Suggestion: Why is ounce abbreviated to oz and why is pound lbs? Also any other abbreviation anomalies and/or stuff like "Why is Colonel (military rank) pronounced Kernal?".
Sir - yes I said Sir. Pleeease do an episode on how difficult it was to take down a Knight on the battlefield during medieval times. I can't seem to find an interesting in depth video narrated on the topic with an English accent. Not too mention a video that also includes the history behind the armour, misconceptions and why they were so much more than an average soldier on the battlefield during their time.
How petty is it that the record label that had signed the Beatles couldn't deal with the loss in royalties from a space alien maybe listening to one of their songs for free after potentially millions of years of the golden record in an endless expanse.
The aliens might have been able to listen to the Beatles, but EMI didn't allow it for copyright reasons. That fact alone might be more telling of humankind than the whole damn disk.
The intergalactic police will take one look at our Kessler Syndrome ridden planet and pass by ASAP. We're gonna be like the annoying neighbors that never mow the lawn and leave shit all over the garden, aliens will find it disgusting but pass right on by, thankful that we've trapped ourselfs within our own shit and therefore preventing the spread of Kessler syndrome to other star systems.
The message on the Golden Disk is as follows: "This is Megatron, leader of the Decepticons, and if you are hearing this, it means I've failed...this time. But I know that trans-warp technology is being developed, and so I leave this message to any Decepticon descendants that may find - *Message ends*
An old SNL sketch comes to mind. Steve Martin is playing a psychic making predictions about the future. One of the predictions is that we will receive a message from aliens concerning Voyager. The message: Send more Chuck Berry!
Todd F Wright Depends on how you define “dead end.” Every species tends to die out, but sometimes that’s because it changes enough to warrant reclassification, thus becoming a different species entirely. After all, the ancient species of archaic human that speciated into early modern humans and Neanderthals probably stopped existing in and of itself once it changed enough to become the other two species. While it’s possible we could drive ourselves into full-on extinction, it’s also possible we could die out because our sufficiently distant descendants have no choice but to declare a new scientific name for humanity, or perhaps even several, depending on how much interplanetary colonization and orbital habitats influence speciation of human populations. It’s possible that by the time humans have the tech to hunt down the Voyager probes and put them in a museum, genetics may have moved on far enough that the humans that recover them may technically be a new human species succeeding ours.
Very unlikely. But it would great to see all those spacecraft again (Voyager, Galileo, Cassini, etc) to see the effects of space. Check for micrometeor damage. See why certain pieces of hardware stopped working. (Yes, I know Galileo and Cassini are no more)
Yes, well, I think the title of the video says it all....Celestial Message in a Bottle...... and who usually finds the bottle.??... I believe that 'we', the future 'we' will go looking for it....just like we went looking for the 'Titanic'..... who knows.... ... I've seen the pics they included, and the music, and greetings.... looks pretty lame right now.... but it's 'history', and 'we' created it.... thanks Carl....RIP
I liked your explanation on the scale of the universe, it made me think of the way famed author Douglas Adams described it in the book "The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe.": The Universe --- some information to help you live in it. 1~Area: Infinite. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word ``Infinite''. Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, ``wow, that's big'', time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here. 2~Imports: None. It is impossible to import things into an infinite area, there being no outside to import things in from. 3~Exports: None. See imports. 4~Population: None. It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination. 5~Monetary Units: None. In fact there are three freely convertible currencies in the Galaxy, but none of them count. The Altairan Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flaninian Pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other Flaninian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles across each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination. 6~Art: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn't a mirror big enough --- see point one. 7~Sex: None. Well, in fact there is an awful lot of this, largely because of the total lack of money, trade, banks, art, or anything else that might keep all the non-existent people of the Universe occupied. However, it is not worth embarking on a long discussion of it now because it really is terribly complicated.
At which point, angered by Sagan's arrogance, they send a battle fleet to Earth to issue the death penalty for littering, but due to a miscalculation of scale, the enitre fleet is swallowed by a small dog.
he was a one off and i can't help but think that if more people had his curiosity, compassion and clarity of vision the world would be a far better place.
