SETI is the acronym for Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence. www.SETI.org Explain the diagrams on the gold record above please, without doing any research at all. It was sent into space in 1977 by NASA in collaboration with SETI, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence, as part of the Voyager 1 Program, which cost some $254,000,000. Was that a prudent use of American tax dollars? After more than 60 years of considerable scientific research, SETI, established in 1959, says, "Nothing yet. More funding please!" Please read the hieroglyphics above. You can't? Nobody else could either, until the Rosetta Stone was found. It has Egyptian hieroglyphics at the top, Demotic text in the middle and ancient Greek at the bottom. It was discovered in July, 1799 by French officer Pierre-François Bouchard near the town of Rashid, Egypt. If humans couldn't even understand the language of other humans, how could we possibly hope to learn communications of ext...