We decoded NASA’s messages to aliens by hand
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In 1977, twin golden records were sent into space on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. Still sailing through space at nearly 60,000 km per hour, the records contain sound, songs, and images from earth. But how did NASA include images on an analog record? Here, we decoded the audio, and see the images the way that aliens were intended to see them.
Special thanks to Ron Barry for walking us through his own audio decoding process, which got us excited in the story over a year ago. You can read about his own adventure and watch his process produce results in real-time in his own video in the links below:
https://boingboing.net/2017/09/05/how-to-decode-the-images-on-th.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibByF9XPAPg&feature=youtu.be
Link to Manuel’s code on GitHub:
https://github.com/aizquier/voyagerimb
Link to the full audio data:
https://soundcloud.com/user-482195982/voyager-golden-record-encoded-images
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Special thanks to Ron Barry for walking us through his own audio decoding process, which got us excited in the story over a year ago. You can read about his own adventure and watch his process produce results in real-time in his own video in the links below:
https://boingboing.net/2017/09/05/how-to-decode-the-images-on-th.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibByF9XPAPg&feature=youtu.be
Link to Manuel’s code on GitHub:
https://github.com/aizquier/voyagerimb
Link to the full audio data:
https://soundcloud.com/user-482195982/voyager-golden-record-encoded-images
The Verge’s sponsors play an important role in funding our journalism, but do not influence editorial content. For more information about our ethics policy, visit https://www.theverge.com/ethics-statement.
Subscribe: http://bit.ly/2FqJZMl
Like Verge Science on Facebook: http://bit.ly/2hoSukO
Follow on Twitter: http://bit.ly/2Kr29B9
Follow on Instagram: https://goo.gl/7ZeLvX
Read More: http://www.theverge.com
Community guidelines: http://bit.ly/2D0hlAv
Subscribe to Verge on YouTube for explainers, product reviews, technology news, and more: http://goo.gl/G5RXGs
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