Actually that would be S.E.T.I. considering Aliens could be Telepathic or use Quantum or Tacion communication tech as Radio waves are just to damned slow to send a repot home 6.7 light years away....better to have a commui-k that bypasses space
It was even a product of the Bootstrap Paradox-if Chuck Berry was inspired to write _Johnny B. Goode_ after hearing Marty play it, who originally wrote it?
When in 1986 Voyager II - passed by Uranus, my family and I had the unique experience of going to JPL and we got to watch on a big screen live (time-delay) footage from the craft. The picture wasn't perfect and a little blurry, but it was pretty amazing to be seeing this thing that's so incredibly far away live, it was pretty cool.
We may be insignificant in the grand scale of things, but the fact that we can appreciate that and our place in the dark abyss of space and time, makes us great
I first heard about this disk in Vsauce's video about loneliness. In that video, Michael commented that the song "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground", by Blind Willie Johnson was included on this disk as a way to covey that exact human emotion to alien life forms.
eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html You can see when they're communicating with them and some of the details about the signal. They still return data even today which is amazing.
Believe that the Voyager golden record carried some examples of Classical Music,such as compositions by Beethoven,Chopin,Mozart,and Tchaikovsky,if I,m not mistskened,friends.Whatever,it,s now billions of miles from Earth,going into interstellar space!
This was a pretty good video. I figured it was Voyager from the title but is so amazing to think that we have intentionally sent something so far away and still have contact.
It's quite possible that those probes will never travel interstellar distances. Our space travel technology will advance enough to overtake them, recover them and bring them back to Earth to be put in a museum long before they go that far.
@@dev89368 Maybe, but the physics involved are well understood, and there's nothing in them that would preclude such a scenario, so I prefer to be an optimist about that one. 🙂
I remember when the Pioneer spacecraft were launched. There were actually some people who were upset about the plaques. They were worried that they would allow evil space aliens to find us. Some things never change.
The chance of the Golden Record being found by civilized beings is so small that it's like buying a really expensive lottery ticket and throwing it away before finding out whether you won.
I’d hate to imagine that extraterrestrials found everything we sent out and looked at what we call, “Love.” Only for them to see it as weakness if by some chance they only mate due to other factors that we don’t fully agree or understand. The music and we’ve sent quite a few different styles, genres and from different time periods however might be interesting. To see their reaction to that would be priceless
imagine, a few million years in the future, a probe is passing by a planet and is recovered by the people living there. they bring the ancient probe carefully out of orbit and examine it thoroughly. after a few months of analysis, they go "shit, it's voyager, i guess we overtook it. false alarm everyone."
Imagine if some of the meteors that have burned up in earths atmosphere have been probes sent from other civilizations like the voyager probes. Their “gold record” burned up before we could ever see them...
Every time some program comes up about the Voyager Golden Record, I'm always (amazingly) surprised that I find out more than I had known before. Thank you for this presentation of an endlessly fascinating object and NASA space mission. I'll have to check out some of the references listed.
You forgot "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" by 20's blues man Blind Willie Johnson. He was blinded at the age of 7 when his step mother threw lye in his eyes after she had been caught in bed with another man... He died penniless in the ruins of his house that had burnt down. It's a sad story, but his voice is cruising the cosmos.
You know what's sad. That the disk contains positive things so if advance life does find it and visits all they're going to see is seething hatred and malice and probably gonna get shot at.
the way it's spoken sounds like he's saying the blob alf, and I thought alf's not a blob before I realized he was listing aliens, the blob, alf or predator!
They included the whale greeting that way other advanced civilizations wouldn't have to travel back in time to acquire whales. Oops, wrong Star Trek movie, sorry.
So advanced that they need 3 backup systems on their made in Taiwan equipment that malfunctions after 1 surge of energy (I actually looked at the "made in tag" in one of their shuttles at the Las Vegs Hilton Ride)
A lot of the songs selected for the Voyager record were meant to embody specific human emotions, happiness, anger, fear etc. One song was chosen to represent loneliness: "Dark was the night, cold was the ground" by Blind Willie Johnson. It's a short song, a simple refrain on a guitar, and Johnson humming along slowly and somberly. Thinking about the Voyager probe, the furthest humanities ambition has ever traveled, sailing silently into that unyielding void I'm hard pressed to think of a more appropriate piece of music to capture that image. Just an unimaginable, overpowering loneliness, to be so by oneself so very far away.
