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speeding_snail  ·  4526 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Audio of the Voyager Interstellar Golden Record - The Sounds Of Earth
Imagine having to pick the sounds to go on this. What would you choose?

It really shows what we have on this planet. The diversity. The technology. Emotions. Languages. Maybe not everything, but this is more like a teaser for a movie. It shows just a little bit. To know everything, you'll have to come and see for yourself.

The funny thing is that many to the sounds near the end are no longer commonplace. The sound of jets has changed (only fighterjets sound like that and you don't want to send that into space if the message is peace and love), propellerplanes are rare, trains are electric and no longer sound like that and the large cruisers are diesel driven and only the horn has remained the same. I also heard a horse and carriage and an oldfashioned rocket. It not only shows the space dwelling creatures what we had back then and have had further back in the past. It is also a recording of how the world changed in these 30 years.

Still makes me wonder what I would pick. Maybe I would include the sound of a data center...





winston  ·  4526 days ago  ·  link  ·  
    To know everything, you'll have to come and see for yourself.
Well said, it is like an "Earth preview". Not sure what I would pick, I think it would be wise to have a disc for natural sounds and one for man made sounds.