NASA’s Voyager Golden Records, Why Cats Love Boxes, and Bacteria Hot Spots in Your Office

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

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4.6 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Learn about the golden records NASA launched into space with their Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes; the 5 most bacteria-ridden spots in your office; and why cats love boxes, according to science.

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

NASA Once Launched a Golden Record of Earth's Music Into Space
The 5 Most Bacteria-Ridden Spots in Your Office
Why Do Cats Love Boxes?

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0:00.0	Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:05.6	I'm Cody Gough.
0:06.6	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.6	Today you'll learn about golden records NASA launched into space, the five most bacteria-ridden spots in your office, and why cats love boxes?
0:15.8	What satisfy some curiosity?
0:17.6	41 years ago today, Voyager 1 launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, and when it blasted off on September 5, 1977,
0:26.1	it was carrying some pretty interesting cargo.
0:28.7	Today, we're going to take a look at the golden records we launched into space on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.
0:34.3	Cody, you know that I'm a huge Carl Sagan fan girl, right?
0:38.7	Yes, I do.
0:39.7	Yes.
0:40.7	I know you have at least one Carl Sagan t-shirt.
0:42.2	Oh yeah, that's my Carl Segan's. I know you have at least one Carl Sagan's muscle shirt.
0:45.0	All right.
0:48.0	When you're wearing a Muscle Gaines t-shirt with an astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist on it.
0:55.2	Yeah, you're really going pretty niche there.
0:58.2	It's the best.
1:00.2	Is the best?
1:01.2	It really is.
1:03.0	I know Carl Sagan has a lot to do with this story, so I guess, I guess this is something you're pretty excited about.
1:09.0	It is, it's one of my favorite things.
1:11.0	So let's talk about Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.
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