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The Voyager Golden Records: Humanity's Message to the Stars
TLDR The Voyager Golden Records, launched into space in 1977, contain a diverse collection of images, sounds, and music representing humanity and Earth, with the hope of communicating with extraterrestrial life. The records include greetings in multiple languages, scientific diagrams, music from various cultures, and a sound essay capturing the evolution of Earth and humanity.
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The Voyager Golden Records are two identical gold records that were launched into space in 1977 on the Voyager probes as a way to potentially communicate with extraterrestrial life.
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The Voyager Golden Records were launched into space on the Voyager probes and are now billions of miles away from Earth, containing a variety of information about humanity and Earth.
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The public had concerns about taxpayer money being used to create what some called "spaceporn" with naked drawings of men and women on the Voyager Golden Records, but the intention was simply to show what humans look like.
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The Voyager Golden Records included symbols of a hydrogen atom and a diagram of our place in the universe, as well as a map of pulsars that could be used as signposts to navigate back to our solar system.
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The Voyager Golden Records included symbols of a hydrogen atom and a diagram of our place in the universe, as well as a map of pulsars that could be used as signposts to navigate back to our solar system.
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The Voyager Golden Records included instructions on how to play and recreate the images embedded as sound on the records, using binary code pictographs and a cartridge and stylus.
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The Voyager Golden Records included a variety of images that aimed to represent humanity and Earth, including astronomical images, scientific diagrams, biology, human biology, and everyday activities.
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The Voyager Golden Records included a wide range of images, including nature, human activities, art, and various landmarks, with the intention of showcasing the achievements of humanity and Earth without including any negative aspects such as religion, disease, or war.
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The Voyager Golden Records included greetings in 55 languages, including a greeting from Carl Sagan's son, as well as a whale song and an audio journey.
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The Voyager Golden Records included a sound essay that captured the evolution of Earth and humanity, as well as a recording called the "Music of the Spheres" based on the theories of Johannes Kepler.
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The Voyager Golden Records included a variety of music from different cultures and genres, including Beethoven, Bach, Chuck Berry, and music from around the world.
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The Voyager Golden Records project was a remarkable and hopeful gesture by a handful of people to send a message in the form of records into space, with the hope that aliens might find them and know that humans existed.
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