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🗓️ 22 April 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | As the Secretary General of the United Nations, who represent almost all of the human inhabitants |
0:11.0 | of the planet Earth, I send greetings on behalf of the people of our planet. |
0:17.0 | You're listening to 20,000 Hertz. I'm Dallas Taylor. |
0:21.6 | We step out of our solar system into the universe, seeking only peace and friendship, |
0:28.6 | to teach if we are called upon, to be taught if we are fortunate. |
0:33.6 | We know full well that our planet and all its inhabitants are but a small part of this immense universe that surrounds us, |
0:43.9 | and it is with humility and hope that we take this step. |
0:52.0 | That was Kurt Waldheim, the fourth secretary general of the UN. |
0:56.5 | And what you just heard is the first track from the most epic album of all time. |
1:01.9 | It was made by a team of scientists, artists, and historians, |
1:05.7 | hoping that one day other intelligent life forms might find it. |
1:09.6 | It's the Voyager Golden Record. It's also a time |
1:13.1 | capsule, and there's actually two of them. They're currently over 11 billion miles away, |
1:19.1 | hurtling through space at over 30,000 miles an hour. These literal golden records are attached to |
1:25.7 | the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes. |
1:28.8 | These probes were launched in the late 70s, and today they're further away from Earth than any |
1:33.8 | other human-made object. |
1:36.3 | The Voyager probes could continue to explore worlds unknown for more than a billion years, |
1:41.6 | so there is a theoretical chance that alien life could find one of these probes. |
1:47.0 | In the 70s, a committee chaired by Carl Sagan curated a record to ride on each craft. |
1:53.0 | Here's Carl talking about the record on the original Cosmos television series. |
1:57.0 | A phonograph record. Golden, delicate, with instructions for use. |
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