## Voyager's Golden Record is found and played.

* Author: u/Kuratius *
* URL: http://www.thetruthpodcast.com/story/2015/10/6/voyager-found
* Score: 28

* Created: 2018-06-09T23:52:53

### Post:

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### Comments:

> **u/Kuratius** [+12]  (3 minutes later)
> 
> I think it's fun to think about how someone finding the golden record might react.
> 
> A glimpse into a foreign world. A legacy that may yet survive the species that created it.
> 
>  A single statement: Remember us.

> **u/Dent7777** [+6]  *House Atreides* (21 hours later)
> 
> A little hokey, but thought provoking none the less

> **u/Newfur** [+3]  *Crazy like a fox. Literally.* (6 hours later)
> 
> I kinda like this. I felt a little ashamed, thought, hearing what kind and pleasant things aliens might think of us.

> **u/Gigapode** [+1]  (23 hours later)
> 
> The way the icons/pictographs on the golden record (and other objects sent into space) were constructed is pretty fascinating.
> 
> Vsauce has a interesting video about the subject called "messages for the future":
> Since the structure of an atom is likely to be common between alien civilisations, the record has a depiction of a hydrogen atom in order to establish a unit of measurement. Those units are then formulated to show how a record player (also sent with the record) could be set to spin the record at the right speed.

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