Voyager Golden Record

The Voyager Golden Record is a gramophone record, attached to the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977, containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. It is intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form that may find it. The Voyagers will take about 40,000 years to come close to another star, hence if other beings do not come our way to meet them, it will take at least that long if the Golden Record is found.

Related Topics:
Gramophone record - Voyager - Spacecraft - 1977 - Extraterrestrial

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As the probe it is attached to is relatively small and will be all but lost in the vastness of interstellar space, it is extraordinarily unlikely that it will ever be intercepted. If it is ever found by an alien species, it will be far in the future, and thus the record is best seen as a symbolic statement rather than a serious attempt to communicate with aliens.

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