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Voyager's Golden Record is found and played.
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Author: u/Kuratius *
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URL: http://www.thetruthpodcast.com/story/2015/10/6/voyager-found
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Score: 28
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Created: 2018-06-09T23:52:53
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u/Kuratius [+11] *
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 [+5] House Atreides*
A little hokey, but thought provoking none the less
u/Newfur [+3] Crazy like a fox. Literally.*
I kinda like this. I felt a little ashamed, thought, hearing what kind and pleasant things aliens might think of us.
u/Gigapode [+1] *
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.