We decoded NASA’s messages to aliens by hand

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.
Video by: Cory Zapatka, William Poor, Sophie Erickson
Graphics: Alex Parkin
Audio: Andrew Marino
Executive Producers: Nilay Patel, Eleanor Donovan
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General Manager: Stephen Belser
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Thanks to: Alessandra Potenza, Ron Barry
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[@VergeScience]

What images or sounds would you send to aliens?

[@bluesun_0]

Certainly not a Justin's Bieber song.

[@HahtaanDaetori]

An image of our solar system or images of volcanoes or other things that may occur on our planet and the aliens planet

[@addaccount9246]

Certainly a queens songs

[@ralpherichchan]

Happy Birthday Cory! 😃

[@georgplaz]

a photo of my latest meal at that fancy restaurant everyone is talking about ;o)

[@GmodAdict]

The way I’ve always seen the Golden Record isn’t “a message to the stars” but more a “If we are here no longer, we were still here”

[@Totally_Bonkers]

Damn, that message is kind of better

[@abhishektarun09]

that's deep

[@niichisann]

That actually makes more sense, because by the time it reaches another star system (IF that happens), humanity might be long gone.

[@fluffypuffyboy586]

yeah like the graphity people spray "i was here" but instead "humans where here"

[@TheLordOfBeans]

We wuz here -human

Alien finding the Golden Disc : "Awesome, free gold!" *melts the disc*

[@Beeper332]

That's what I'm saying. what if there cave men and just destroy it.

[@syauqilintang4970]

well but gold isnt that rare in space so...yeah ._.

[@pwe...2626]

@@syauqilintang4970 isn't rare but we still value it, if we value it why can't they?

[@Heisler146]

@@pwe...2626 they might not, a scivilian that has the ability to detect and intercept the probe would be sufficiently advanced, advanced enough to astroid mine, making gold rather cheap. They could be plating their spaceships with gold since it’s a cheap heat shield to them

[@sonroj4157]

@@Heisler146 Nah, gold no an spaceship, I don’t think so, gold is not an strong material, maybe they could use it in different tecnology.

[@chachcadi271]

Alien 1: why are there so many weird symbols? Alien 2: Did you think they were going to speak English like us?

[@spike480p]

Alien speak using english wtf

[@Anonymous-tm7jp]

Aliens speaking in English? That means Britain must have colonized the entire galaxy at some point. *LAUGHS IN BRITISH*

[@lasajnae9626]

@@Anonymous-tm7jp my brain just got colonized after reading this

[@rachelcookie321]

@WoodChipings that was the joke

[@shravankhedekar3302]

@@Anonymous-tm7jp what if Britishers are actually aliens send to the earth to colonize it?

[@eclipse4376]

Its so insane how someone actually knew how to create this disc, just every single tiny thing with the very limited amount of tech for the time is so impressive

[@Sda-vh1or]

Government: sends Golden discs to space Alien government: hides it from their public

[@brianpatrickofficial]

S 2 da 685 11.12.11 that’s exactly what our got damn government does 😂

[@tapatiolays4174]

@@brianpatrickofficial ikr

[@brianpatrickofficial]

TapatioLays yeah it’s pissing me off

[@nidhi4079]

Sounds similar

[@WherDoiLive]

truth, alien polpulation belives we are still cavemen. We are under cuarantine

[@Julio-wr7pz]

Alien: "What do you think this is?" Other Alien: "I don't know, let me open Excel real quick."

[@mujtaba8302]

So we're counting on aliens to decofe it using python or ms excel... Lol

[@syauqilintang4970]

yea, i hope they have the similar program somehow (we didnt even know if they had a computer or not)

[@frederikvilms1281]

@@syauqilintang4970 if we randomly found one like this we'd be having our brightest minds working on deciphering it i think

[@jonathanodude6660]

@@mujtaba8302 did you watch the vid? were counting on them converting decibel values into brightness values, and laying that on a grid.

