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Voyager's Golden Record For Aliens Now Available On SoundCloud

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-the-better-to-hear dept.

An anonymous reader writes: For years you've been able to listen to the sounds recorded on the golden records carried by the twin Voyager spacecraft online but NASA just made it a bit easier. The orginization just uploaded the recordings to SoundCloud. Now you can listen to a continuous stream of clips instead of clicking back and forth to hear the different tracks.

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  1. Interns running SlashDot tonight... by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 2

    >> The orginization just

    NASA did, did they?

  2. Copyright? by MobSwatter · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh the phone lines are hot to the RIAA tonight!

    1. Re:Copyright? by siddesu · · Score: 2

      Copyrighted. It is a copy-right, not a copy-write. Because it is the right-holders are important, and not the people who actually write. ;)

    2. Re:Copyright? by deviated_prevert · · Score: 3, Informative

      There's no music on this disc, only greetings by unknown people who probably signed off to NASA anyway.

      Wrong. They even put Glenn Gould on the disk so Sony most likely will be selling records and interstellar performance rights to the aliens who come to earth to find out who the hell played the piano like that and what why it has evil discordant humming in the background!

      My favourite piece is the gavotte en rondeaux from partita 3 of Bach which I play on the guitar. But as far as the RIAA and US .gov revisions of who owns music goes WHO GIVES A SHIT? They are the worst bunch of fuckwad backward minded asshole aliens on this or any planet IMO. In a few hundred years the truly great music performances of this planet will most likely only be available on the voyageur space craft.

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  3. If only we'd known by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Funny

    We could've just engraved a URL onto the side of each Voyager.

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    1. Re:If only we'd known by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

      We could've just engraved a URL onto the side of each Voyager.

      A pop-up ad could offend them enough to annihilate us

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    2. Re:If only we'd known by Gadget_Guy · · Score: 4, Funny

      In space, no one can hear you whoosh!

  4. Thanks, Earthlings by waynemcdougall · · Score: 2

    That's actually a lot more convenient. Do you know how much trouble it is to get a needle for Gold records? I have to keep borrowing Bowie's.

    Now if you could just get IPv6 sorted, I would feel much more welcomed.

    Yours sincerely

    Your Alien Overlord

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