Voyager’s Golden Record for Aliens Now Available on SoundCloud

Re:Voyager’s Golden Record for Aliens Now Available on Sound... by fr0styMatt2 on Monday July 27, 2015 @08:37PM (#9958897)

I wish we lived in a world as optimistic as that world back then :(

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Re:Voyager’s Golden Record for Aliens Now Available on Sound... by hermanmerman on Monday July 27, 2015 @09:03PM (#9958957)

Well contrast that with Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner's $100m initiative to search for alien life[1], and I'd say that we're still pretty optimistic about that. We're basically searching for aliens who would've had the same idea as we had with Voyager :) almost naive now that I think of it...

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen-hawking-russian-billiona...

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Re:Voyager’s Golden Record for Aliens Now Available on Sound... by duskwuff on Monday July 27, 2015 @09:19PM (#9959000)

Well, more precisely, aliens who are transmitting something akin to the Arecibo message:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message

Except we only sent ours once in 1974, so aliens who didn't happen to be listening in the right direction right then are out of luck.

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Re:Voyager’s Golden Record for Aliens Now Available on Sound... by ekianjo on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @12:28AM (#9959522)

Carl Sagan was not known to be super optimistic. In Cosmos he shows a lot of concerns that the Human Race may destroy itself in the Atomic Age.

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Re:Voyager’s Golden Record for Aliens Now Available on Sound... by prawn on Monday July 27, 2015 @11:44PM (#9959396)

Optimism is still here. It's just not very evenly distributed.

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Re:Voyager’s Golden Record for Aliens Now Available on Sound... by fr0styMatt2 on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @12:40AM (#9959556)

EDIT: The more I contemplate this, the more silly it sounds. A trap of nostalgia (for a time I wasn't even born in!).

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Yeah true.

The world really is wonderful, yet I always get the impression that science was much more respected in the past than it is today and that the general populace thought space exploration was a worthy endeavor.

I get the impression that we live in a less scientifically literate society.

Still, I never did live through that time and my impression might be based on rose-coloured romanticism. As an example, I got the impression the whole world was united by the moon landing, countless people in many countries glued to their television sets in awe and wonder. Yet today we have people that seriously argue the moon landings never happened.

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Re:Voyager’s Golden Record for Aliens Now Available on Sound... by api on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @12:46AM (#9959575)

I thought the same thing. Today we'd never do something so "woo woo." The sorts of visionaries who could be both imaginative and rational are a dying breed... We're left with stiffs and wackos. Either you're a card carrying member of the boring universe brigade or you believe everything on Rense.com.

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Re:Voyager’s Golden Record for Aliens Now Available on Sound... by WalterBright on Monday July 27, 2015 @10:59PM (#9959298)

I was around when it was launched. There were just as many doom and gloom predictions and feelings as today.

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Re:Voyager’s Golden Record for Aliens Now Available on Sound... by ryan-allen on Monday July 27, 2015 @11:05PM (#9959304)

We got to see the surface of Pluto, though! And we've also got the LHC :) I think things were 'as bad' as they are now 40 years ago, we're just more informed because information spreads so fast.

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