[@chozer1]

@@jonathanodude6660 bruh you diden't read the instructions´? its easy as cake

[@milkman2143]

Golden Record be like: "John has 2 apples, calculate the mass of the Sun"

[@xcybitt721]

Yea definitely. But maybe it's designed so that the aliens actually are intelligent enough for communication?

[@malcolmweatherby3254]

@@xcybitt721 thats what they're hoping

[@Vivi-sz8pe]

lol HAHSHAHAHAHAH

[@HatiFN]

LMAO

[@notsosolowing1295]

Hmmmm... Hmmmmmmm... 4?

[@joshuekz7243]

Imagine in the future if the aliens that found the record managed to decode it, and when they arrive to our system, the sun would already be a red giant and the earth was eaten by it, that will be depressing.

[@magneticman245]

We should launch other probes that have a golden record, but rather than sending them out into interstellar space, we should put one in orbit around each planet of our solar system. That way, if aliens find our solar system long after the sun has destroyed Earth, they may find a probe near one of the surviving planets and they can be sure they found the right star.

[@twotruckslyrics]

i tapped read more and was jumpscared by that “and the earth was eaten by it” part 😭😭

[@newheadstart]

​@@twotruckslyricspussy

[@kemalistpatriot5228]

​@@magneticman245Jupiter might be the best. Since The Sun is going to be a white dwarf Neptune and Uranus might be too risky since they may leave the solar system. The first 4 planets are also eliminated because The Sun is going to be a red giant at some point. As for Saturn, the rings might damage the probe.

[@emreevo8]

I don't think it will survive for 5 billion years.

[@geraldsittly1512]

- Aliens find disc - Aliens didn't figure out how to decode - Aliens google for decoding methods - Aliens watch this on youtube

[@panchitoborja]

I am the alien

[@jacarijones4395]

amarjaannn your a hater kid make your own joke why you reply lol your like 6

[@lm-]

Ez jo

[@finnis2344]

waylon lewin bruh he wasn’t talking to you lmfao he was replying to amaraannn

[@awesome1ru]

Lawl

[@Leafyu29]

Plot twist: this ends up on a planet where there are other humans and it becomes that planet's biggest mystery.

[@TemptedL9Gaming-Subscribe]

There's a picture of a human from earth that looks just like a dude from that planet

[@astronaut6418]

GUYS STOP. This is giving me a headache

[@ultra_axe7812]

Postiviitea well, they will have our location

[@brandonjames4675]

yeah its happened to us, aliens brought a story/photo of jesus/god and now its our mystery on understanding if its a real thing or a bunk

[@pukk6094]

Brandon James what? I’ve never heard of that?? Edit: don’t believe in it but still curious

[@thatoneindiankid1097]

The catch is that this disk will still be floating around in space when we all are dead. That gives me chills

[@stepdadofacrab5008]

It’ll probably be destroyed by an asteroid or, if it finds its way into a habitable planet, it would burn up in the atmosphere. Maybe it’s already been destroyed, who knows

[@quesopez98]

@@stepdadofacrab5008 it’s almost impossible to be destroyed by asteroids, and I’m pretty sure there are heat shields on it

[@vinzer72frie]

@@stepdadofacrab5008 it will never cross its path anything they will have to catch it moving

[@hazardeur]

@@stepdadofacrab5008 i am sure there is some nerd here that can calculate it better than me but the chance of hitting anythign in space by accident is infinitessmally low. especially if it goes out of the solar system into interstellar space, which it probably already did

[@pjbj12]

IKRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[@MarsFKA]

A billion years from now, when everything that we have ever built on Earth has crumbled into dust, when the continents are changed beyond recognition, and our species is unimaginably altered, or extinct, the Voyager Record will still speak for us. Carl Sagan

[@StormsandSaugeye]

Finally someone else gets it...

[@mrwhatever9025]

True that we have no idea how many times Earth has reset itself.

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

@@mrwhatever9025 Yes we do. Five major times and several minor times. A 6th major time is happening right now.

[@BartvanderHorst]

Or was hit by a rock within a hundred years.

