Good Intuitive. Trends obvious, details available.
| Bad Lacking in presentation or data.
| Ugly Confusing, misleading or worse.
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Pioneer Plaque
by Eric Burgess, Carl Sagan, Frank Drake, Linda Salzman Sagan
Probably history's most challenging info design project: teach aliens about us.
Crammed our solar system's location, Earth's position and humans relative to
spacecraft in 3 index cards' worth of space.
The hyperfine transition of neutral hydrogen part is lost on me;
we'll just have to hope the recipients are smarter than me.
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Tufte's farcical Pioneer Plaque redesign suggests he finds the original pointless.
Despite his focus on the universality of gravity, he fails to offer any serious improvements on the original.
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Imagine a nerdier version of Genesis Chapter 5
plotted as a family tree of early U.S. Army computers.
A mind-numbingly boring list of acronyms and dates is transformed into an elucidating,
if utilitarian, picture of dynamic evolutionary history.
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