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TIL the LAGEOS Satellite, in stable medium Earth orbit, contains a plaque (designed by Carl Sagan) of various binary numbers, a map of Earth's continents (1974), among other info. Intended to be message to future humanity, 8.4 million years from now, when the satellite re-enters Earth's atmosphere

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