Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

6 - Rarities, Curiosities And Speculations
measuring 6 inches by 12 inches by % inch should be placed in the ship so that
extra-terrestrial intelligences that might encounter Pioneer F could extract information
from it. (Fig. 65.)
Fig. 65. This is the gold and aluminum plaque which Pioneer F took with it as a message
to alien intelligences on its journey of 9,461 billion kilometers. Carl Sagan and Frank
Drake worked out a "cosmic" script.
The text of the message could not be written in any of the languages known to us,
because it is 100 per cent certain that it would not be understood. So Sagan and Drake
developed a sign language which in their view ought to be intelligible to all thinking
beings.
What should the plaque's message be? It should say where Pioneer F came from; who
sent Pioneer F out into space; when it was launched and what its home planet was,
among other things. At the foot of the plaque there is a picture of the sun and its nine