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http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/What-Is-on-Voyagers-Golden-Record.html

 

One of the authors of the Golden Record also discusses where Voyager is at currently:

 

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Timothy-Ferris-on-Voyagers-Never-Ending-Journey.html?onsite_source=relatedarticles&onsite_medium=internallink&onsite_campaign=SmithMag&onsite_content=Timothy%20Ferris%20on%20Voyagers%27%20Never-Ending%20Journey

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Biologist Roger Payne provided a whale song (“the most beautiful whale greeting,” he said, and “the one that should last forever”) captured with hydrophones off the coast of Bermuda in 1970. Thinking that perhaps the whale song might make more sense to aliens than to humans, Ferris wanted to include more than a slice and so mixed some of the song behind the greetings in different languages. “That strikes some people as hilarious, but from a bandwidth standpoint, it worked quite well,” says Ferris. “It doesn’t interfere with the greetings, and if you are interested in the whale song, you can extract it.”

 

loved that bit

 

The whole thing is pretty fucking sad isn't it? Or "poignant", if you want to be more charitable...

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Biologist Roger Payne provided a whale song (“the most beautiful whale greeting,” he said, and “the one that should last forever”) captured with hydrophones off the coast of Bermuda in 1970. Thinking that perhaps the whale song might make more sense to aliens than to humans, Ferris wanted to include more than a slice and so mixed some of the song behind the greetings in different languages. “That strikes some people as hilarious, but from a bandwidth standpoint, it worked quite well,” says Ferris. “It doesn’t interfere with the greetings, and if you are interested in the whale song, you can extract it.”

 

loved that bit

 

The whole thing is pretty fucking sad isn't it? Or "poignant", if you want to be more charitable...

 

Wow, I thought I knew just about everything regarding the Voyager Golden Record, having read about it many times since I was a kid, but that was a new tidbit to me.

 

sagan campaigned for the beatles' 'here comes the sun' but was defeated. because the world is full of joyless assholes.

 

Such a lovely song in every way...man you're right, what the fuck was EMI thinking? Or at least the soulless dick who made that decision. ಠ_ಠ

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sagan campaigned for the beatles' 'here comes the sun' but was defeated. because the world is full of joyless assholes.

 

I was sure there was a beatles song in it.

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i wonder what it is statistically most likely to run into in space eventually? It would be funny to make a film that begins on earth with the creation of the plaques and then charts a journey through space lasting a few billion years with an emotive soundtrack which intensifies further as it hurtles, against all odds, towards a solar system containing lifeforms. The hairs on the back of your neck stand up with anticipation. Then at the climax you simply can not believe what you are seeing as it heads towards a planet that looks quite like Earth. You are near orgasm. The music soars. You are crying now. This is amazing. The music reaches its zenith at this point as it hurtles right past the planet into the sun.

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i wonder what it is statistically most likely to run into in space eventually? It would be funny to make a film that begins on earth with the creation of the plaques and then charts a journey through space lasting a few billion years with an emotive soundtrack which intensifies further as it hurtles, against all odds, towards a solar system containing lifeforms. The hairs on the back of your neck stand up with anticipation. Then at the climax you simply can not believe what you are seeing as it heads towards a planet that looks quite like Earth. You are near orgasm. The music soars. You are crying now. This is amazing. The music reaches its zenith at this point as it hurtles right past the planet into the sun.

i was thinking "burns up on reentry, turns into an unrecognizable hunk of metal and confuses an alien farmer who uses parts of it to reinforce his shanty" but i think i like your idea better

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i wonder what it is statistically most likely to run into in space eventually? It would be funny to make a film that begins on earth with the creation of the plaques and then charts a journey through space lasting a few billion years with an emotive soundtrack which intensifies further as it hurtles, against all odds, towards a solar system containing lifeforms. The hairs on the back of your neck stand up with anticipation. Then at the climax you simply can not believe what you are seeing as it heads towards a planet that looks quite like Earth. You are near orgasm. The music soars. You are crying now. This is amazing. The music reaches its zenith at this point as it hurtles right past the planet into the sun.

 

If you read the article, the likelyhood that it will run into anything is all but 0 due to the vast distances between objects in interstellar space. Ironically, I bet if we ever develop interstellar travel, we will one day search for it as a museum piece.

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i wonder what it is statistically most likely to run into in space eventually? It would be funny to make a film that begins on earth with the creation of the plaques and then charts a journey through space lasting a few billion years with an emotive soundtrack which intensifies further as it hurtles, against all odds, towards a solar system containing lifeforms. The hairs on the back of your neck stand up with anticipation. Then at the climax you simply can not believe what you are seeing as it heads towards a planet that looks quite like Earth. You are near orgasm. The music soars. You are crying now. This is amazing. The music reaches its zenith at this point as it hurtles right past the planet into the sun.

 

If you read the article, the likelyhood that it will run into anything is all but 0 due to the vast distances between objects in interstellar space. Ironically, I bet if we ever develop interstellar travel, we will one day search for it as a museum piece.

 

I recall that a reference to the Golden Record was made in the Transformers spin-off Beast Wars as the "Golden Disk" and Megatron left a message or some shit on it blah blah...

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I have a CDROM called Murmurs of Earth with all the images, sounds and music contained on it. Very cool stuff. Also high res images for any one interested:

 

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Here are the images contained, not high res.

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