In the past week, I’ve posted on Scientology and the artifacts accompanying the Pioneer 10 spacecraft. I had no reason to think that those two things were related, that Scientology might somehow be linked to Carl Sagan’s effort to share the legacy of mankind with the cosmos via gold-plated records. I was apparently wrong though. The two things are connected, in a way… I just received a cryptic message from someone who claims to have intimate knowledge of Scientology and attached to this person’s message were a series of photos which I’m told show gold disks created by high-ranking members of the religion for the purposes of conveying their message (about body thetans?) into the future. An odd little coincidence, don’t you think?

So, now I’m wondering, if I were to etch an image or a sound-filled groove into gold, what would it be? What’s the message that I’d want to live on into the future? What would I want the creatures of outer space to know about me, and about the Earth as it exists today? What would I want to share with the future simian rulers of this planet?