I admit I was being overly harsh towards our friend mother Russia. Nonetheless you see how I feel about the Russian space programs. To me it's like the United African space program ***excluding South Africa. Millions of children running around homeless and hungry, and the leader of your country is pouring billions into primitive science..............
What did we launch into space with Voyager?
Records imply sounds and those carried by Voyager carried a selection of tunes that is now used for NPR bumper music, wildlife noises, and kiddies giving the usual vapid greetings. But in addition, the record also includes photographs with a remarkable emphasis on biology , a disturbing fascination with reproduction that reflects a lot of hidden assumptions about biology, and National Geographic pictorials; all formatted for audio disks.
Have they lost their minds.................

"All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and
childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have."


To be fair we have homeless and hungry too, but nothing like Russia.

NASA is developing one that will be pushed by a laser.