The Voyager Golden Record: A reminder that we are all connected

The Voyager Golden Record shot into space in 1977 with a message from humanity to the cosmos – and decades later, it stands as a reminder that we are all connected.
The United Nations displays a replica of the Golden Record at its Headquarters, and shares a deep connection to the process of creating it. A NASA committee asked the UN to provide materials to include on the playlist, and the first words on the Record itself are those of the then-UN Secretary-General expressing hope for peace and friendship with whoever discovers and plays it.
Bill Nye “The Science Guy,” CEO of the Planetary Society, walks viewers through how to decipher the Golden Record, its significance today, and how reverence for the universe can inspire action for our planet.
This aligns with the ongoing work of the United Nations to promote international cooperation in the peaceful use and exploration of space.
The Director of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, Simonetta Di Pippo, explains the significance of the Golden Record in our world now. “The undertaking of the Voyager project reminds us of who we are, where we came from, and that we should treat each other with care.”

[greenbanana]

The elocution of what this project was, The fact that we decided to include something like these artifacts of ourselves, to, in some small way say to the universe: _"we were humans, we lived on a planet we called Earth, and we are reaching out along the vastness of time and space to let you know we existed, and this is a very small part of who we were."_
This as always makes me tear up. Really.

[williamtezen]

you know what would be depressing? that if somehow in the far future, our civilisation not only survives, but thrives, and we start to explore the universe, we find a strange machine. Hopeful that we are not alone, we examine the artefact inside, and find instructions leading to... home.

[GoogleAccount-lhhg]

3:50 This hits hard :<

Imagine an alien from millions of years into the future and found the humanity's work (voyagers) with a message of it that reminds about us humans that went extinct million years ago .
everything is nothing but memory....

[cheeriosaregood]

I can't wait to have my future self flying around in space accidentally coming across this old record.

[MuhammadImran]

Aliens arrive.

Human: So how was the record we gave?

Aliens: What record? You mean the Red Tesla Roadster?

[richtigmann]

It's crazy to think about the idea of alien life one day finding and trying to decipher these records

[NayefQatar]

Imagine this record miraculously landed safely on a planet (soft gravity) and there were aliens who just recently learned how to make fire 🔥

[spazkong]

I love the Golden Record. Especially the tribal and nature recordings

[DurvalLacerda]

Can you imagine if the opposite happened? We, humans, find a "machine" that was sent, millions and millions of years ago, into the infinite space by a long gone civilization...
I just want to live to see it all.

[murksalot]

The thought of Voyager 1 safely landing on a planet full of aliens who are still banging rocks together to make pointed ones always makes me laugh.

I imagine them carelessly disassembling it to make spears or something

[shpoogieboogie]

2:41 “When you write that message your writing it for yourself” That hits hard

[paus]

the aliens probably use it as a frisbee

[juliansaiz]

The golden record is super poetic to me

[aquafishsoup]

One day when they find it, and come looking for us, they’ll see a giant flaming planet.

[palzer]

millions of years later, when the disc would have outlived our entire civilization, if some intelligent life somewhere out there finds this and looks deep into its trajectory to find our solar system and the earth of 1970.. and by that logic may have already seen our world a million years later before most of us were even born .. is amazing..

[marsoelflaco]

On one hand this is a creative, hopeful and friendly gesture towards our alien neighbors. On the other, it is a classic example of "intellectual human" arrogance and presumption.
Most humans would have no idea what he or she is looking at. Yet human scientists think that ET's would have the physical and intellectual ability to figure it out.
Let's face it, there are hieroglyphs on cave walls and other artifacts made by our ancient ancestors they we can't figure out. ✌🏽👍🏽

[siddhantsinghakumar]

11 Indian languages featured in the list of the greetings in beautiful languages of our planet which went with the Voyager. ❤️

[thunnerplays]

Imagine we're not just the only humans. There could be underdeveloped civilization. THIS IS AMAZING!!¡

[gdmagical]

POV, your an alien watching this video to figure out how to invade earth.

[airbourn]

Reminded me Star Trek TNG episode "The Inner Light".

Really quite beautiful.