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   Message 44,701 of 45,986   
   Greg Goss to Mike Dworetsky   
   Re: A message and a bottle   
   05 Dec 16 09:07:27   
   
   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   "Mike Dworetsky"  wrote:   
   >Greg Goss wrote:   
      
   >> Sagan and his pals were pretty smart people.  The Pioneer plaque was   
   >> put together in a hurry.  The Voyager equivalent were given   
   >> considerable time to come up with how to do it.   
   >   
   >The plaque was similar. But the Voyager package included a phonograph record   
   >of the sounds of Earth (including the famous greeting from Kurt Waldheim,   
   >used in the film "Starman") and simple instructions (without language, like   
   >an Ikea set of drawn instructions for cabinet assembly) on how to listen to   
   >it.   
      
   I believe that the second side of the record had images encoded   
   somehow.   
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