[@roxout5743]

@@BartvanderHorst not a hundred years but in million or billion years i think it could be likely

[@rastari9679]

NASA lowkey tryna promote they mixtape and give them a soundcloud link

[@brivvy]

😂

[@3blindmices]

I’m weakkk

[@Dualusional]

I died as soon as I read it.

[@sooph1e]

LMFAO!!😂😂 Now I kinda want it to be true🤣

[@basstrap6818]

"Gave"

[@help9918]

the golden record is probably earth's most fire mixtape.

[@williamchen1040]

take this dub

[@minotaur953]

It’s a copy of sgt peppers

[@danielgomez2741]

It got gobbled up by a black hole.

[@Will300tv]

It went golden on billboards

[@thewalrus829]

@@minotaur953 Goo goo ga joob

[@Jo4.kinnnn]

The aliens after finding this: *Hey doesn't this look like the Golden Disc we sent a thousand of years ago?*

[@timsohn7057]

Underrated comment lol

[@infinitespecter6998]

Oof we are alone

[@atibaaier5426]

scp 1342 vibes

[@Pikasatupu75]

Imagine Golden Disc coming back to Earth after thousands of years later.

[@allftw2677]

@@Pikasatupu75 we will probably be on earth and other planets aswell , in other solar systems hopefully and beyond

[@freddyflys]

id be terrified if one day this same record gets sent back to us

[@jondoesit1240]

Dude it would be crazy

[@comet.x]

with a note that says 'shut up they'll find you'

[@bryangutierrez4801]

Spoiler, that's the final reveal of the show the signal that just released on Netflix

[@aqmail6036]

Would be hilarious if the reply is just "👍"

[@richardlee5412]

In a Saturday Night Live segment ("Next Week in Review") in episode 64 of the show's third season (originally aired 1978), Steve Martin's character, a psychic named Cocuwa, announced that extraterrestrials had responded to the record with the four words "Send more Chuck Berry"

[@TheFockingTeam]

"Easy to understand" with 3 guys from earth explaining the instructions.

[@Whimsy3692]

They need to have the instructions in Swedish.

[@juanvillalobos9044]

Khe vergas?🤯

[@bensilver28]

With 1 guy that helped design it.

[@drsatyamupadhyay]

"Insanity"

[@bwaaFGC]

Maje vos que haces aqui?

[@7elep]

He had to fly all the way into space to get that disc, This man has some serious dedication.

[@mikeoxmaul45]

Wake me up when someone needs wooooshing

[@cosmiccake791]

Ok

[@khabardar1919]

😂

[@nikolaivikturski4557]

@@mikeoxmaul45 found the redditor

[@princessloveheartglitter]

Was a joke

[@pdawg6949]

Aliens: *find the disc* instead of decoding the image, starts vibin to the noises

[@seelz1136]

task failed successfully

[@carolinacalazans7905]

They be like 😃💃 just dance!! Us: 👁👄👁

[@charles7075]

Bruh😁😂😂😂😂😂

[@azmysalim9144]

Wkwkwk🤣🤣🤣

[@thatdude034]

That's kinda the point though. The disc also contains music.

[@sleepingseb4312]

can't imagine how mad would an alien be when he finds it like wtf why didn't they just send us a picture book

[@XxZigiixX]

Why do you think they used solid gold for the disc?

[@davidlamb1107]

​@@XxZigiixX The same reason -- radiation

[@boardman1061]

*receives “book”..... the aliens are blind*

[@ED3N0229]

@@boardman1061 lmao, I know where you got that from (-、-)

[@omdavbu]

The golden records has a projected shelf life of 2 billion years... I don't think stacked traditional media will last that long.

[@glitz4942]

when aliens play the other side they will be like ' oh man this side is broken '

[@OphelyaGMS]

This comment is super under appreciated.

[@superNova5837]

Lol

[@glitz4942]

@@OphelyaGMS 😅

[@stephenaviaspace5056]

Humans be like meanwhile on earth: I hope they see the pictures. Aliens meanwhile: is this a small model of thunder?

