Comments on: The Voyager Golden Record Experience

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 00:14:02 +0000

Still here. Still not eaten.

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 13:32:17 +0000

No hungry visitors yet.

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Tue, 14 May 2019 01:25:49 +0000

I hope that whoever finds our message is friendly.

By: Goldilocks

Goldilocks — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 18:06:32 +0000

@ Dreeze

It could be worse. If the recording were made today they would be at least 1/3 advertising content:

Get your matter transporters their whitest with….

By: Floyd Council

Floyd Council — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 21:58:40 +0000

Do you there’s secret message if the record is played backwards ?

Having said this, do we know if there were any instructions included advising on the direction the record should be played ?

By: Dreeze

Dreeze — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 00:01:26 +0000

@ Alan

I’m not blaming anyone, it’s just that given the oportunity the whole of humanity could’ve done a much better effort. Given the fact that it’s very (extemely) unlikely the discs will ever be found or read, the fact that we tried is pointless unless we make a genuine effort, which we didn’t.

By: Alan Bellows

Alan Bellows — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:05:29 +0000

@Dreeze: Dr Sagan and his team had less than a year to design the cover, gather the audio/images, secure permission from the artists, press these two-of-a-kind records, and secure them to the spacecraft. All this while navigating a vast governmental bureaucracy. A Rosetta-stone-style translator was just out of their practical reach. Besides, the golden records are really more for the benefit of humanity than that of any aliens. They are a gesture of optimism and self-assertion, like many of our monuments here on Earth.

By: Dreeze

Dreeze — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 08:14:43 +0000

Ah, the voyager discs! The worst joke humanity ever pulled off. A pointless message in 155 different, incohesive languages, spoken by 155 different voices, articulations and accents, with no delimitation between them. If an alien civilization ever tries to decode it’s meaning they’ll find that there is no common rationale in any of it, and they’ll just end up frustrated that we wasted this truly unique chance of communicating on a stream of unintelligible garble.

We could’ve given them a Rosetta’s stone, with one side of the disc containing images and the other side simultaneously describing what it is that can be seen in them. And all that in one, well articulated voice and in a language that’s easy to learn, not the incredibly complicated mess of words and sounds that is English. Preferably a less complex language like Malayan which has hardly any conjugations and plurals are simply the singular noun repeated.

It would probably be best even have used a made up, easy to learn, basic simple language as 40.000 years from now, there won’t be anyone on Earth who understands any of the languages spoken today. So if the aliens were ever to reply in the same language, we would have to relearn it all anyway.

Basically the only thing that can easily be extracted from the information on those discs is Earth’s location, so the aliens will know where to send that fusion bomb when they finally realise we’ve pulled their leg and made them spend lots of valuable resources for absolutely nothing.

By: Laoch Maghouin

Laoch Maghouin — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 04:15:34 +0000

There was a recent Kickstarter campaign for the 40th anniversary of the Voyager probes.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ozmarecords/voyager-golden-record-40th-anniversary-edition

(Yes, I backed it.) :-D

By: SagarPrasad

SagarPrasad — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 09:58:20 +0000

Damn interesting indeed…How the details are interpreted and reacted by receivers would be interesting, isn’t ??