Mars landerLanding live!

Anyone else think that its funny that we strapped a DVD onto the Lander?
Attached to the deck of the lander is "The Phoenix DVD",[37] compiled by the Planetary Society. The disc contains Visions of Mars,[38] a multimedia collection of literature and art about the Red Planet. Works include the text of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (and its infamous radio broadcast by Orson Welles), Percival Lowell's Mars as the Abode of Life with a map of his proposed canals, Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, and Kim Stanley Robinson's Green Mars. There are also messages directly addressed to future Martian visitors or settlers from, among others, Carl Sagan and Arthur C. Clarke. In the Fall of 2006, The Planetary Society collected a quarter million names submitted through the internet and placed them on the disc, which claims, on the front, to be "the first library on Mars".
The Phoenix DVD is made of a special silica glass[39] designed to withstand the Martian environment, lasting for hundreds (if not thousands) of years on the surface while it awaits discoverers.
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makes a lot more sense than that plate the put on Voyager telling everyone where to find us.

I think it would be kind of cool, 200 years from now, for some human digging in the arctic to find that.

It would be REALLY funny if they had strapped an HD-DVD to it, and then found out about Blueray. :)
 
it would have been cooler if it was actual live video instead of a computer animated representation. but still interesting, nonetheless.
 
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