Is street art being challenged by Galaxy Art? Trevor Paglen is an American artist, geographer and author who had a crazy idea: “experimental geography.” In the past five years he picked 100 images and saved them onto a space-bound time capsule to be sent out in the galaxy, wondering: “Will aliens see your Paul Klee?”

The communication satellite EchoStarXVI will be launched into space from Kazakhstan this October.  It will reach an eventual orbit of about 24,000 miles above the equator. The satellite will have a silicon disk covered in a gold-plated aluminum jacket nano-etched (What?). Basically, a disc will be sent from the Earth with 100 images into the nothingness of the galaxy in the hope that a foreign life form will one day find it. Hopefully, aliens will use it as a historical informant and analyze those artifacts like we once analyzed  cave drawings in Lascaux, France. The satellite’s lifespan is approximately five billion years—  The Last Pictures might just be the last ones.

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