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"Billions of years from now our sun will have reduced Earth to a charred cinder. The golden record , however, should be largely intact aboard each voyager at remote corners of the milky way galaxy."
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html
I've just been reading about this for most of the day. apparently, back in 1977, scientists put a record aboard the two Voyager spacecraft and launched them into space. The record contains songs from all over the world, sounds of earth, and pictures (don't really know how they put pictures on there), and greetings in many languages. The pictures included instructions in some sort of code so that extraterrestrial life, or even earthly humans from the future, could somehow find a way to decode the information on there.
Here's a list of the songs they put:
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/music.html
and a list of images:
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/sceneearth.html
that website basically has the information. but not all the images are available (on that website at least, on torrents you can find the whole package).
i got to thinking what if we could put together a metal compilation and launch it into space, complete with lyrics, songs, and pictures of the metal community, etc... that'd be cool. to start off, i'd put The Lotus Eater, give anyone (or anything?) a good taste of Opeth. that or the whole Shadows of the Sun, that album is otherworldly.
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html
I've just been reading about this for most of the day. apparently, back in 1977, scientists put a record aboard the two Voyager spacecraft and launched them into space. The record contains songs from all over the world, sounds of earth, and pictures (don't really know how they put pictures on there), and greetings in many languages. The pictures included instructions in some sort of code so that extraterrestrial life, or even earthly humans from the future, could somehow find a way to decode the information on there.
Here's a list of the songs they put:
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/music.html
and a list of images:
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/sceneearth.html
that website basically has the information. but not all the images are available (on that website at least, on torrents you can find the whole package).
i got to thinking what if we could put together a metal compilation and launch it into space, complete with lyrics, songs, and pictures of the metal community, etc... that'd be cool. to start off, i'd put The Lotus Eater, give anyone (or anything?) a good taste of Opeth. that or the whole Shadows of the Sun, that album is otherworldly.
