Stuff about the golden record on the Voyager spacecraft. Did you know that it includes a slideshow, and symbolic language on the record's cover attempts to explain the video track's encoding scheme? Clicking through the slides made me feel all mushy inside. (Also, it reminded me of one of my favorite scenes from the movie Contact, except in reverse. Or with unknowable alien scientists in the roles of Jodie Foster & co.)
I dunno, if I was an interplanetary traveller whose first exposure to humans was stuff like this (http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/images/image027.gif) or especially this (http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/images/image061.gif), I'd be very confused indeed!
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