By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou
The launch of the Voyager 1 satellite in September 1977 was one of NASA's most successful launches. 46 years have passed since then and it still travels and continues to have communication with the earth. It has already crossed the limits of the solar system and is now traveling in interstellar space. Now it is located 24 billion kilometers away from the earth. In 40,000 years at a speed of 60,000 kilometers per hour, it is estimated it will reach half the distance of the nearest star to us, Alpha Centauri. This satellite carries a golden CD disc with photos of the earth and life forms, music, scientific information and messages from leaders in 55 different languages, in case it encounters an "intelligent civilization in the Universe" (Vasilios Petrouleas, Physicist) on its course.
Scientists make a great effort to find some information about life and even about intelligent beings in the vast Universe and to come into contact with them. They are sending messages to the Universe and looking for some response from it, someone to hear a voice, someone to meet, and so far no one is listening. Science does its job and this is its job, to investigate the unknown elements of the cosmos that surrounds us.
