Perhaps Aliens like Continuous Streaming, Too

Scientific Computing ^ | Thu, 07/30/2015 - 10:36am | Suzanne Tracy

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The Voyager Golden Record recordings are now available on Soundcloud, which means that anyone with an Internet connection can experience NASA’s “time capsule” for themselves, knowing that the originals are still traveling through empty space or the heliosphere.The Voyager Golden Records, included aboard both Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977, are phonograph records — 12-inch gold-plated copper disks — containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life on Earth. They include 115 analog-encoded photographs, spoken greetings from Earth-people in 55 languages, a 12-minute montage of a variety of natural sounds — such as those made by surf, wind and thunder, birds, whales and other animals — and 90 minutes of musical selections from different cultures and eras. The famous records are intended to communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrials, portraying Earth's life and culture.

The recordings are now available on Soundcloud, which means that anyone with an Internet connection can experience NASA’s “time capsule” for themselves, knowing that the originals are still traveling through empty space or the heliosphere. (It will be 40,000 years before they make a close approach to another other planetary system.) Although the recordings have been online for years now as individual sound clips, this is the first time these thought-provoking sounds are available as a continuous stream of clips.

The contents of the Golden Records were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan. Dr. Sagan and his associates assembled them as a greeting to any extraterrestrials the spacecraft might encounter along the way — like a "bottle in the cosmic ocean," as Sagan put it. NASA attached one record to each spacecraft prior to launch, encasing each record in a protective aluminum jacket, complete with a cartridge, needle and instructions on how to work the record player, plus details about the craft's origins.

About the Voyager Mission

NASA reports that the twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are now exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. Continuing on their more-than-37-year journey since their 1977 launches, they each are much farther away from Earth and the sun than Pluto. In August 2012, Voyager 1 made its historic entry into interstellar space, the region between stars, filled with material ejected by the death of nearby stars millions of years ago. Scientists hope to learn more about this region when Voyager 2, now in the “heliosheath" — the outermost layer of the heliosphere where the solar wind is slowed by the pressure of interstellar medium — also reaches interstellar space. Both spacecraft are still sending scientific information about their surroundings through the Deep Space Network, or DSN.

The primary Voyager mission was exploration of Jupiter and Saturn. However, after making a string of discoveries there — such as active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io and intricacies of Saturn's rings — the mission was extended. Voyager 2 went on to explore Uranus and Neptune, and is still the only spacecraft to have visited those outer planets. The adventurers' current mission, the Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM), will explore the outermost edge of the Sun's domain. And beyond.

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IIRC, this recording wasn't released earlier due to copyright issues.

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[Texas Eagle]

Now, now. We don't use words like "aliens" anymore.

Undocumented Intergalactic Immigrants is the term.

[cripplecreek]

Well something has to explain the sustained Trumpgasm.

[tet68]

the Deep Space Network, or DSN.

I wonder if I can get DSSN on cable.

Deep Space Sports Network.

Or maybe DSONN.

Deep Space Obama News Network.

Or even DSMO.

Deep Space Muslim Outreach.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks, Nully. I always enjoy Voyager articles because my Dad managed the Radioisotope Thermal Generator program to power the spacecraft. They are still producing power after all these years.

[odds]

>>”Perhaps Aliens like Continuous Streaming, Too”<<

When I saw the headline only for this article, wasn’t sure if by “Aliens” it meant ET-type or those humans who aren’t U.S. citizens.

Often found the word “Alien, alien” a bit amusing in relation to its use in the U.S.

[dfwgator]

“SEND MORE CHUCK BERRY!”

[odds]

“Back to the Future”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1i5coU-0_Q

[az_gila]

Well at least they didn’t send an 8-track tape up there.

I wonder if NASA put an USB port on the outside of the spacecraft?

[JoeProBono]

[oldvirginian]

The aliens have already been here.
They very quickly determined there is no intelligent life on earth, and left as quickly as possible.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks null and void.

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[roadcat]

Although the recordings have been online for years now as individual sound clips, this is the first time these thought-provoking sounds are available as a continuous stream of clips.

Maybe so as Internet streaming clips. But I bought the full set of Voyager recordings as a software package for my Mac some 25 years ago. Came with the drawings and everything.