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The Photos We Send Into Space

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NASA Voyager pictures male and female

Voyager 1 and 2 were both launched in the late 70s and were remarkable successes for NASA. One important thing that everyone worried about was, what about the aliens?

What if aliens decided that our research vessels were weapons from our planet, traced back the trajectory, and sent an armada of angry-looking ships to ravage our planet?


Luckily, Carl Sagan was on the case.

Sagan helmed a committee that placed a golden record on both vessels, instructions to play the record and the location of the Earth. The record contained pictures that we hoped would show the aliens how awesome we were.

In effect, anyway. The phots illustrate some of our most fundamental concepts: math, DNA, the idea of a family. It's an interesting idea, trying to pick out images that might help an alien society understand us.

Voyager 1 and 2 golden record images

The images are fascinating, as they illustrate what we've accumulated in 4 billion years of evolution. Would it be necessary to update the images now, with pictures of the Internet?

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The Imperials - Can You Imagine

I recently put on the Daft Punk DVD, Interstella 5555, and thought I'd post about one of my favourite tunes off their album, Discovery, for motivation. Because I need it!

The song Crescendolls samples this track by The Imperials, a 1950s doowop band that turned a little funky in the 60s-70s. I'm talking about the 'chorus' that Daft Punk use all throughout their song, when it hits the second time on Can You Imagine, it's really special


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Have You Ever Been? [To Electric Ladyland]

I was watching a doco on Jimi Hendrix and at the credits they played a solo-guitar version of this song, so I had to track it down.

No vocals, just gentle Fender


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