The idea of us mere humans "joining an interstellar community" is so profound and meaningful, it made me choke up a bit. Wouldn't it be nice to see us achieve something that big and powerful? Take all your gods and little ideas and step aside because THAT would mark mankind down as one of the meaningful and useful civilizations and it would mean we have actually met and communicated with an actual sophisticatedly intelligent lifeform from another place in this endless universe. If you still see someone praying after that, I can't help them... It would be a "happily ever after" to all the things we messed up before...
The project is completely over-the-top with basically a negligible chance of ever paying off. It'll either drift in space forever, get sucked into the gravitational pull of a star or gas giant and crushed, or be stuck on an inhabitable planet. The whole point isn't utility, but rather making a message. A statement about mankind. So basically this was a really expensive space-y art experiment by a bunch of space enthusiasts. (Or rather, one space enthusiast and his circle of friends)
As always, even when I think I know a subject, you seem to be able to dig up more content. Still waiting to see: Today I found out about Today I Found Out
Pioneer 1 and 2 are actually farther out than the Voyager probes. The difference is Voyager 1 and 2 are still transmitting signals, long after it was thought they'd cease.
What happens when the Klingons receive such a sappy disc? A blueprint for our weaknesses and seemingly peaceful nature? I hope they snuck in some images of war and plagues and death machines... Just to give the would-be conquerors pause...
This sounds like a prequel story to where aliens come to eat the tasty creatures who just sent them a menu. :p Either, something out of Douglas Adams's catalog of stories or perhaps the anime "The promised neverland".
one of the biggest mistakes humanity has ever made , "oh no lets just advertise our location and information for any random superior space capable race to find"
Just to think, that even if there was a slight chance that it'll be found, we could never truly know. Or even be around for contact. Really makes me feel small and insignificant, which, whether or not I like to admit it, I am. As we all are. Just a flash in the pan on a galactic scale we'll never be able to comprehend.
The first teenagers who steal an unattended mass-ion-drive ship are gonna jet out and hijack one of those craft, repaint it with "V'ger" and send it spiraling back at us.
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no thank you, maybe next week, i think this week i will find a video of yours sponsored by curiocity stream instead
The "Dreadlock beings from Predator" are called "Yautja".
Suggestion: Why is ounce abbreviated to oz and why is pound lbs? Also any other abbreviation anomalies and/or stuff like "Why is Colonel (military rank) pronounced Kernal?".
So what if we nuked the moon?
Sir - yes I said Sir. Pleeease do an episode on how difficult it was to take down a Knight on the battlefield during medieval times. I can't seem to find an interesting in depth video narrated on the topic with an English accent. Not too mention a video that also includes the history behind the armour, misconceptions and why they were so much more than an average soldier on the battlefield during their time.
Never forget that we as a species introduced ourselves to the universe with a mix tape, unsolicited nudes and directions back to our place.
Facts
LOL 😆
Maybe they should have included a small container with some vacuum sealed LSD or pot to get that party started.
Gotta make some kind of effort to clap some alien cheeks and get alien AIDs
Mirokuofnite did someone mention Grindr/PoF?
How petty is it that the record label that had signed the Beatles couldn't deal with the loss in royalties from a space alien maybe listening to one of their songs for free after potentially millions of years of the golden record in an endless expanse.
Welcome to studio executives... I swear these labels and networks only make money despite the people running them.
If they were smart they'd have permitted it then made a gimmick of how the songs were interstellar or out of this world or something, but nope.
@Zimmit's FunHouse Adventure Oy gevalt these nasty racists just have no respect for the six trillion anymore.
@Jonathan Doehrty Ha ha. You're a joke!
Capitalist greed in a nutshell . . . .
#sillyhumons
The aliens might have been able to listen to the Beatles, but EMI didn't allow it for copyright reasons.
That fact alone might be more telling of humankind than the whole damn disk.
for humans to advance we must destroy greed prob after ww3 or ww4
I had high hopes that it would have been after www
but alas, even with the vast amounts of information at our fingertips....
Who knows the aliens could be like me and go, “Yeah they’re okay but what most humans make of it? Totally overrated.”
