[Lancey Howard]

Carrying identical plaques depicting a man and a woman, the atomic transition of hydrogen, and the location of our planet within the galaxy—a message to aliens

Oh great... we gave the alien invaders a road map to our planet?! Sheesh..

[fieldmarshaldj]

“Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would’ve hidden from it in terror.” ~~ Ming the Merciless

[TheThinker]

Oh great... we gave the alien invaders a road map to our planet?! Sheesh..

Funny, I thought the same thing. Those NASA people act too liberal at times, as if there's nothing out there in that big universe that could possibly hurt us.

[Thermalseeker]

Oh great... we gave the alien invaders a road map to our planet?! Sheesh..

The original road map was broadcast in August of 1945 with subsequent larger and larger maps broadcast over the following 20 odd years. If ET is relatively close by and was listening all doubt about our location was removed long before the Pioneer spacecraft were ever launched......

[PowderMonkey]

"Oh great... we gave the alien invaders a road map to our planet?! Sheesh.."

I prefer to think of it as defining restricted air space. A warning of sorts. "Warning. Naked taggers with upraised arms and 70s haircuts, scribbling things on spacecraft." A quick recon of Detroit or South Central LA will tell them to avoid this "'hood."

[Proud_texan]

"a road map to our planet"

It's no big deal, they already had crop circles.

[techcor]

Oh great... we gave the alien invaders a road map to our planet?! Sheesh..

Yeah, and a copy of the menu to the "All they can eat buffet".