Website review: Voyager Golden Record - Wikipedia, ...
tomassanchez discovered this in Astronomy
•8 reviews since Aug 24, 2005
astronomy, space
•en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
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tomassanchez discovered 36 months ago- the golden record of the voyager
- msiegel rated 9 days ago
- Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" was sent into space on a gold record? The licensing fees must have been astronomical! ;D thanks, i'll be here all week
- blogstumbler rated 6 months ago
- "The Voyager Golden Record is a phonograph record included in the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. It contains sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. It is intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form, or far future humans, that may find it. The Voyager spacecraft will take about 40,000 years to come near another star, 'near' meaning in this case within around 1.7 light-years' distance; hence, if other beings do not come in the direction of the spacecraft to meet them, it will take at least that long for the Golden Record to be found."
- Haitek808 rated 6 months ago
- fascinating..i wonder they would press these for mass souvenir purchasing purposes
- chronophasiac rated 6 months ago
- Consider this: if we destroy ourselves, if we extinguish all life on this planet, what will remain to tell our tale to the universe? A few tiny spaceborne artifacts, like a handful of sand thrown into the vastness of space. One of these grains of sand is the Voyager Golden Record, now 9.6 billion miles from our Sun and growing ever distant. From the record: "We cast this message into the cosmos... Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some - perhaps many - may have inhabited planets and space faring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message: We are trying to survive our time so we may live into yours." I feel a great, indescribable sadness whenever I read these words.
- darkfire79 rated 6 months ago
- I think it would be funny if it did a 360 and came back to Earth.. Kids of today, or tomorrow, whatever.. would be like WTF is this round thing? Just like the teenager on kid nation who didnt know what a phonograph or record was. :P
- ajtarheelfan rated 13 months ago
- An attempt to potentially reach life else where beyond our star.
- bluesky rated 34 months ago
- From the page: "The Voyager message is carried by the Voyager Golden Record; a 30 cm (12-inch approx.) gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. Each record is encased in a protective aluminum jacket, together with a cartridge and a needle. Instructions, in symbolic language, explain the origin of the spacecraft and indicate how the record is to be played."