@@KingAram99 "I know not with what weapons WW3 will be fought, but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
@@Alejandro_87 nah nukes won't be used
"Send more Chuck Berry" may be the reply.
Ken Penney - I was gonna say that! You're eleven minutes too fast for me.
From SNL!😁👍
Yep, first thought that went through my mind...
The really cool aliens will say, "Send more Blind Willie"
He died 80000 years ago sorry
The FIRST LP that went GOLD before it was released.
Ha ha! Clever boy . . . .
Nicely done.....
Arthur C Clarke nailed it...
Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
I also keep another of his quotes in mind: "Any sufficiently advanced technology will seem like magic."
@@deadfreightwest5956 it's true mate
@@deadfreightwest5956 wat will sufficiently advanced magic seem like?
@@JohnnyMidnyte "wat will sufficiently advanced magic seem like?"
Magic.
in the grim darkness of the far future, there is only v'ger
Warhammer fan?
A man of culture 👏
A man of culture indeed
@@leonidas8513 star trek dumbass.
@@leonidas8513 lol 😂
The first alien that finds one of the discs will probably take it to one of those intergalactic check cashing places to pawn it.
On their alien version of Pawn Stars. "I'll give you 15 credits."
What if another civilization sends a similar message and they collide mid-way. That would definitely count as a cosmic joke.
Another thing I found amazing is the Carter speech. Proves to me just how brilliant he still is...
Him, or his speech writers.
In 1 million years from now earth gets a littering fine.
The intergalactic police will take one look at our Kessler Syndrome ridden planet and pass by ASAP. We're gonna be like the annoying neighbors that never mow the lawn and leave shit all over the garden, aliens will find it disgusting but pass right on by, thankful that we've trapped ourselfs within our own shit and therefore preventing the spread of Kessler syndrome to other star systems.
The message on the Golden Disk is as follows:
"This is Megatron, leader of the Decepticons, and if you are hearing this, it means I've failed...this time. But I know that trans-warp technology is being developed, and so I leave this message to any Decepticon descendants that may find - *Message ends*
In the grim darkness of space, only one sound prevails. Faintly at first, it soon becomes clear. Simon Whistler is whistling.
I bet Simon can't even whistle . . . .
#falseadvertising
Our first attempt to message aliens was to send nude pictures, a mix tape and directions to our house...
An old SNL sketch comes to mind. Steve Martin is playing a psychic making predictions about the future. One of the predictions is that we will receive a message from aliens concerning Voyager. The message: Send more Chuck Berry!
Sneaky editing after "Voyager arrived at Uranus". Three guesses who cracked up...
I am really impressed that more than one Voyager is eager to probe Uranus. (Gawd, will I ever outgrow this kind of horrible joke? lol)
Lol - that got me cracking up too
it lasts 50,000 years only to be scraped by the alien version of Sanford and Son
I think humans will recover it in the future.
Todd F Wright Depends on how you define “dead end.” Every species tends to die out, but sometimes that’s because it changes enough to warrant reclassification, thus becoming a different species entirely. After all, the ancient species of archaic human that speciated into early modern humans and Neanderthals probably stopped existing in and of itself once it changed enough to become the other two species.
While it’s possible we could drive ourselves into full-on extinction, it’s also possible we could die out because our sufficiently distant descendants have no choice but to declare a new scientific name for humanity, or perhaps even several, depending on how much interplanetary colonization and orbital habitats influence speciation of human populations.
It’s possible that by the time humans have the tech to hunt down the Voyager probes and put them in a museum, genetics may have moved on far enough that the humans that recover them may technically be a new human species succeeding ours.
That's pretty unlikely.
Very unlikely.
But it would great to see all those spacecraft again (Voyager, Galileo, Cassini, etc) to see the effects of space. Check for micrometeor damage. See why certain pieces of hardware stopped working.
(Yes, I know Galileo and Cassini are no more)
Yes, well, I think the title of the video says it all....Celestial Message in a Bottle...... and who usually finds the bottle.??... I believe that 'we', the future 'we' will go looking for it....just like we went looking for the 'Titanic'..... who knows.... ... I've seen the pics they included, and the music, and greetings.... looks pretty lame right now.... but it's 'history', and 'we' created it.... thanks Carl....RIP
S Lord unless space travel becomes extremely cheap and fast, we won’t go after Voyager. There are more interesting places to go. 🔭🛸🛰
I liked your explanation on the scale of the universe, it made me think of the way famed author Douglas Adams described it in the book "The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe.":
The Universe --- some information to help you live in it.
