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33 years ago, on the 5th September 1977, Voyager 1 embarked on its journey to the outer planets. It became the most distant human-made object - now about 115 AE far away from the Sun -, and together with its twin spacecraft Voyager 2 (launched on 20 August 1977), it opened up the outer regions of the Solar System. They are heading  further into interstellar space.

The Voyagers not only did - and still do! - wonderful science, they are also carrying the famous Golden Record, and 

E.T are you out there? is a campaign of "Faces from Earth" project to introduce the concept of possible extraterrestrial life and interstellar messages to school students. The campaign introduced the questions to students: "what if there is extraterrestrial life out there?, what would we say to a hypothetical E.T.?".

It was participated by school student groups in five countries; Hungary, Germany, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Ukraine during May 2010.

Here is the brief report on the Germany event which I organized. It took place on 19 May 2010 in Molfsee, close to Kiel.

Inspired at least partly by the invitation to the coming Space Tweep Movie Night, this is a personal note to my bio here at SpaceTweeps - and the introduction of two of my projects, One kilo message and Mosaic Earth, which are part of the Faces from Earth framework.

I remember a wonderful starry night at Lake Balaton in Hungary, some forty years ago in my childhood. In those times street lights was much more sparse in the evening than today, even on such holiday locations like the Balaton. We watched an open air movie and were on the way back to our vacation home - I forgot the movie but not the starry night with its blinking jewels.