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Old 12-16-2010, 06:30 PM  
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It's so cool. Voyager has a gold disc on it:





"Instructions, in symbolic language, explain the origin of the spacecraft and indicate how the record is to be played. The 115 images are encoded in analog form. The remainder of the record is in audio, designed to be played at 16-2/3 revolutions per minute. It contains the spoken greetings, beginning with Akkadian, which was spoken in Sumer about six thousand years ago, and ending with Wu, a modern Chinese dialect. Following the section on the sounds of Earth, there is an eclectic 90-minute selection of music, including both Eastern and Western classics and a variety of ethnic music."

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html
i love the part where it tells exactly where we are

stupid scientists.
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