I sometimes think (maybe hope) that the purpose of sending Voyager into deep space is to, some day, give someone an excuse to make a quick detour to pick it up and bring it home.
Shame this doesn't have the 90-some minutes of music that the original record had on it.
Fun fact: Carl Sagan was in charge of the committee that selected these sounds.
I wish we lived in a world as optimistic as that world back then :(
I modified the galactic map of the golden record and have an updated version tattooed across my back.
the pictures : http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/sceneearth.html http://webodysseum.com/art/116-images-of-the-voyager-golden-... Carl Sagan's girlfriend eating grapes in a supermarket : http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/images/image077.gif
Favorite song on the album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNj2BXW852g
Correct me if I am wrong, I think these records were publicly available before because I distinctly remember hearing a few of the greetings.
We really need to recall this thing before it gets us all killed
Direct soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/nasa/sets/golden-record-sounds-of
I'm shocked at the extremely low fidelity. It sounds almost like 8 bit crush on top of POTS bandwidth filters. Some had nearly as much noise as signal to my ears -- I never noticed any laughter in #17 Footsteps, Heartbeat, Laughter. Any footsteps were indistinguishable from heartbeats.