The Golden Records

[Solid]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R819as8YDzY&feature=related -All of the pictures on the disks

When we sent the two voyager spacecrafts into space we put two golden records on them holding 116 pictures of Earth and it's life along with various natural sounds and famous music by composers and artists such as Beethoven and Mozart. It's amazing to think that in a billion or so years some intelligent life might well find the last remaining proof of human life. On the records are various pictures such as human families, complex and simple math, nature, machines, and our exact coordinates in the universe. There's also people saying greetings in 55 different languages and music from all around the world. It's a very fascinating thing.

And what if aliens find this and take it as a threat? I mean, we listed where we are in the universe so..

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[King of losers]

Beautiful.

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A time capsule.
IN SPACE!

[JAW959]

There's something similar to this on the international space station, it's called the immortality drive and it contains the genetic code of a few people (Stephen Colbert among them).

[?]

There's something similar to this on the international space station, it's called the immortality drive and it contains the genetic code of a few people (Stephen Colbert among them).

1: Get spaceship.
2: Go to international space station.
3: Get immortality drive.
4: Mass cloning.
5: ???
6: Stephen Colbert...Stephen Colbert everywhere.

[Oasis]

There's something similar to this on the international space station, it's called the immortality drive and it contains the genetic code of a few people (Stephen Colbert among them).

Ha ha, that's great.

Anyways, I don't know what moron thought putting hello in several different languages. It's close to impossible that another alien civilization developed a language similar to any Earth one.

[Camera]

The aliens might explode their heads if they listend to certain music. (Like in War of the Worlds)

[Solid]

Ha ha, that's great.

Anyways, I don't know what moron thought putting hello in several different languages. It's close to impossible that another alien civilization developed a language similar to any Earth one.

To show them what our languages are, duh.

[Oasis]

To show them what our languages are, duh.

If I said something in Korean, didn't tell you I said just had said Hi, would you know I said hi?

[Solid]

We're just trying to give them examples of human speech, if they're smart, which they should be if they figured out how to play it, they'd know we'd be communicating.

[Oasis]

We're just trying to give them examples of human speech, if they're smart, which they should be if they figured out how to play it, they'd know we'd be communicating.

Eh, well.

It just doesn't seem logical.

[Solid]

Though chances are the spacecrafts will just like fall into a blackhole or get destroyed somehow. :(

[Sirrus]

The instructions printed on the two Voyager space craft on how to play the records are (and need to be) so boiled down that another intelligent species that probably communicates and understands things in a COMPLETELY different way can still figure how to work our machine.

The funny thing is is that if this diagram weren't labeled, I doubt I could figure any of this out. Seriously, you try figuring this stuff.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/The_Sounds_of_Earth_Record_Cover_-_GPN-2000-001978.jpg

[Squideey]

I remember an episode from Star Trek Voyager in which a whole planet delved into nuclear war after an instance with an Earth probe containing the same information. This one is called Voyager. Welp.

[A.R.C.]

Ha ha, that's great.

Anyways, I don't know what moron thought putting hello in several different languages. It's close to impossible that another alien civilization developed a language similar to any Earth one.

To show diversity.