[@jayantahuja1986]

Wah bete, tum to bde heavy driver nikle 🤣🤣🤣

[@MrPartyWaffle]

I can only imagine, through my own feelings, what an alien might be feeling the moment they get that circle. It gives me a feeling of wonder.

[@bgsbrito]

1. Aliens find disc 2. Aliens find earth 3. Sell it to pawn stars 4. Fly away

[@zay3304]

bruno brito 😂😂

[@zefallafez]

Rick brings in expert to authenticate it. Then offers $200 and says there isn't a big market for old records.

[@bgsbrito]

@@zefallafez 👌🏻🤣🤣🤣

[@drumphil2006]

The best I can do is $20 and 78 likes

[@bgsbrito]

@@drumphil2006 sold

[@thejesuschrist]

by far one of my favorite ideas humanity has come up with!

[@angelh8383]

Ay!! What's up, Jesus? :D

[@klipnity]

hey jesus sup

[@IchigoKurosakicool]

Love me some Jésus

[@neskey]

holy jesus it's the real jesus christ ! fun fact: this is the legend who created the jackspecidey 2 meme

[@TheLitCool]

Hallelujah

[@lolbit5119]

imagine if the thing just falls in a black hole

[@girlgarde]

Then 300 years later, it comes back massively upgraded into a giant spaceship who thinks that its creators are fellow robots and that we Humans are an infestation keeping its creators from contacting it so it seeks to wipe us out. Also, it regards organic lifeforms as not true lifeforms even though we talk to its probe, react to whatever it does and do all sorts of things that proves that we're lifeforms. Why? Because it likely absorbed organic hating robots at some point......

[@natplayz1989]

Oof

[@Ob_Bashar]

@@girlgarde V'ger

[@tristansgaming7048]

Then it well be spit back out another one

[@katrinaisoffline]

@@girlgarde that honestly sound like a really good plot.

[@luigidisanpietro3720]

Galactic Imperialist: Hmmm... I wonder which civilization should we conquer next? Assistant: Sir, we found a crude disc that advertises the location of a far away civilization.... Galactic Imperialist: Oh, how convenient!

[@ContinuEntertainment]

NASA: Sends gold disk to aliens Aliens: These idiots don't have email?

[@captainmarvelous1221]

😂😂😂

[@impulserr]

u mean galaxnet? Imagine u send files and upload is done before ur finger finish mouse click

[@someinternetbox168]

riten we wouldn’t be using a mouse

[@emanifung6806]

The Catmother LMAO

[@22subsnovideos98]

Bruh 😂😂😂

[@ThePersonWhoKnocks]

I wonder if aliens would even have the concept of music as we know it, or if they would think our Golden Record is just a collection of strange noises.

[@SpottedHares]

if their smart enough to decode the record then their probably smart enough to deduce that the main band of frequency are the hearing range of the species that made it. and just like we do with whale calls they could distort it into a range that fits their hearing better.

[@LiamDerWandrer]

@@SpottedHares If they have hearing.

[@coconut7630]

if there is a record player

[@gregor_man]

@@coconut7630 On the cover there is a scheme of the record player, suggesting the spiral track and the pick-up. If I were an alien I would examine the plate with microscope, and the groove will be seen. Maybe aliens will examine that with laser or electron microscope, then they're expected to process the réseau manually. (Or aristally :-) ) If the aliens are 400 yards long and live under the mud then the connection of these two civilizations will be failed.

[@klayman2]

@@coconut7630 if a race is advanced enough to find the disc they'll be advanced enough to make a device that can spin a disc lol

[@glavxy7743]

Imagine them playing the image side by mistake -"Damn dude this is a bop."

[@luisgabrieldelmo772]

It's still ok the other side contains something

[@user-ks5gh5dn5c]

When I was in high school, my physics teacher told me that he wouldn’t be surprised that if one day we developed a telescope that could see far enough into the universe only for us to find ourselves staring back into it. I think about that a lot.

[@wolfetteplays8894]

Futurama reference

[@Nonamelol.]

This could have many different interpretations, what did he mean?

