What do aliens and turntables have in common?
Apparently NASA believes UFO's come equipped with record players🤯👽🎶⁉️
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1oddday, in 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1, and Voyager 2 space probes, as part of a program to study interstellar space - attached to each of these space probes were 2 gold plated phonographic records. These records, simply known as "the Voyager Golden Records," included 115 images, nature sounds (i.e. ocean waves, birds, whales, etc.), as well as audio greetings in 55 different languages, including even some ancient languages. 🌎
🖼The design of the records are mystifying - although nothing more than engraved instructions on accessing the records content- the engravings give these cultural artifacts a somewhat hieroglyphic feel.👁🗨
The records were produced by a committee led by Dr. Carl Sagan, world renowned cosmologist (b.1934 – d.1996) - in hopes that an advanced civilization, would one day discover the records and hopefully gain an understanding of both humans, and Earth. 👽🎶🌎
With regards to music - Sagan & co. originally chose the song "Here Comes the Sun" by the Beatles, as a representation of western culture. Allegedly, while the Beatles were excited about the opportunity - it was their record label at the time, that refused to clear the record for NASA to use (Side note: record labels have always been @$$h0le$). Sagan's committee would eventually go with their second pick, Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" along with other songs representing many different nations on earth as well.🎸
In case you were wondering... Although NASA made sure that there were engraved instructions for playing the records, actual record players were never included on either of the Voyager space probes - lending to the idea, that either NASA believes all technology evolves in the same direction, or that ET spacecraft come equipped with turntables. 🤦♂️
The twin voyagers would eventually go on to visiting both Venus and Saturn before parting ways- and while the voyager space probes themselves will eventually go silent, the records themselves should last far longer. Nick Oberg (of the Astronomical Institute in the Netherlands), decided to examine what dangers the records would face and how it will effect their lifespan. Oberg concluded by saying, "Both Golden Records are highly likely to survive at least partially intact for a span of over 5 billion years,"
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-1oddday👽
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