1~Area: Infinite.
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word ``Infinite''.
Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, ``wow, that's big'', time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.
2~Imports: None.
It is impossible to import things into an infinite area, there being no outside to import things in from.
3~Exports: None.
See imports.
4~Population: None.
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
5~Monetary Units: None.
In fact there are three freely convertible currencies in the Galaxy, but none of them count. The Altairan Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flaninian Pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other Flaninian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles across each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination.
6~Art: None.
The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn't a mirror big enough --- see point one.
7~Sex: None.
Well, in fact there is an awful lot of this, largely because of the total lack of money, trade, banks, art, or anything else that might keep all the non-existent people of the Universe occupied.
However, it is not worth embarking on a long discussion of it now because it really is terribly complicated.
So long... and thanks for the typing
@@sofa-lofa4241 Ever heard of "copy-paste"? 😉
I wonder what they do with there flaninian pobble beads? 😯🤯
The problem with absurdist sarcasm is that people nowadays just might think it's serious . . .
Ha, ha! The "Monetary Units" bit is great . . . .
It's gonna suck if the aliens just leave us on read
Or if Voyager is picked up by a space garbage collection skow...
With our luck, one of the craft will hit and break something important to the aliens.
At which point, angered by Sagan's arrogance, they send a battle fleet to Earth to issue the death penalty for littering, but due to a miscalculation of scale, the enitre fleet is swallowed by a small dog.
Carl Sagan's optimism always makes me happy-cry. 😭
@DATING HARLEY QUINN - I can only give one thumbs up for that quote.
he was a one off and i can't help but think that if more people had his curiosity, compassion and clarity of vision the world would be a far better place.
I do agree. If I had to choose a single person to represent humanity it would be him
I say we should send out thousands of these in every direction.
We already know that the Golden Disk was found by Cybertronians, leading Megatron to come to earth and starting the Beast Wars.
Yeeeeeeeesss!
Thank you, Dinobot. You saved us all...
This project is the greatest testament to humanity's intelligence and stupidity at the same time.
Actually that would be S.E.T.I. considering Aliens could be Telepathic or use Quantum or Tacion communication tech as Radio waves are just to damned slow to send a repot home 6.7 light years away....better to have a commui-k that bypasses space
When you said it was a record made in 1977, my immediate thought was, "Oh God, the music was all disco, wasn't it?"
Disco Duck and The Hustle.
In 40 thousand years, voyager will have been found for nearly 10k years and was in the possession of Malcador the Sigilite.
He'll be using the record as a drink coaster.
Ahh a man of culture. Nothing like people embracing the whole 40k thing. Very good very good.
Malcador wishes . . . .
*mentions Carl Sagan*
"I bet they'll mention how he was involved with nuking the moon"
*does exactly that*
I was having a "so-so" day until I watched this. **Sigh of relief
Johnny B Goode transcends space and time, as shown by it’s inclusion in the Voyager program and Back to the Future.
It was even a product of the Bootstrap Paradox-if Chuck Berry was inspired to write _Johnny B. Goode_ after hearing Marty play it, who originally wrote it?
Carl Sagan is legend!
When in 1986 Voyager II - passed by Uranus, my family and I had the unique experience of going to JPL and we got to watch on a big screen live (time-delay) footage from the craft. The picture wasn't perfect and a little blurry, but it was pretty amazing to be seeing this thing that's so incredibly far away live, it was pretty cool.
We may be insignificant in the grand scale of things, but the fact that we can appreciate that and our place in the dark abyss of space and time, makes us great
I enjoyed this video. Thanks Daven, Simon & crew. You are my " *Brilliant* ".
We need to send out another record with just Never gonna give you up on it for the laughs
Multi generational projects like this gives me so much hope for humans. If we can do this, I think about the other things we can do.
2:07 “the probes could do the same with Uranus” 😯
Any video that talks about Carl Sagan is itself gold
I first heard about this disk in Vsauce's video about loneliness. In that video, Michael commented that the song "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground", by Blind Willie Johnson was included on this disk as a way to covey that exact human emotion to alien life forms.
