Here’s a fun question: what is the rarest and most unattainable gold record in the universe? Actually, there are two. They’re the phonograph records attached to the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft which
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The two most unattainable records in the universe are aboard the Voyager spacecraft, which are both flying beyond our solar system into the great void of the Milky Way. NASA’s Golden Records, curated
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We’ve heard a lot about that golden record aboard Voyager as its journey to the stars continues, at least for now. Having your own copy and different ways to experience it have come
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Okay, okay. We’ll restart the show. After an 18-month-ish hiatus and much whingeing by the general public, Michael Hainsworth and I have agreed to resurrect Geeks & Beats, probably the most popular music-and-tech
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When the Voyager spacecraft were launched 40 years ago, each of them carried a Golden Record (that’s the official name), which is a gold-plated LP featuring the sounds of earth curated by astronomer
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One of the coolest music projects ever was the Carl Sagan-curated Golden Record, phonograph records attached to the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. Made of actual gold–the element stands up very well to
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I’m somewhere between Perth, Australia, and home in Toronto. Through the miracle of traveling east across the date line and through 13 time zones, my Thursday will be 37 hours long. And now,
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Voyagers 1 and 2 are now a long way off (20.6 billion and 16.9 billion miles away) and still light-years away from being discovered by our new alien overlords, so it may be
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The two rarest and most unattainable records are the golden discs curated by Carl Sagan aboard the two Voyager spacecraft. The 12-inch phonograph records, featuring sounds of Earth that might one day be
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When the Voyager probes were launched in mid-1977, they were each equipped with the rarest record in the universe: gold photograph discs containing the sounds of planet Earth. You know, just in case
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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), the two Voyager probes are carrying two of the most valuable phonograph records
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