Voyager’s Golden Record for Aliens Now Available on SoundCloud

[RickHull]

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.

[flashman]

That link is 'Sounds of Earth', there's also 'Greetings to the Universe': https://soundcloud.com/nasa/sets/golden-record-greetings-to-...

[ericHosick]

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.

[blhack]

Imagine that it becomes a museum some day. Fly out there and look at it, undisturbed.

[tachyonbeam]

Don't worry, VGER will find its own way home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxAaVqdz_Vk

[542458]

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.

[TD-Linux]

When aliens eventually stumble on the probe, the music will probably still be copyrighted.

[fr0styMatt2]

I wish we lived in a world as optimistic as that world back then :(

[hermanmerman]

Well contrast that with Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner's $100m initiative to search for alien life[1], and I'd say that we're still pretty optimistic about that. We're basically searching for aliens who would've had the same idea as we had with Voyager :) almost naive now that I think of it...

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen-hawking-russian-billiona...

[ekianjo]

Carl Sagan was not known to be super optimistic. In Cosmos he shows a lot of concerns that the Human Race may destroy itself in the Atomic Age.

[prawn]

Optimism is still here. It's just not very evenly distributed.

[api]

I thought the same thing. Today we'd never do something so "woo woo." The sorts of visionaries who could be both imaginative and rational are a dying breed... We're left with stiffs and wackos. Either you're a card carrying member of the boring universe brigade or you believe everything on Rense.com.

[WalterBright]

I was around when it was launched. There were just as many doom and gloom predictions and feelings as today.

[fapjacks]

I modified the galactic map of the golden record and have an updated version tattooed across my back.

[gPphX]

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

[jaryd]

Favorite song on the album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNj2BXW852g

[iamcreasy]

Correct me if I am wrong, I think these records were publicly available before because I distinctly remember hearing a few of the greetings.

[Tekker]

They were, but not assembled in one place.

[miesman]

We really need to recall this thing before it gets us all killed