NASA Voyager Golden Record Kickstarter

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Want to own a record that was originally produced for extraterrestrials? Now you can. The original was launched in 1977 and paired with the Voyager I and II spacecraft, which happen to be 13 billion miles away from Earth from now. The LP supposedly contains the best media that humanity had to offer, but I think someone should have fired the photo editor.

The Voyager Golden Record contains the story of Earth expressed in sounds, images, and science: Earth's greatest music from myriad cultures and eras, from Bach and Beethoven to Blind Willie Johnson and Chuck Berry, Senegalese percussion to Solomon Island panpipes. Dozens of natural sounds of our planet -- birds, a train, a baby's cry -- are collaged into a lovely audio poem called Sounds of Earth. There are spoken greetings in 55 human languages, and one whale language, and more than one hundred images encoded in analog that depict who, and what, we are.
 
If anything it'll more than likely cause any intelligent beings that might happen upon it to decide "Fuck that, we ain't goin' nowhere near that planet..." :D
 
More like "Nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure."
 
This a cash grab for vinyl lovers, based on something that i found great when i first heard about as a child, but now sounds pretty stupid: to leave a message for other life forms locate us. If our historu is any hint, every contact between civilizations of very different tech level ends badly.
 
geok1ng said:
This a cash grab for vinyl lovers, based on something that i found great when i first heard about as a child, but now sounds pretty stupid: to leave a message for other life forms locate us. If our historu is any hint, every contact between civilizations of very different tech level ends badly.
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Maybe, but presumably beings that can travel between solar systems are less petty than we are. What's more, if they can travel between solar systems, they probably can identify ones with planets they can live on. If they're like us, they'd have ID'd ours long before they found Voyager.
 
nilepez said:
Maybe, but presumably beings that can travel between solar systems are less petty than we are. What's more, if they can travel between solar systems, they probably can identify ones with planets they can live on. If they're like us, they'd have ID'd ours long before they found Voyager.
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Either that, or faster-than-light travel is actually really easy, and we just overlooked it.

https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf
 
The darkly funny bit would be if they understood the whale song, and that song happened to be about how horrible we are for killing so many of them and poisoning the oceans. Alien force arrives above Earth, wipes us out because we've been messing with whales.
 
The aliens contacted Riley Martin (whom they found ripe for anal probing) via telephone as a result of the Voyager mission:

 
geok1ng said:
This a cash grab for vinyl lovers, based on something that i found great when i first heard about as a child, but now sounds pretty stupid: to leave a message for other life forms locate us. If our historu is any hint, every contact between civilizations of very different tech level ends badly.
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I agree that space-faring species would have the capacity of wiping us out virtually effortlessly. However, 2 ways to think about it; being space-faring probably also means your civilization can exploit all manner of lifeless moons, and lifeless small planets for anything they contain to transform and build their society there. I think this would make places with life more valuable to keep as is, never touch them, and simply learn from them.
 
infinitywulfy said:
The darkly funny bit would be if they understood the whale song, and that song happened to be about how horrible we are for killing so many of them and poisoning the oceans. Alien force arrives above Earth, wipes us out because we've been messing with whales.
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Bah everyone knows the dolphins are the superior intelligence on this planet. Thanks for the fishes.
 
Shadowolf said:
Just search for the word "fur." You'll understand why I stopped reading. >:)
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You quit reading because the aliens had fur?
That has nothing to do with the story, other that to make it easier to tell whether a scene is happening on earth or in the alien ship (it flips back and forth a lot)
 
What an effen joke. [H] are you an official NASA shill now?
Tired of the quantity of these non PC related posts.
 
funkydmunky said:
What an effen joke. [H] are you an official NASA shill now?
Tired of the quantity of these non PC related posts.
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The site has always had science, general tech and geek culture posts in the 15+ years I've been here. This would have to fall under geek culture.... AFAIK, NASA has nothing to do with this kickstarter.
 
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