Voyager 1's falling power supply means it will stop transmitting data by about 2025
Yes. its still sending us data.
eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
You can see when they're communicating with them and some of the details about the signal. They still return data even today which is amazing.
The message said, "Here we are, come and eat us".
What a shame, not a mention of the Kardashians or Scientology on that disk. If they travel all this way...
Im sure they'll be pissed.
Believe that the Voyager golden record carried some examples of Classical Music,such as compositions by Beethoven,Chopin,Mozart,and Tchaikovsky,if I,m not mistskened,friends.Whatever,it,s now billions of miles from Earth,going into interstellar space!
It's interesting to note that, in the original Star Trek series, Captain Kirk and his crew were also on a five-year mission.
This was a pretty good video. I figured it was Voyager from the title but is so amazing to think that we have intentionally sent something so far away and still have contact.
It's quite possible that those probes will never travel interstellar distances. Our space travel technology will advance enough to overtake them, recover them and bring them back to Earth to be put in a museum long before they go that far.
Francois Lacombe you have been watching too many science fiction movies
@@dev89368 Maybe, but the physics involved are well understood, and there's nothing in them that would preclude such a scenario, so I prefer to be an optimist about that one. 🙂
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I remember when the Pioneer spacecraft were launched. There were actually some people who were upset about the plaques. They were worried that they would allow evil space aliens to find us.
Some things never change.
Imagine it crashes on a planet after millions of years, is found by caveman aliens who proceeds to immediately smash the record...
I absolutely love your vids!
9:29 "In 1986 Voyager arrived at... Uranus."
What can I say, it was one hell of a party.
Carl was a brilliant scientist and wonderful story teller. He was also fond of a joint.
Humans do not need outside sources to demise itself. Help our Mother Earth is and should be the primary goal. Period
The chance of the Golden Record being found by civilized beings is so small that it's like buying a really expensive lottery ticket and throwing it away before finding out whether you won.
Seeker: Oracle, are we alone in the universe?
Oracle: Yes
Seeker: So there's no other life out there?
Oracle: There is. They're alone too.
Lmao
I’d hate to imagine that extraterrestrials found everything we sent out and looked at what we call, “Love.” Only for them to see it as weakness if by some chance they only mate due to other factors that we don’t fully agree or understand. The music and we’ve sent quite a few different styles, genres and from different time periods however might be interesting. To see their reaction to that would be priceless
imagine, a few million years in the future, a probe is passing by a planet and is recovered by the people living there. they bring the ancient probe carefully out of orbit and examine it thoroughly. after a few months of analysis, they go "shit, it's voyager, i guess we overtook it. false alarm everyone."
This is a very heartwarming and romantic story.
"Send more Chuck Berry." :P
Imagine if some of the meteors that have burned up in earths atmosphere have been probes sent from other civilizations like the voyager probes. Their “gold record” burned up before we could ever see them...
Every time some program comes up about the Voyager Golden Record, I'm always (amazingly) surprised that I find out more than I had known before. Thank you for this presentation of an endlessly fascinating object and NASA space mission. I'll have to check out some of the references listed.
You forgot "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" by 20's blues man Blind Willie Johnson. He was blinded at the age of 7 when his step mother threw lye in his eyes after she had been caught in bed with another man... He died penniless in the ruins of his house that had burnt down. It's a sad story, but his voice is cruising the cosmos.
I can just see the aliens..."Oh..I see..we need a tone arm..and a spindle..and a set of speakers!"
You know what's sad. That the disk contains positive things so if advance life does find it and visits all they're going to see is seething hatred and malice and probably gonna get shot at.
Earthlings needs to keep sending these out.
the way it's spoken sounds like he's saying the blob alf, and I thought alf's not a blob before I realized he was listing aliens, the blob, alf or predator!
They included the whale greeting that way other advanced civilizations wouldn't have to travel back in time to acquire whales.
Oops, wrong Star Trek movie, sorry.
There be whales here!
