The Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, is the farthest-from-earth object humanity has ever created. At this moment, it's around three times further from the sun than Pluto, and is now thought to be traversing interstellar space. Tucked away inside the Voyager 1 is the Voyager Golden Record, a vinyl record filled with sounds, music, and speech (in 55 different languages) that captures the things happening here on earth. Some of the specific sounds include squealing monkeys, Beethoven's String Quartet, and a personal greeting from Jimmy Carter. The Golden Record idea works under a lot of assumptions - that the craft makes it to its destination star (the ETA is 40,000 years), that there's extra-terrestrial life surrounding that star and finally, that aliens will know how to play a vinyl record. Luckily, we left universal instructions on how to play it, just in case.
Gamer, Researcher of strange things.
I'm a writer-editor hybrid whose writings on video games, technology and movies can be found across the internet. I've even ventured into the realm of current affairs on occasion but, unable to face reality, have retreated into expatiating on things on screens instead.
