Voyager 1, the first human-made craft to enter interstellar space, carries a golden record of Earth’s music and greetings — a message launched into the dark, even though it will not pass near another

Voyager 1, the first human-made object to cross into interstellar space, carries a gold-plated copper phonograph record holding music, spoken greetings, and the sounds of Earth. The popular description is that it is a message to aliens. The people who assembled it understood it as something more modest and more honest, and the timescales involved […] Voyager 1, the first human-made object to cross into interstellar space, carries a gold-plated copper phonograph record holding music, spoken greetings, and the sounds of Earth. The popular description is that it is a message to aliens. The people wh... [4386 chars]