When Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched into space in 1977, their mission was to explore the outer solar system, and over the following decade, they did so admirably. With an 8-track tape memory system and onboard computers that are thousands of times weaker than the phone in your pocket, the two spacecraft sent back an immense amount of imagery and information about the four gas giants, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
But NASA knew that after the planetary tour was complete, the Voyagers would remain on a trajectory toward interstellar space, having gained enough velocity from Jupiter's gravity to eventually escape the grasp of the sun. Since they will orbit the Milky Way for the foreseeable future, the Voyagers should carry a message from their maker, NASA scientists decided.
The Voyager team tapped famous astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan to compose that message. Sagan's committee chose a copper phonograph LP as their medium, and over the course of six weeks they produced the "Golden Record": a collection of sounds and images that will probably outlast all human artifacts on Earth.
Poster Comment:
42 years ago, Jimmah Carter was President...
NASA (apparently bored with the Moon) decided to embed a "Time Capsule" into a Voyager space pod on its way to ("orbit[ing] the Milky Way for the foreseeable future." Chyeah, right)
Chosen were ONLY these 116 photos, enclosed on a special record player for potential "Aliens" to discover about "Earth." Chosen to be THE "sound track of "human-kind" is a disturbing and depressing blues track from the 1920s. Figures.
Of further interest: This project gives us insight into the mind-set of the PTB who even back then in 1977 were already thinking "globally" at the expense of attempting to marginalize whites, men, and Western Culture.
Some things purposely NOT mentioned in their "Record of Man" was "Religion" and "God." (remember, NASA let militant secular-human/atheist Carl Sagan control this project.)
