008-06-23T16:37:47Z")
My above post is what happens when I’m restless yet watching Cosmos on the Discovery Channel at 2:30 in the morning while reading the Dope. I want to write something profound yet witty and cynical, just in case hyper-advanced aliens have a thing for sarcasm, which I’m betting all advanced species must have in order to have survived so long. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/send-your-name-into-space/453883/8 "2008-06-23T20:39:42Z")
Whatever happened to gold records in space? Faster, cheaper, better my \*\*\*. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/send-your-name-into-space/453883/9 "2008-06-24T00:55:13Z")
[QUOTE=cmyk] I want to write something profound yet witty and cynical, just in case hyper-advanced aliens have a thing for sarcasm, which I’m betting all advanced species must have in order to have survived so long. [/QUOTE] On the other hand they may take offense at you puerile insolence and decide to blow up the Earth. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/send-your-name-into-space/453883/10 "2008-06-24T06:15:30Z")
[QUOTE=Ale] On the other hand they may take offense at you puerile insolence and decide to blow up the Earth. [/QUOTE] That’s a risk I’m willing to take.