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The Voyager Golden Record - Our Message to the Stars

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  • Duration: 7 mins
  • Publication date: 12 Apr 2022

Abstract

In 1977, humanity launched a message in a bottle into the stars, golden records attached to the two Voyager probes with information and images of our planet.

With no guarantee if our message would find anyone, or the intention if civilization it could find, we launched a collection of images, sounds and information about our precious blue planet.

This Noah’s Ark of mankind’s culture could be our first message to an alien civilization and may even out life our species all together.

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