Murmurs of Earth
The Voyager Interstellar Record

This book deals mostly with the contents and the reasoning behind them for the golden records sent on Voyager probes. Just imagine the task. You have a bit more than a year to meet the precise launch window and you have to compose the message for an extraterrestrial and put it on a medium that has t......more

When the Voyager spacecraft were designed to visit the Outer Planets and eventually interstellar space, the scientists had an opportunity to attach a record of all of human existence. After much careful thought they placed information from the broadest spectrum of all human cultures and forms of expr......more

Murmurs of Earth, (diterbitkan tahun 1978) berisi essai dan dokumentasi dari The Voyager Interstellar Mission, yang merupakan rangkaian misi luar angkasa Amerika Serikat. Misi ini meliputi peluncuran dua pesawat angkasa tak berawak, yaitu Voyager 1 & 2 yang diluncurkan tahun 1977. Tujuan misi ini un......more

One of the coolest books I’ve ever read. For a long time now I’ve had a fascination with the Voyager missions that gave us so much of the knowledge and photos of the outer planets that are so familiar to us nowadays, but the Golden Record on the spacecraft is especially inspiring. This book describe......more

There’s little more awe-inspiring an exercise than reflecting on the practically infinite span of the universe, and one of humanity’s most aspirational efforts to date has to be the creation of the Voyager Golden Record. The disc contains messages of greeting, music and the sounds of Earth, and seek......more