[@user-ks5gh5dn5c]

@@Nonamelol. I think he meant how interconnected everything is

[@smeradiotv1319]

She was wise

[@Nonamelol.]

@@smeradiotv1319 He

[@LoganCovers91]

It's quite ironic that this message meant for other alien species can't even be read by 99% of the species that made it.

[@slidex4535]

99.999999999999999

[@ADEehrh]

Maybe we wanted to do our best to look as intelligent as possible.

[@dsp4392]

It definitely highlights how ignorant of the basic laws of our universe most people are. But the message was not meant for any individual to be deciphered, it was meant to have the most chances of any alien _civilization_ to be able to decipher. You can't just send a map to a remote planet and expect any idiot alien to figure it out. The golden record is meant for aliens with a workable knowledge of physics and math, the only potential universal language we know of.

[@stevethea5250]

@@dsp4392 Don't forget the language of love

[@festethephule7553]

@@stevethea5250 Not as prominent as lust with regards to biological organisms. After all, the goal is to reproduce, nothing else. So that's a much more common language between biological organisms.

[@wg3157]

is it just me that’s annoyed by the fact that I will never live to see the day where we find alien life. Im just so curious

[@kingbain5383]

Go find them Gerald you’ll never know if you don’t try.

[@ozmoses2011]

They are all around us . They outnumber us . They are spirit beings doesn't mean they don't exist , they have been watching us all since we started out they were there and they are still there and here and everywhere around us . They are angels , and other creatures of light of Sound and we have seen many times thier actions and they do interact with us on many levels even you even though you don't know it they have .

[@Lava_Girl-]

Maybe it will be disclosed that we already have...I hope.

[@minsin56]

if bacteria on mars isn't enough for you we still have europa there is a really high chance of sea life living in europa so we might find more alien life

[@rachelkingston1539]

Well maybe you’ll be the one who will find alien life.

[@feceh5832]

Imagine gold is extremely rare in their civilization and by sending the disc, we single-handedly crash an alien economy.

[@brandy6040]

the most human thing we would ever have done

[@tyler89557]

We already crash our own economies. What's the economy of an alien civilization or two?

[@berrylicious674]

I've read a comic with aliens that live in a sort of water planet, and their most rare item is "Pulasti" or plastic lol

[@SoshoKozadokaGojiraChargedUp]

BOOM, GOLD BOMB

[@Roozyj]

Honestly, if they find out what it is, I doubt it would be sold. If their civilisation is similar to ours, it will be researched throuroughly, maybe even crowdsourced. And if it were to be sold, I don't think the value would come from the materials.

[@MrGojira95]

Verge: *teaches how to decode the Golden Record* Megatron: Hold my Energon

[@ToaDaGardeKat]

Finally, found one

[@conehead9796]

I was looking for this

[@BlitzStudiosIsinsideyourhome]

Yessss

[@lightflame_669]

lets hope they donate $3 to wikipedia once they find it

[@bena7153]

Lmao

[@markdavidson2607]

Are u nuts wikid loves u.???

[@FelipeVanDerDonckt]

i did

[@abhishekagarwal787]

that's one of the best comments ever

[@saadawan5502]

I almost killed myself laughing 😂😂😂😂

[@ryokautsarchannel8229]

Alien when they found golden record: look! Human still uses these lmao

[@digitalsolution8483]

Haaha

[@MakelBelieve]

🥺be nice 👽

[@StevenAkinyemi]

If they are smart enough to know it is a record, then they are smart enough to know it is outdated.

[@doges_6864]

What if the aliens are simple that just act like animals eat, kill, sleep and dont ride Spaceships *it is possible*

[@axel7541]

@@doges_6864 Then they won't find the record. It's as simple as that. The record is meant to be found by an intelligent specie more advanced than we are today , because there's such a slim chance of the record ending up on a planet, so the aliens are supposed to find it in interstellar space. If there are animal -like aliens out there, this record is not for them.

[@theantichrist6307]

Alien 1: I can't decode this darn thing. Alien 2: Forget it. Let's go blaze it up.

