The eclectic range of artefacts and ‘messages’ we dispatch into the vast expanse of space may become one of the most enduring remnants of our present civilization, but how does his protracted legacy adequately document the plurality of societal values and common, cultural heritage on our heterogeneous world? For decades now, this rendition of the egalitarian principle has been explored by the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence community in order to draft theoretical responses to ‘who speaks for Earth?’ for hypothetical extra-terrestrial communication strategies. However, besides the moral, ethical and democratic advancements made by this particular enterprise, there remains little practical exemplars of implementing this garnered knowledge into other experimental elements that could function as mutual emissaries of Earth; physical artefacts that could provide accessible details about our present world for future archaeological observations by our space-faring progeny, potential visiting extrasolar denizens or even for posterity. While some initiatives have been founded to investigate this enduring dilemma of humanity over the last half-century, there are very few comparative studies in regards to how these objects, time capsules and transmission events collectively disseminate content about the aggregate of our species and the Earth system it inhabits. This catalogue, assembled for extended study as part of the Beyond the Earth foundation, is intended as an initial, dialogic step towards evaluating such a ‘profile of humanity’. This investigation will endeavour to collate all cultural resources that can presently be garnered from spacecraft (non-mission orientated, cultural material that conveys an impression of Earth) and non-terrestrial transmissions (electromagnetic signals that are intentionally aimed off-world to embody humanities’ evolving, philosophical identity) in the expanse beyond our planetary borders in order to cross-analyse how we presently illustrate the diversity of our planet before, subsequently, deducing how we could appropriately depict our collective human civilization [and biosphere] within deep space and cosmic time.

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人类概况：大气层外地球居民的文化特征

我们向浩瀚太空发送的不拘一格的手工艺品和“信息”可能会成为我们当前文明中最持久的遗迹之一，但他的长期遗产如何充分记录了我们人类社会价值观的多元化和共同的文化遗产异质世界？几十年来，寻找地外智能社区一直在探索这种对平等主义原则的演绎，以起草对“谁为地球说话？”的理论回应。用于假设的地外通信策略。然而，除了这一特定企业在道德、伦理和民主方面取得的进步外，几乎没有将这些获得的知识应用到其他可以作为地球共同使者的实验元素中的实际范例；物理人工制品可以为我们的太空后代，潜在的来访的太阳系外居民甚至后代提供有关我们当前世界的可访问细节，以供将来进行考古观察。尽管已经建立了一些倡议来调查过去半个世纪以来人类的这一持久困境，但关于这些物体、时间胶囊和传播事件如何共同传播关于我们物种和地球的总体内容的比较研究却很少它所在的系统。本目录，作为扩展研究的一部分而汇编 尽管已经建立了一些倡议来调查过去半个世纪以来人类的这一持久困境，但关于这些物体、时间胶囊和传播事件如何共同传播关于我们物种和地球的总体内容的比较研究却很少它所在的系统。本目录，作为扩展研究的一部分而汇编 尽管已经建立了一些倡议来调查过去半个世纪以来人类的这一持久困境，但关于这些物体、时间胶囊和传播事件如何共同传播关于我们物种和地球的总体内容的比较研究却很少它所在的系统。本目录，作为扩展研究的一部分而汇编超越地球基金会，旨在作为评估这种“人类概况”的初始对话步骤。这项调查将努力整理目前可以从航天器（非任务导向的、传达地球印象的文化材料）和非地面传输（故意针对地球外以体现人文学科的电磁信号）获得的所有文化资源在我们星球边界之外的广阔范围内不断发展的哲学身份），以交叉分析我们目前如何说明我们星球的多样性，然后推断我们如何在深空和宇宙中恰当地描绘我们的集体人类文明[和生物圈]时间。