GOLDEN RECORDS ON VOYAGER HOW TO
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All of the image content is encoded in an analog with audio records designed to be played at 16-2/3 revolutions per minute.

GOLDEN RECORDS ON VOYAGER HOW TO

These are in a symbolic language to explain the origin of the craft and how to play the strange disks to aliens or future humans.

You'll be pleased to hear the Voyager Golden Records come with instructions. Each of the records is encased in a protective jacket of aluminium as well as a cartridge and needle to play them. It also has written messages from President Carter and the then U.N. The first message being in Akkadian (The language of Sumer 6000 years ago) and ends in Wu (a modern Chinese dialect). The Voyager Golden Records also have recordings of various spoken greetings from mankind in fifty-five languages. They also decided to add musical selections from different cultures around the globe from different eras.

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The esteemed and greatly missed Carl Sagan oversaw the committee who decided on the content. The specially selected NASA committee gathered together 115 images plus a variety of natural sounds such as surf, wind, thunder, birds, whales and other animals. But the launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet.' - Carl Sagan

'The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced spacefaring civilizations in interstellar space. It will take nearly forty thousand years before Voyager 1 will reach another planetary system. Since voyager left our solar system in the late 1990s they have been speeding through empty space. Although the 30.5 cm gold-plate records are pretty simple but the message they carry is far from basic. This disk contains a variety of media intended to portray the diversity of life on Earth. A time capsule of a kind to communicate our story to our civilizations or future human travelers. Building on these examples NASA decided to be a bit more ambitious with Voyagers 1 and 2. They will undoubtedly be of great interest to spacefarers in the distant future. Pioneers 10 and 11 both carried small metal plaques identifying their time and place of origin. The Voyager Golden Records are not unique to the voyager craft. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.' - President Jimmy Carter Time capsules in space 'This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. Let's just hope they have ears and eyes to read and hear it. The message it carries is a bold message to the void of space. This humble piece of technology has now reached interstellar space. See for more information about our mission.Voyager 1 is currently the farthest human-made object from Earth. Membership is open to all active and retired employees of Caltech and to contract employees as affiliate members. If you enjoy attending these events, please support CMA so we can continue to provide the best in thought-provoking engagements. Your membership in CMA is what inspires us to bring great speakers and events to Caltech (campus and JPL). Doors will open at 6:45 p.m.Ĭontact the Caltech Ticket Office by calling (626) 395-4652 between 10:00 a.m. Seating for the event is expected to be in high demand reservations are avialable on a first-come, first-served basis.

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This is a free event, and open to the public, but reservations are required.

Ed Stone: Voyager project scientist David Morrisroe Professor of Physics, and Vice Provost for Special Projects, Caltech.

David Pescovitz: Coproducer of the first vinyl release of the Golden Record, research director at Institute for the Future, and editor/partner at Boing Boing.

Lynda Obst: Bestselling author, producer of Interstellar, Contact, Sleepless in Seattle, and many other films.

Reggie Watts: Vocal artist, musician, comedian, and technologist.

Ann Druyan: Creative director of the Voyager interstellar message writer, producer, and director of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.

Please join us as Jason Bentley-KCRW's music director, and a cultural influencer-moderates a panel discussion on how the golden record came to be, how it has affected popular culture, and how it might be different if it were done today. Forty years after NASA's Voyagers ventured into space, this cosmic greeting still has an impact on Earth as it causes us to think about what it means to be human and the possibility of life in the universe. Imagined by Carl Sagan and his team, it is both a time capsule and a greeting intended for extraterrestrials. This phonograph record, a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk, contains sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. Voyager 1 and 2, humanity's farthest and longest-lived spacecraft, both carry a golden record.

Golden records on voyager