So advanced that they need 3 backup systems on their made in Taiwan equipment that malfunctions after 1 surge of energy (I actually looked at the "made in tag" in one of their shuttles at the Las Vegs Hilton Ride)
The aliens would probably like Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon
A lot of the songs selected for the Voyager record were meant to embody specific human emotions, happiness, anger, fear etc. One song was chosen to represent loneliness: "Dark was the night, cold was the ground" by Blind Willie Johnson. It's a short song, a simple refrain on a guitar, and Johnson humming along slowly and somberly. Thinking about the Voyager probe, the furthest humanities ambition has ever traveled, sailing silently into that unyielding void I'm hard pressed to think of a more appropriate piece of music to capture that image. Just an unimaginable, overpowering loneliness, to be so by oneself so very far away.
The company that said the Beatles song couldn't be sent to space really dropped the ball on that one.
I have a copy of this ^^ Best thing I ever kickstarted.
The idea of us mere humans "joining an interstellar community" is so profound and meaningful, it made me choke up a bit. Wouldn't it be nice to see us achieve something that big and powerful?
Take all your gods and little ideas and step aside because THAT would mark mankind down as one of the meaningful and useful civilizations and it would mean we have actually met and communicated with an actual sophisticatedly intelligent lifeform from another place in this endless universe. If you still see someone praying after that, I can't help them...
It would be a "happily ever after" to all the things we messed up before...
I would love to see aliens dancing to Johnny B. Goode!
I actually found myself tearing up at Carter's message.
That's actually a great use for gold. Gold, the intrinsically valuable element.
There may be places in the universe where gold is as common as sand is here and sand as rare as gold is here.
The project is completely over-the-top with basically a negligible chance of ever paying off. It'll either drift in space forever, get sucked into the gravitational pull of a star or gas giant and crushed, or be stuck on an inhabitable planet.
The whole point isn't utility, but rather making a message. A statement about mankind.
So basically this was a really expensive space-y art experiment by a bunch of space enthusiasts. (Or rather, one space enthusiast and his circle of friends)
As always, even when I think I know a subject, you seem to be able to dig up more content.
Still waiting to see: Today I found out about Today I Found Out
I need a custom Simon Whistler recorded message, how cool would that be!
That's a Patreon reward
2:04 best sentence ever lol
''the probes could do the same with Uranus'' Just quoting this.
I got the box set of this on vinyl, it’s great.
Pioneer 1 and 2 are actually farther out than the Voyager probes. The difference is Voyager 1 and 2 are still transmitting signals, long after it was thought they'd cease.
"Of course we can't license any Beatles for your little science project - what if something found it? That'd be a lost sale!"
Wow, something (well, someone) from my hometown (Ithaca)... Always saw my hometown as a very small place.
We'll probably make it to another star system ourselves before Voyager does.
Aw yes. The thing that Megatron uses to bring Megatron back to change history.
Amazing. Sagan was a genius
Predictor meets Chuck Berry!😁🎸
The following statement is based on the pessimism I currently feel: what a friggin waste of time and money the whole ordeal was.
What happens when the Klingons receive such a sappy disc? A blueprint for our weaknesses and seemingly peaceful nature? I hope they snuck in some images of war and plagues and death machines... Just to give the would-be conquerors pause...
They'd probably immediately use it for target practice like they did Pioneer.
Two mentions of Uranus and not a single pun or joke about it. That has got to be a new record.
This sounds like a prequel story to where aliens come to eat the tasty creatures who just sent them a menu. :p Either, something out of Douglas Adams's catalog of stories or perhaps the anime "The promised neverland".
one of the biggest mistakes humanity has ever made , "oh no lets just advertise our location and information for any random superior space capable race to find"
I wish I was on the planet that discovers this, that would be exciting.
Just to think, that even if there was a slight chance that it'll be found, we could never truly know. Or even be around for contact. Really makes me feel small and insignificant, which, whether or not I like to admit it, I am. As we all are. Just a flash in the pan on a galactic scale we'll never be able to comprehend.
👏 on 2M subs
The first teenagers who steal an unattended mass-ion-drive ship are gonna jet out and hijack one of those craft, repaint it with "V'ger" and send it spiraling back at us.
What's on the B-side? Disco Duck?
Call it personal bias, but I reckon a really fitting song to send would have been Pink Floyd's "Echoes".
I agree! But then they'd have had to tape a bong to the exterior of the craft 😁
I dunno if you'd need that, by one definition Voyager is already the highest ever man-made object.