The Sounds of Earth |
The Sounds of Earth |
Dec 27 2006, 11:13 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 14-April 06 From: Berlin Member No.: 744 |
The vinyl-sized golden "CDs" attached to Voyagers are mentioned in numerous books on astronomy. BUT: is there any mp3 available with the actual sounds that were sent there? I guess the sounds of 1970s would sound alien even to us Earthlings by now... Anyway, I really wish I could listen to that.
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Dec 27 2006, 11:25 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
Long before the internet, there were "RIGHTS" issues. They were never able to secure the rights for all the music.
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Dec 27 2006, 07:34 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 428 Joined: 21-August 06 From: Northern Virginia Member No.: 1062 |
I guess I'll just have to bring a record-to-mp3 player when I go to capture the voyager probes next month so that you can all have those sounds.
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Dec 27 2006, 07:45 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
This Web site contains all of the images, languages, and sounds on the Voyager Records:
http://re-lab.net/welcome/ As for the music, while it is not reproduced, the selections are listed and you can probably purchase most of them. You would have quite a collection of eclectic, global music as a result, to be sure. BTW, some of the sounds and music on the Records can be heard on the Cosmos soundtrack CD. http://www.users.bigpond.com/cosmic_voyager/ -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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