Who or what will we leave behind us?

[blackburn_stevie]

I've just been watching an antiques type of prog on the goggle box and it got me thinking. The past centuries have brought us Goliaths in all sorts of fields ranging from Leonardo da Vinci to Josiah Wedgwood via the House of Faberge. But what or who are we going to be remembered by?

Surely not Jedward, the London Eye or any recent winner of the Turner prize.

So who makes it in YOUR eyes?

[Anonymous]

well regardless of what may happen to the human race and to what artifacts we may leave behind, there are two that will serve  mankind for eon's they will never (in our life time return to earth.......clue) but will go forever forward (missing asteroids hopefully) into the unknown of interstellar space, the two probes voyager 1 & 2 carry photo's messages and all of our (as when launched) maths and physics with a diagram of how to find earth. these are our legacies because if mankind exterminates itself through nuclear bombing there will be nothing lest of our civilisation, apart from those two tiny craft which bears man kinds signature, and tells whoever finds them, humans are or were here.

that's what we will leave behind.

[kiss*my*pixel]

I would hope we have left behind a love for our planet - finally some Governments and other "governing bodies" have realised that this planet is not long for the world unless we start to take care of it. A little late, maybe, but better late than never.

If you're only talking art Stevie, then Banksy, Damien Hurst (don't like all of his stuff though).

Tracy Emin is a pile of ................ (IMO) but that's art - she may very well be considered  wonderful in a thousand years' time 😐   Lots of other artists mikght be worthy of mention, but I would hope that our generations might be remembered for greater things, other than artefacts.

We won't know what we've left behind really, unless there is a little shelf where we can all sit once we're dead and watch it unfold

[kiss*my*pixel]

"mikght"

Even inventing new languages, possibly 🙂

[lhasa.two]

Years ago i put new pennys in a plastic box and put them in the ground with a note saying what they were..I hope someone finds them in 200 to 300 years time and makes money on them..Im now going to bury a mobile phone ..Hope it still works in years to come..

You'll need to include the charger tommy... 😉

[cee-dee]

I've often wondered about the "how to find us" diagrams on the Voyager craft.

We see "the Stars" from the perspective of here on Earth.

When you're way out beyond our Solar System, how will those diagrams help locate us? Surely things will look vastly different from "out there"?

[Anonymous]

hi cd just do a 180 and keep going........................

[Anonymous]

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[blackburn_stevie]

I think I heard on QI where the scientist bods were discussing what material to put in a container that would be fired into space for future Alien types to find to give them an idea of what "Earthman" was like. Somebody suggested a CD player with a solar charger and some CDs by Beethoven. One of the other guys said, "Nah. That would just be showing off." . :^O

[Anonymous]

hi steve, all that and more is on the disc each probe carries. some say there is to much information, and some say nasa was wrong in letting earths (sun) position known.