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April 25, 2012 01:20 pm PDT
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Timothy Ferris on the Voyager probes' "Golden Record"
In 1977, NASA mounted copies of the above record album on the Voyager I and Voyager II space probes and launched them into the depths of space. Each album contained recordings of Earth, greetings in 55 languages, music, analog-encoded photographs, and a marvelous etching depicting a man, a woman, and our address in space. The [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ckCm01CQDG4/timothy-ferris-on-the-voyager.html
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