How the Voyager Golden Records Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

As part of a super 70s push to get Earth to a seat at the table of the Galactic Federation (in case there is, in fact, such a thing), astronomer Carl Sagan oversaw an ambitious project to launch a compilation of Earth’s greatest hits into deep space.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Welcome to Step You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
0:41.3	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.0	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
0:46.6	We're just batching it, going stag today.
0:51.1	First stuff you should know.
0:53.0	Yeah, our date's not here.
0:56.5	We're one another's date.
0:57.5	Whether you like it or not, I'm your date.
1:00.4	Were you a big school dance guy?
1:04.8	I was big at staying away from them.
1:07.1	He didn't go to those things.
1:08.9	I went to like one or two in like eighth grade maybe, but I learned my lesson early on.
1:12.8	I got you.
1:13.8	No prom.
1:14.8	Yeah, I mean, I went to prom and all that, but you know, like the normal school dances and
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