In addition to sending business cards and telegrams to outer planets with the help of Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 planetary probes, the United States launched Voyager 2 and“Voyager 1”Twospacecraft, two spaceships each have a gold plated copper card called "Voice of the Earth"CDThis gold record carries the human and universeGalaxyThe mission of communication.
The Traveler Gold Record was made with two ships in 1977Traveler detectorA record sent into space.The album contains sounds and images used to express various cultures and life on the earth, hoping to be discovered by other extraterrestrial intelligent creatures in the universe.It will take 40000 years for the Voyager probe to approach the nearest star.The "closest" here refers to the distance of 1.7 light years, so if the record is not found during the voyage, it will be at least 40000 years before it can be found.Because the detector is too small compared with this vast universe, it will only be captured under extremely abnormal conditions.If you arethe outer spaceIf other life is discovered, it will also be in the distant future.So this record seems to be a symbolic record, more than an attempt to seriously communicate with aliens.
In July 2023, the master tape of the "gold record" carried on the detector will be auctioned at Sotheby's auction house. The master tape will be produced by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan (note: the master tape is auctioned, not the gold record).[1]
The contents of the album are recorded byCornell UniversityAn American country headed by Carl SaganAerospaceIt is decided by the board committee.The committee selected 115 images and various sounds of nature.Including waves, wind, thunder, bird singing andwhaleThe singing of animals, including animal calls, etc.In addition, they also selected music from different cultures and ages, blessing sentences spoken by people on earth in 55 different languages, and printed words from President Carter and the timeSecretary General of the United NationsMessage from Kurt Waldheim.
At NASA, we received public comments onPioneer plaques After the criticism of drawing a pair of nude male and female images with lines above, the General Administration no longer approved Sagan and his colleagues to include the photos of a nude male and a nude pregnant woman in the record, and replaced them with the outline of a pair of men and women.(Jon Longber's Pictures of Earth were included in Carl Sagan's Murmurs of Earth 1978, New York,ISBN0679744444）
President Carter placedTraveler detectorExcerpt from the message on: "We put this message into the universeGalaxyOf the 200 billion stars, some... hopefully there are many... planets with people or civilizations of space travelers.If one of the civilizations captures the traveler detector and understands the contents of the record, then this is our message: we try to live in our time, and perhaps one day we will live in your time.We hope that one day, after solving the problems we are facing, we can unite to become a galaxy civilization.This record represents our hope, our determination and our goodwill in this vast universe. "
115 images on the record are based onanalog signalIncluded in.After that, various sounds were recorded, suitable for playing at the speed of 16 2/3 revolutions per minute.It includes blessing sentences in 55 languages.It was said 6000 years ago in SumerAkkadianAnd four Chinese dialects.
55 languages
Here are 55 languages from all over the world included in the gold albumgreetings：
After the blessing sentence, it contains all kinds of voices from the earth, a 90 minute song from different cultures, including thingsclassical music's songs:
Germany Bach "Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, first movement", by Munich Bachphilharmonic orchestraPerformed byKarl Richter Command.4:40
Java-"Varieties of Flowers", played by Pura Paku Alaman in Kamelang, by KR. Directed by T. WasitodipuroRobert BrownRecord.4:43
Senegal - Percussion music, recorded by Charles Duvelle.2 min 08 s
Germany/England Beethoven "FifthsymphonyThe first movement ", by the Philharmonic OrchestraOtto Klemperer Command.7 minutes and 20 seconds
Bulgaria-"ИблелеДелел хайдутин" (Izlel je Delyo Hajdutin) was sung by Valya Balkanska.4:59
United States - Navajo Indians, Nocturne, recorded by Rhodes.57 seconds
England - Anthony Hoburn's "Fairy Surround" comes from "Pavan Dance, Triple Time Dance, German Folk Dance and Other Short Tunes", and is played by David Monroe and the London Classical Music Ensemble.1 minute 17 seconds
In 2006, the Voyager probe will be the third and fourth man-made object to leave the entire solar system.actuallyPioneerThe planned No. 10 and No. 11 were launched into space in 1972 and 1973 respectively, earlier than the Voyager Probe's separation from the sun's gravity, and carrying a small piece of pioneer gilded aluminum plate to illustrate the time and place of their launch, so as to facilitate any discovery of them in the near futureSpace exploreridentification.
