#Who recorded for the golden records aboard voyagers 1 and 2 how to
SNL even made a spoof off this, with a skit announcing the first communication from aliens to be: " Send more Chuck Berry!".īut it also contains encoded pictures! As well as some engraved images on the disk itself, including how to set it up and play it as a record. In fact, the only contemporary/modern rock song included on it was: " Johnny B. There is not only audio recording on the record, you can listen to it here, but fair warning, since the team wanted to showcase as much of Earth and diversity as possible on a limited amount of space, it's not really that "fun" of a listen, it's really more of a jumble of music, sounds, and speech in various languages. Some people consider this to be the edge of the Solar System, although there is a lot further to go, technically). In fact, they've both now left the helio-pause (a point in our Solar System beyond which, the Sun's radiation intensity becomes less strong/drops off. It will survive for much longer than humanity on Earth will (although sadly, not forever due to cosmic particles/dust/rays slowly degrading it over time until it's no longer playable), thus serving as a sort of 'time capsule' for many thousands of years to come, traveling enormously vast distances, both Voyagers hurtling away from us in different directions into space, forever. The main idea was to give anyone (or anything) that ever happened to find the spacecraft/record a brief snapshot into life on planet Earth and the human race. Here's what the twin Voyagers actually look like with the disk mounted on the side. So NASA allowed a team of astronomers to create a gold-coated record to mount on the upcoming Voyager missions, which was not a small accomplishment by any means, since even a tiny fraction of extra weight on a spacecraft/launch could cost upwards millions of dollars to compensate for. But they wanted to send more to potential other inhabitants of the universe. The idea came from a similarly-themed mounted plaque on Voyagers' predecessor spacecraft: Pioneers 1 & 2.
The Golden Record was the brainchild of Carl Sagan, the famous astronomer and astrophysicist, and Frank Drake, the astronomer responsible for creating the "Drake Equation", a mathematical formula that explains how common life should be in the universe.
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