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"Nearly 46 years ago, NASA launched two small probes carrying a pair of
gold-plated copper records that would soon become the farthest human-made
objects from Earth ever created. The probes — named Voyager 1 and 2 — and their
golden payloads are currently floating more than 12 billion miles (19 billion
kilometers) from Earth, and gaining distance every day. But this week, you can
add a master copy of those legendary records to your personal vinyl collection
without even leaving your home — and all you need is half a million dollars.
On July 27, Sotheby's will auction two double-sided reels of audio tape
containing the master recordings of the Voyager Golden Record, plucked from the
personal collection of celebrity astronomer Carl Sagan and his wife, Ann
Druyan, both of whom helped with the record's design and development in 1977.
Like the gold-plated discs they begot, the master tapes contain 27 pieces of
music intended to encapsulate the world's musical heritage, including
Beethoven, Chuck Berry, a Navajo chant and an Indian vocal raga. The tapes also
include 22 minutes of nature sounds and human voices speaking in 59 languages,
all of which were designed as a sort of audio postcard for any potentially
intelligent aliens that might one day chance upon the Voyager probes. (The
probes also contain an audio player with pictorial instructions, and a star map
showing the location of Earth.)"
Via Kenny Chaffin.
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