#Voyager Golden Record

[thicc-astronaut]

Fucked up rn thinking about what it's gonna be like for the alien that recieves the Voyager 1 golden record

You find Voyager 1 crashed on some asteroid in space or something. Right. The wreck is barely recognizable because it's been getting blasted by solar radiation for the better part of an eon. You investigate and you find the little record and it's like. This is proof of some civilization out there.

There's little pictures of them. That's what they looked like, those two figures etched into the metal. There's a picture of their solar system - special emphasis on the third planet. Home. That's them and that's their home.

And you follow the pictographic symbols to figure out how to play the sound on it and you hear, obviously, not any words that you understand. But the patterns, the rhythms, it's clearly language. And you hear over fifty different voices speaking in that alien language. And a bunch of other noises too, which clearly aren't the same as their spoken language but must also originate from that third rock in their system they call home.

And something feels so poetic to me about this alien, looking up towards the stars, knowing that the beings who made that record sent it out so long ago that they're probably extinct now. But in a way they're still alive. They're still talking to you. You have a history of their world right there

#voyager golden record #space exploration

[samble-moved]

don't be sad, okay? a hundred messages in a hundred languages of humanity's hope and goodwill sent through the stars for lightyears on and on forever on voyager.

#per #space #outer space #voyager golden record #im not tearing up listening to it no way not at all #🌠

[herosplatling-replica]

without realizing it, i had written a fic about space au prc. please enjoy ☄️💖

#rhythm doctor #space au #polyrhythmcule #the intern #internbot #my art #space #comet #voyager golden record #my writing #ada paige #ian rhythm doctor

[castowhere]

VOYAGER

#voyager golden record #space #scifi #artists on tumblr #illustration

[earlymorningirl]

Greetings in different languages from the Voyager Golden Record that I constantly think about.

#voyager 1 #outer space #space #girlblogging #the indomitable human spirit #hopecore #earthlings #stars #writting #longing #digital diary #curiosity #nasa #universe #voyager golden record

[pepperedart]

When your antenna's 2 degrees off.

#voyager 2 #voyager golden record #artists on tumblr #my art #digital art #gijinka #gijinka art #space gijinka #and i shall summon #17776

[delusionalinsecurewreckpiningphd]

SOO I have feelings about Liu Cixin's Dark Forest - not that I have read it page to page, mostly just the wikipedia page because it is such an interesting premise, but goddamn this premise.

I guess the title is sort of based on the same game theory "dark forest hypothesis" in which alien civilizations exist but are paranoid that if they make themselves known, more advanced civilizations will come and colonize or eliminate them. It is a dark forest because whoever light a fire in that forest make themselves a target by others in the dark.

Cool hypothesis and all, but I think I'm just so wary of the mountains of media basing off the premise that we're all in a zero-sum game and the operative is always "Destroy each other". *picking up Humankind the book again while reminding myself we scientists sent probe into space to both study and to share a bit of humanity to the rest of space*

#humankind a hopeful history #rutger bregman #liu cixin #the three body problem #the dark forest #dark forest hypothesis #space #alien #voyager golden record

[wilhelmina-murray-harker]

i think one of the reasons why i love space so much is because it brings out the kindest part of humanity. really, more than anything, we just want to connect with others

so many of the greetings on the golden record ask how the listener is. they wish for peace and good things to happen. one asks if the listener has eaten yet

#breaking news mina has cried about space yet again #this is also why i like history so much; especially ancient history #space #voyager golden record

[tfc2211]

Voyager Golden Record 40th Anniversary Edition (2017)

#Sounds Of Earth #Voyager Golden Record

[hopepunk-priest]

I've been thinking about the Voyager golden records and all of the things Humanity thought important to include on our first and only true message to the stars and how it included greetings like "have you eaten yet?" And rock n roll music and a child laughing and a woman meditating on being in love. How it included the needle point and printed diagram on how to play it, how it used the time signature of the change of a hydrogen atom and then information about that atom, how we decided that would be the mark of an intelligent race. Those records are not on target to hit anything for a sextillian (one thousand million million million, 10^21, 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000) years. How it included videos of people eating and pictures of Isaac Newton's work and Bach and truly, truly what we believe to be the best parts of humanity and it will outlast us!! It will outlast our planet, our sun, our whole galaxy- this message in a bottle cast to a truly infinite sea, with a higher chance of never being found even IF intelligent life is out there, these two records containing all of the hope and desperation of humanity to say we existed!! We are no more but we did live and love and these are the very best pieces of us! Look, our reproduction system! Listen to this song! Watch this woman stand in a store and smile! The human diagrams are waving to a people they will likely never meet in the infinite painful hope that someone will find them and see us and remember us and-

#interstellar voyager missions #voyager golden record #space #just holy fuck dude!!! holy shit and fuck!! #and you know what the record says on it? do you know? #to the makers of music- all worlds all times #humans are SO #it has photographs of our planet... and if its ever found this planet wont even exist anymore and isnt that love?? isnt it?? arent we so #my heart is both full and breaking and I simply- #*muffled screaming*

[cocalea]

We cast this message into the cosmos. It is likely to survive a billion years into our future, when our civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed. Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some--perhaps many--may have inhabited planets and spacefaring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message:

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. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe.

― Jimmy Carter, the Voyager Golden Record

The Voyager message is carried by a phonograph record, a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth.

#voyager golden record #golden record #president carter #jimmy carter #1977 #voyager

[jawiwi0]

Image From Voyager Golden Record

#voyager #voyager golden record #golden record #humans #ocean #fish

[teachersource]

Carl Sagan was born on November 9, 1934. An American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space, the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the hypothesis, accepted since, that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to, and calculated using, the greenhouse effect.

#carl sagan #astronomy #astrobiology #extraterrestial life #voyager golden record #science #science history #science birthdays #on this day #on this day in science history

[dontcallittimetravel]

Happy deathday to Carl Sagan. Even after all these years, we still feel your absence on this pale blue dot

#happy death day #carl sagan #pale blue dot #voyager golden record

[gigisluigi]

There is one hell of a Paris syndrome wanting for whoever finds the Voyager Golden Records

#paris syndrome #aliens #golden disk #voyager golden record #space

[stardotnet]

ive been thinking a lot about the golden records lately

#the brain waves are ann dryuan's brainwaves thinking about the golden record project & the man she fell in love with because of it #which i find so immensely beautiful #they put love on a little golden disc and sent it away forever #webweaving #web weaving #webweave #aesthetic #corecore #stardotnet #the golden records #golden record #voyager 1 #voyager 2 #space #outer space #space aesthetic #nasa #space webweave #pale blue dot #astronomy #astronomy webweave #voyager #spacecraft #1k