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Carl Sagan cared, punks! Looking back at 35 years of the Voyager 1 probe
09.05.2012
08:48 pm
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Today is the “birthday” of the launch of the Voyager 1, the farthest traveling man-made object we have sent into space to date and an amazing piece of research equipment that continues to provide us with immeasurably meaningful information about our universe.  If you’re one of those arty nerd types like myself (who frankly, always had trouble with physics), you may well know it as the “Noah’s Arc” of mankind. Voyager 1 contained “The Golden Record”, a collection of mathematical equations, music, speech, and sounds that could someday be the first representative of humans to other life-forms, (“Murmurs of Earth - The Voyager Interstellar Record” has a more in depth assessment of the content). Ann Druyan (whose brain and body sounds are also on the record), was head of the Voyager Interstellar Message Project, the initiative behind the cultural message in a bottle. In one of the most lovely science romances of all time (I dare you to think of a better one), she and Carl Sagan fell in love over their mutual work on the project.  They were married until his death in 1996.

And now, some words from my favorite pothead, waxing romantic on the universe, from his Cosmos: Carl Sagan series, co-written with Druyan.
 

Posted by Amber Frost
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09.05.2012
08:48 pm
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