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Listen to the Voyagers’ Golden Records, Earth’s Message to Aliens

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The two Voyager spacecrafts both carry a Golden Record with the sounds of Earth intended for any advanced extraterrestrials (like me) who might one day find a lonely spacecraft and decide to play it.

Since the spacecrafts are still zooming out of the solar system and reporting their positions back to NASA, it’s probably safe to assume that no fellow aliens of mine have intercepted the twin probes and deciphered the instructions on how to play an LP. But you can, as NASA has recently uploaded the contents of the Golden Records to Soundcloud, so here you go:

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Written by Tamás Varga
A sociologist and English major by degree, I've worked in the area of civil society & human rights and have been blogging in the fields of travel, nature & science for over 20 years.

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