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Voyager 1's Golden Record

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Never forget that out first message to alien life was a naked selfie, a mix tape, and directions to our home.
- lol damn… now that you mention it the scientists that worked on Voyager basically predicted internet dating culture in 2023.
  Nudes, link to a Spotify playlist, and if all goes well, late night hookup directions.
  
  Maybe that is why they never come here. We sent out the equivalent of "hot girls in your area want to meet"
  Aliens: agh, fishing scams
- Imagine they get to earth, see everyone wearing cloths and are like "nah, wrong place"
  
  probably already happened lmao

Unsolicited nudes too.
- Fun fact! The nudes on Voyager actually got censored because people complained about the nudes on Pioneer, but then they snuck them in anyway with the scientific documents.
  From Wikipedia:
  After NASA had received criticism over the nudity on the Pioneer plaque (line drawings of a naked man and woman), the agency chose not to allow Sagan and his colleagues to include a photograph of a nude man and woman on the record. Instead, only a silhouette of the couple was included. However, the record does contain "Diagram of vertebrate evolution", by Jon Lomberg, with drawings of an anatomically correct naked male and naked female, showing external organs. The person waving on the diagram was also changed: on the Pioneer plaque, the man is waving, while on the "Vertebrate evolution" image, the woman is waving.
  
  The nudes on Voyager actually got censored because people complained
  This is why it's a bad idea to let Americans represent all of humanity 🤦

For those interested, this is the mixtape:
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/whats-on-the-record/music/
- Beethoven and Bach are waaaay overrepresented imo.
  
  I am extremely disappointed Kardi B is not on that list. They should have made a way to remotely update it.
  
  "Hello from Earth! Now music from about 25% of the population and landmass."
  I get that Americans, myself included, Beethoven and Bach are important and influence, but if it's trying to explain all of humanity, include more stuff from the nations of Africa, Asia, South America, and some stuff from the native people of Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the Americas.
  It feels at best stupid to say "this details the best of humanity in a small package" and the best is mostly western.
  I do love the "Hello from Earth" in several languages.
- "Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode"
  I really hope they included Marty McFly's famous quote:
  I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are going to love it.
- I've often heard that there was a specially recorded song by The Carpenters (usually in the context of jokingly complaining "why The Carpenters? The aliens are going to think we suck"). But it's not on the list. Is it an urban myth? Were they on a different spacecraft?
  After a quick Google - they did a song about sending a song into space. Then they did a weird-ass TV thing about sending that song into space. But as far as I can tell, no Carpenters song has actually been sent into space.
  (yeah yeah radio waves whatever. You know what I mean)

I loved how in Stellaris one of the first missions you can get to do is find and destroy voyager since it has too much information other civilizations can use to wipe us out.
- I mean if there is alien life that has the ability to reach us, they are technically and socially so much more advanced than we are that we wouldn't stand a chance or be able to hide either way. They'll either come in peace and we live or they don't and we die.
- That is not a standard mission, unless it's new.
  
  It was at launch https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellaris/comments/5e6fq5/anyone_else_get_this_cool_event/
  
  Probably only if you play a human empire (and probably only the fascist one tbh)
  
  They don't call them Voyager per se. You hunt down and grab "several unnamed probes" before other civilizations stumble on them.

DJ Serpico Presents: Humanity's Hits - Lo-Fi Beats to Chill and Relax to

I have to admit that I thought this was about Star Trek Voyager.
- V'ger.
- Same lmao

I was expecting it to say "Sir, I do not have the intellectual property rights to play this mixtape to the public." The golden record is like MLK's speeches - we know they're epic, and we're not allowed to listen to most of it/them without throwing some cash around.
- Wait, is that true?
  
  Yep. It's pretty shameful.

Where on voyager is the record located?
- It's the disc under the dish
  
  I hope those micrometeorites have been kind to it. Dont want them aliens to decode the disc as "Fuck you guys".

Lmao

I bought the replica box set and it's really well put together!
https://ozmarecords.com/collections/shop/products/voyager-golden-record-3xlp-box-set

It's for the mare!

They gotta figure out it works that way to begin with. IIRC, it comes with pictorial instructions but that may not be enough.
What if they don't even have hands? Or ears?

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