As you go about your alien day on your far off alien world doing your strange extra-terrestrial things you look up to the many suns in the sky and wonder; is there life out there somewhere? 
In this installment of the ever-popular and interesting edition of Audio Adventures Tim Pickup puts us in that position, taking us through highlights of the Voyager Interstellar Outreach Program. Launched in 1977 the two Voyager spacecrafts held a golden record - an audio greeting from the planet Earth including cryptic instructions for alien lifeforms to play the record. Sit back, listen and imagine that you are the alien tasked with sorting out these strange new sounds from a little blue planet across the universe.
Audio Adventures: Voyager Interstellar Outreach Recordings
June 2nd, 2006 · 1 Comment
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1 george trees // Oct 17, 2007 at 8:25 pm
wow! thankyou very much for the fantastic show.
The Golden Record is like the ultimate mixtape. I often make mixtapes for people and think carefully about what to choose, taking into account what i know they like and what i think they’ll like and what i just want them to hear. But in this case its pretty tricky, they might even get this thing and figure out how to work it but not have any ears, then they might then think we were just wasting their time!
Obviously its available now with internet technology, but do you know if you could get hold of this recording when it was made. Seeing as it was 1977 it might have sat next to God Save The Queen on the shelf which is a good image.
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