NASA has designed a more complex and detailed message board based on the example of pioneers, which is placed on the traveler detector.The new message board is more like aTime capsuleWe intend to tell other creatures in outer space about the world we live in.Just like the former President of the United StatesJimmy CarterHe once said:
"This is a gift from a small, far away world. It marks our voice, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and feelings. We try to live in our time, and maybe one day we will live in your time."
Voyager 1Launched in 1977 and passedPlutoFinally left the track in November 2004solar system(subject to leaving the impact boundary), so the detector is now in a hollow space.After about 40000 years, it and itsSister shipVoyager 2 will arrive 1.7 light-years away from the solar system: Voyager 1 will encounterUrsa MinorAC+79 3888 of star cluster;And Voyager 2 will be close toandromedaGalacticRoss 248。
Although the design of the two travelers is the same, their sailing tracks are different.In May 2005, Voyager 1 will travel 87 billion miles from the sunAstronomical unitSpeed forward.Voyager 2 will travel 65 billion miles from the sun at a speed of 3.3 astronomical units per year.One astronomical unit is equal to the distance between the earth and the sun, that is, 93 million miles.
Voyager 1 has entered the solar sheathTerminal shock waveAnd the heliospheric zenith.Terminal seismic wave refers tosolar wind, that is, from the sunatmosphereEjectedCharged particle flow, due to contact withInterstellar gasAnd slow down.Outside the terminal shock wave, the speed of the solar wind will suddenly drop from the average speed of 300 to 700 kilometers per second (that is, 700000 to 15 million miles per hour), and its density and temperature will gradually increase.
As Dr. Sagan said, "If there is an advanced space civilization in the universe, the detector will be met and played. But sending this" bottle "to the" ocean "of the universe is a wish for life on this planet."
Others point out that the civilization that the probe will encounter is just us. Maybe we will find it again and put it in the space museum in a few years.
Production background
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Most of the images (produced in black and white) on the record, together with the edited materials, can be published in 1978 by Carl Sagan, Frank DrakeAnn Druyan Timothy Ferris, Jon Lombo and Linda Sullivan in their book The Whispers of the Earth: Voyager Star Record.andCD-ROMThe version iswarner New media was launched in 1992.Both versions have stopped reprinting, but the 1978 version is still available in many colleges orpublic libraryYou can find it in.
In July 1983, the BBC Radio 4 broadcast a 45 minute recording of "Music from a Small Planet", in which Sagan and Drujan explained the process of selecting music for the record and gave a brief introduction to this excerpt.But this recording vocal cord isbbcThe original recording soundtrack ofNational Public RadioIt is unknown that it was introduced.
Part of the sound recording of the "Voice of the Earth" in this gold record also includes a section withMorse code Expression, encouraging words: ad astra per aspera.LatinThe road to the starry sky is full of difficulties.
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The gold record of the traveller depicted in the action movie "Alien Love" was found by the highly intelligent extraterrestrial creatures, who also sent their records to investigate the creatures on the earth. [But they replaced "Johnny B. Good" with "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones (I can't be satisfied)
The Voyager Probe and Gold Record appeared in the "Parasites Lost" (the disappearance of parasites), one of the episodes of the animation "Is a Future".When Lena stopped at the Milky Way cargo station, she pulled the detector away from the windshield of her ship.
In Beast Wars (translated from mainland China into Super Warrior) in the Transformers series, the prototype of the "gold disk" stolen by Tyrannosaurus Rex, the leader of the villain primitive beast, is the gold record of Voyager.This golden disk is the most closely protected treasure on Cybertron, the home star of Transformers.It can point out the location of the energy source, that is, the location of the earth. At the same time, this gold disk also contains a secret message left by Megatron, the leader of the Decepticon, the ancestor of the primitive beast, to the decepticon offspring.
In one segment of the US NBC longevity program Saturday Night Variety, Steve Martin announced that he had received the message from aliens.After interpretation, the message was: "Please send more Chuck Berry"
Part of the cover of the gold album appeared in the movie Star Trek, which is part of V'ger.However, the Traveler Gold Record was obviously not put on the fictional "Traveler 6" detector in the film.
In one episode of the TV series "X Files", "Little Green Man", you can hear a short excerpt from the Traveler Gold Record.
In Ron Herbert's novel "Earth Battlefield", the discovery of the Traveler's Gold Record led the evil alien Psychlo to the earth.
In the 31st episode of the animation "Symphonic Psalms", Dr. Greg Egan showed a copy of the gold record in his laboratory.
In one episode of the TV series The White House, "The Battle of Genghis Khan", Josh Lehmann mentioned the gold record (although he did not mention the name) in the reference provided by Blind Willy.
