Here...
https://soundcloud.com/nasa
When NASA launched the two Voyager probes in 1977, it knew that they were on a one-way journey into the galaxy. So on the off chance they encountered another sentient species, NASA equipped both with a golden record full of information about Earth. When we say record, think vinyl, grooves in a disk and the need for a stylus to …
"NASA has now dumped all of the Golden Record's contents to SoundCloud for your listening and downloading pleasure."
All, except all the music. It seems to be just the greetings, audio clips, and noises. As far as I can see, none of the Voyager's Golden Record music is included. Please correct me if I've overlooked it.
We can send a spaceship to the edge of the solar system and beyond, but we can't avoid the copyright lawyers.
"We can send a spaceship to the edge of the solar system and beyond, but we can't avoid the copyright lawyers."
So your idea is that, if Carl Sagan picks some music to be put on a disk and sent into deep space, then the rightsholders to that music somehow forfeit their rights here on earth? How does that work, exactly?
That's not the question. The questions are does Voyager have rights for each area of deep space it passes through, is there a reliable way of generating audience figures that a fair fee for radio broadcasts can be determined, and finally can pressure be bought to bear on the Kuiper Belt so they set up a collection agency or should they be put on the "they do not respect our intellectual property" shitlist?
1. Send copyrighted works to the far edges of the universe
2. Wait
3. This could take a while
4. Let the rights holders detect any copyright infringement *
5. Set the copyright lawyers onto the alien scum!
* How? Generally, they make the evidence up.
So, the aliens arrive, send greetings and land...
And are promptly served with indictments from lawyers. 'You've got an FTL drive? No, no, that's not licensed by Earth, you'll have to stop using it immediately. We already copyrighted that when they made Star Trek. Stop flying those things. Small fast ships with guns? Sorry, we did the rights to that when they made Battlestar Galactica. Communicators that you wear? You're bang out of luck there, mate, Babylon 5 did those. Shut them down... and now let's talk about the penalty fees, and our bill of course...'
You want proof of intelligent life in the Galaxy? None of it's tried to talk to us, and that's proof enough for me.
The Bulgarian song that is included in the compilation is a folklore one. It is on youtube, as well. All of us know it and all of us love it. For you to know and feel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lJYq6bjHTQ
Greetings from Bulgaria to all Register readers :)
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Well communication depends on redundancy. Imagine you were an alien scholar and you'd have some idea on what those weird symbols mean. If you have only the minimum of distances, you end up with the "Dutch Bikecycle"-Problem. You can make up anything with some numbers.
If, however you have a hypothesis on that image, and it fits more than the minimum amount of data, you have an actual theory. That's also why the information on how to read the images contains one of the test images, a circle. It helps to give redundancy as confirmation.
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"The sound quality's not going to give any audiophile aliens out there a reason to hotfoot it in our direction"
I can recommend a superduper whizbang high quality cable to improve upon that.