Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Remix Humanity's Mixtape

So, Voyager 1 is now 11 billion miles from Earth. It is continually playing a mix of audio that contains directions on how to find Earth as well as many of humanity's most important cultural music. You guessed right, there's no Justin Bieber on it.

If you could send out audio clips, what would you put on it?

Anyway, here are all the audio sounds which contain "the music of Igor Stravinksy and Chuck Berry, human greetings in dozens of languages, the staccato of an infant's cry, an urgent train whistle, choruses of crickets, and a whale's ethereal song."   I'm not sure if really any aliens would understand this, but this is really about sharing to the aliens what we really are and we all sound like on earth.

Keep in mind, this is what was sent out 37 years ago when Voyager was first launched. WARNING: It's 5 hours long.








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