We decoded NASA’s messages to aliens by hand
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Published 2018-10-30
Video by: Cory Zapatka, William Poor, Sophie Erickson
Graphics: Alex Parkin
Audio: Andrew Marino
Executive Producers: Nilay Patel, Eleanor Donovan
Director of Audience Development: Ruben Salvadori
Social Media Manager: Dilpreet Kainth
General Manager: Stephen Belser
Network Development: Sarah Bishop Woods
Thanks to: Alessandra Potenza, Ron Barry
Special thanks to Ron Barry for walking us through his own audio decoding process, which got us excited in the story over a year ago. You can read about his own adventure and watch his process produce results in real-time in his own video in the links below:
boingboing.net/2017/09/05/how-to-decode-the-images…
• First Ever Decode of Voyager Audio Im...
Link to Manuel’s code on GitHub:
github.com/aizquier/voyagerimb
Link to the full audio data:
soundcloud.com/user-482195982/voyager-golden-recor…
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All Comments (21)
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What images or sounds would you send to aliens?
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Government: sends Golden discs to space Alien government: hides it from their public
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Alien 1: why are there so many weird symbols? Alien 2: Did you think they were going to speak English like us?
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The way I’ve always seen the Golden Record isn’t “a message to the stars” but more a “If we are here no longer, we were still here”
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I get the distinct feeling that he intended the record to be like a time capsule. We're intended to discover it again after we get very advanced at space travel and be reminded of how we once were.
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Golden Record be like: "John has 2 apples, calculate the mass of the Sun"
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- Aliens find disc - Aliens didn't figure out how to decode - Aliens google for decoding methods - Aliens watch this on youtube
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Its so insane how someone actually knew how to create this disc, just every single tiny thing with the very limited amount of tech for the time is so impressive
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id be terrified if one day this same record gets sent back to us
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Alien finding the Golden Disc : "Awesome, free gold!" melts the disc
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The aliens after finding this: Hey doesn't this look like the Golden Disc we sent a thousand of years ago?
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Imagine in the future if the aliens that found the record managed to decode it, and when they arrive to our system, the sun would already be a red giant and the earth was eaten by it, that will be depressing.
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fun fact: when our star burns out, the golden record may still exist and will be the last relic of humanity
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this is the hardest easter egg so far in the universe
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Alien: "What do you think this is?" Other Alien: "I don't know, let me open Excel real quick."
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This man should put this on a satellite. As a tutorial for aliens who can't figure how to decode the Golden record
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A billion years from now, when everything that we have ever built on Earth has crumbled into dust, when the continents are changed beyond recognition, and our species is unimaginably altered, or extinct, the Voyager Record will still speak for us. Carl Sagan
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Plot twist: this ends up on a planet where there are other humans and it becomes that planet's biggest mystery.
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Nasa creates a map were earth is, aliens visits, military shoots its down Aliens: man it was a trap
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One day, we are going to get something similar here on earth. And when decoded, it states. Be quiet, or else they'll find you to
