Hi and as well, as usual, we're going to start this episode with a trip to the future.

If you're new to the podcast, don't worry. It will all make sense soon.

This week we're starting in the year 2045.

Officials from the United Nations, NASA, and the European Space Agency released a group statement today confirming rumors that a probe from another galaxy has been identified in our solar system.

Scientists have named the probe Voyager B as it appears to be nearly identical in design and construction as the twin Voyager probes that NASA launched in 1977.

In their statement, the international team says that they have been monitoring the probe for seven days.

Little is known about what exactly is on the probe, but it does appear to be broadcasting a set of recordings.

These recordings include a message from one of their leaders,

as well as what scientists believe to be recordings of music and the sounds of animals and plants from their planet.

We take you now to a brief selection of those sounds that the agency has released to the

public. I'm going to go to go to see here. Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm. Oh, I'm a mmm.

mmm. mmm. V. This load-star spacecraft was constructed by the Nihanu region of Guilla.

We are a world of 124 million beings among the 3 billion who inhabit

our planet. We cast this message into the Cosmos. We hope that it survives a billion years

into our future when our civilization is far different

and the surface of our planet may even be profoundly altered.

Of the 200 billion stars in the Daria galaxy, we hope that some, or perhaps just one, may be inhabited by space-faring

civilizations such as ourselves.

If one such civilization intercepts Lodestar and can understand these recorded contents,

here is our message.

We give this to you as a present from our small but lovely world, a tiny sample of our

images, sounds, music, thoughts, feelings, and discovery. a tiny sample of our images sounds music thoughts feelings and discoveries we hope

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