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Y'all need to stop watching so much T.V.

Soldent: The dog tag company must be in a dilemma. They want a product to appear useful (remember it's just a prank) but they are selling it to customers, most of whom probably don't even know how many planets there are. Borrowing pictures off the Pioneer plaque is the most practical way.

Of course we all agree, if a someone ever did get abducted, the abductors would likely know where to take them back to. However, if they handed the job over to an apprentice...
And if they had to be taken away, I'm sure they would end up in the cage for future biological experiments. Why waste fuel returning them?

Splarka: Sending an aged sample of radiactive material to NASA or JPL would be a waste of a good joke. They are not as gullible as some other organizations. Now if you sent it to a UFO researcher, you could create a whole new field of pseudo-science! And of course, NASA would be accused of a coverup. Oh the possibilities!

By the way Meagan. I don't have a TV. Haven't owned one for years.

We're really taking a shot in the dark if we assume that extraterrestrial life forms find things primarily by visual information, when even here on earth there are probably more organisms relying on chemical cues (scents, for example), gravitation, magnetism, temperature differentials, air or water currents, and other methods (surely including some we don't even know about) than those that are principally dependent on sight. And that's just on one small planet.

It does look as though the dog-tag designers have lost track of the Mediterranean Sea somewhere.
Besides, the way I read the map, it says I belong somewhere around Tennessee, when I'd really much rather be dropped off in the Riviera or Tahiti, or even Berlin.

Big Gary C- it's a combination of infrared/Kelvin, plus some Kirlian Bioauras. But, don't you worry about it. There's no such thing as extra-terrestrials. Be happy and consume

Obviously this keychain is from the future when Africa and Europe have drained the Med. and merged to form the most Kick-Ass country in the world, Afrope! When they finally invaded America in search of WMD's they became the sole surviving super-power on Earth. All hail our Afropian masters.

Captain Al said...

"Also, the fact that Uranus' rings, like its axis, are tilted almost 90 deg gives another clue about which solar system you originated from. So the 7th planet should be a circle with a vertical line through it. It's part of our cosmic fingerprint."

Shouldn't that be a circle with a "horizontal" line through it? That would then indicate that the 7th planet had the almost 90 degree tilt as opposed to a circle with a vertical line which would seem to indicate the norm. The line would represent the axis of rotation would it not? So it should be a horizontal line to indicate Uranus' radical alignment / rotation. So your maps might not get us home either? As long as they don't charge for shipping and handling though it might be fun trip!

MNJ, the line represents the orientation of the rings so it would be vertical.
Let's hope we never have to find out if it would get us home. The trip would be fun until you ended up in the galactic lost-and-found bin.

Mark-N-Jen: If it was going by the position of the rings in a visibility sense, then it would be as Captain Al said. Here's another thing: what defines up and down in space? From one angle Uranus might look like saturn, and the others look strange. Humans know what they are supposed to look like from our prespective, but finding home from this thing wouldn't be overly easy.

And that line with the people... damn. I'm going to end up somewhere in South america, I just know it

I agree with adding some sort of rings to the other gas giants, or at least Jupiter. Although Jupiters rings cannot be seen from Earth, they are visable when looking at Jupiter from the opposite side. The rings are mostly just dust particles and can be only seen when looking in the direction of the sun, rather than away from it the way we see Jupiter from Earth. It's much like being able to see the little dust particles floating around the air when looking directly at a light bulb. If the Aliens were in the outer solar system past Jupiter and looking towards the sun, they might get confused that there are no rings shown in the picture of Jupiter when they can clearly see rings. That is of course assuming that the aliens can see at all...

These have been around since the 80s. My mother has some.