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EARTHDATE: August 9, 2015

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REAL LIFE NEWS: DOWNLOAD THE VOYAGER SOUND FILES

by Hazed

Two Voyager probes were launched in 1977 and sent off on a one-way journey. After they visited some of the Solar System’s planets they carried on going until now they have just about left our system and are heading into the interplanetary wastes.

When NASA sent them on their way they decided that they should contain a golden record, full of information about our planet and ourselves, in case the ships encountered another sentient species.

The content of the disks was chosen by Carl Sagan. As well as music, he included natural sounds such as surf, wind, thunder, birds and animals, plus the voices of humans welcoming aliens in various languages.

Now NASA has put all of the recordings onto SoundCloud so you hear exactly how we wanted to represent ourselves to alien species. Click the first source link below to see, and hear, the complete collection.

Source:
https://soundcloud.com/nasa
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/29/voyagers_golden_record_now_free_to_download/

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