Listen to the sounds NASA sent into space for aliens to hear

Jul28

by Sindy Cator on July 28, 2015 at 8:31 am

It’s been a big month for alien enthusiasts. First Stephen Hawking backed a $100 million fund to get serious about our search for extraterrestrial life, now NASA has posted the ‘Golden Record’ up on Soundcloud. What is the ‘Golden Record’? It’s the collection of sounds that NASA selected to be sent on the Voyager spacecraft that launched in 1977. The intention was to take impressions of our world right out to the edge of interstellar space. Carl Sagan chaired the committee to decide what sounds were included. He said of the effort: The spacecraft will encountered the record played only if there…