Ongoing History Daily: The most-traveled record in the universe
Here’s a fun question: what is the rarest and most unattainable gold record in the universe? Actually, there are two.
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Golden Record
Science says that aliens might not be able to play NASA’s Golden Record
The two most unattainable records in the universe are aboard the Voyager spacecraft, which are both flying beyond our solar
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This Is Cool: A Message From Earth
We’ve heard a lot about that golden record aboard Voyager as its journey to the stars continues, at least for
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The Return of Geeks and Beats! This is Officially Episode 136 (Or as We Call It, S05E01)
Okay, okay. We’ll restart the show. After an 18-month-ish hiatus and much whingeing by the general public, Michael Hainsworth and
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The Laughter Mystery of the Golden Record Has Been Solved
When the Voyager spacecraft were launched 40 years ago, each of them carried a Golden Record (that’s the official name),
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Spacecraft Fact of the Day: Why Chuck Berry is Flying Through the Universe and the Beatles Aren’t
One of the coolest music projects ever was the Carl Sagan-curated Golden Record, phonograph records attached to the Voyager 1
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Random Music News for Thursday, February 23, 2017
I’m somewhere between Perth, Australia, and home in Toronto. Through the miracle of traveling east across the date line and
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Monday Timesuck: A New Way to Experience the Voyager Gold Records
Voyagers 1 and 2 are now a long way off (20.6 billion and 16.9 billion miles away) and still light-years
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Want: My Own Copy of the Voyager Golden Record
The two rarest and most unattainable records are the golden discs curated by Carl Sagan aboard the two Voyager spacecraft.
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Voyager’s Golden Record is Now Available for Download
When the Voyager probes were launched in mid-1977, they were each equipped with the rarest record in the universe: gold
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Listen to the First Record Our Future Alien Overlords Will Ever Hear
Way out there in that direction (19,468,009, 525 km, as I write this) and also in that direction (15,994,031,747 km),
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