[@boomer19]

**whips disc back into space**

[@nev861]

@@boomer19 yeets disc back into space

[@xyrenaxypot9100]

@@nev861 alien dog caught it

[@thetinysideoftiny7625]

The fuzzy, blurred, black and white images at the end, set to the melancholy blues music was haunting in a beautiful, artful, timeless way. I imagined another race of beings viewing this a million years from now and it gave me chills.

[@bboi1489]

2 billion years later on a distant planet: "Broken Ancient Space disk may have been a message from another planet."

[@dylanplumley280]

Says crazy schizophrenic conspiracy theorist. It is actually a hoax stagged by teenagers.

[@avistroian9598]

or the golden record might be the only evidence left to prove that human beings once existed

[@yoyoezzijr]

Avis Troian true

[@IKenexPSN]

man this made me think 🥺

[@oikawaaa1527]

this need more likes

[@dosmastrify]

Nah, elons orbital car will remain

[@jellyboy123]

unless it just burn up in a sun or something.

[@bashergamer_]

Imagine one of these words being offensive to aliens lol

[@zinho9169]

@@jakeisfortnite7751 You ever heard of a joke buddy?

[@Glandov]

@Jonathan Rodriguez yo just leave him alone plz.

[@Glandov]

@@kyloren7070 all I'm doing is just to stop cyber teasing. I'm not trying to be a hero. Just doing what all other people should do...

[@jttekton]

ｈｅ ｍｕｓｔ ｂｅ ａ ｐａｒｔｙ ｐｏｏｐｅｒ ｏｏｆ

[@Einargizz]

"I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle."

[@looplooploo]

Nasa: leave a hint to where our planet is Aliens: Ha we got em boiss

[@sin4477]

if they ever invade nasa gets taken out first

[@christianreynolds1324]

This makes me rethink all the crazy symbolism in ancient Egypt and other civilizations around the world.

[@notforeverbg1276]

Imagine if aliens found this and they said, "its another one of those insects trying to talk to us, just throw it in the pile of discs from the insects"

[@ButWhyMe...]

I have no doubt that if aliens (the smart ones) actually made contact with us, it will end just like Christopher Columbus. Or at the most, they will think of us like animals or insects.

[@Shzy.]

What if in those insects (our created imaginary god exists?)

[@ButWhyMe...]

@@Shzy. Nothing? Tbh I don't think anything would happen. But am I glad to see someone (else) who sees god as imaginary!

[@Shzy.]

@@ButWhyMe... because it doesn't make sense God here on earth matches every (fantasy) of humans! Be slave then you're good if not then you will end up in hell These concepts sound like ancient events rather than a God who is running entire and beyond Universe God can't be that small man! Nah universe is so diverse and our concept are so tiny on earth!

[@crispywings9066]

@@Shzy. shut up

[@towerbunga]

Imagine it in reverse, a golden record game from space with information about another species and a load of strange sounds and languages. We'd freak the hell out

[@NotNochos]

“Let the decoding begin.”

[@themanman1549]

Dude imagine if a space company sent a ton of these rockets with a game on it to show about us

[@SauronTheDarkLordOfMordor]

The voyager is so.... human. The whole decode thinking is so human

[@ISometimesAgree]

@@SauronTheDarkLordOfMordor No the whole decode thinking is just intelligent thinking. For one if a alien species was to find the voyager, they would already know it is coming from an alien race compared to them. So they will have at least 2 thought processes. One is to figure out its purpose, i.e. decode it. Two is to figure out where it came from, i.e. decode it. Either way they will decode it. The only way I can think of that they wouldn't attempt that is if it was to crash land on a planet many thousands or millions of years later, in which case it would be completely destroyed anyway, so nothing to decode. That or they wouldn't attempt to decode it if they were not intelligent enough to understand its alien origin. Regardless, hopefully they wont be the type to decode it and find a planet ripe for colonization.

[@SauronTheDarkLordOfMordor]

@@ISometimesAgree I mean I agree with you but.... the whole intelligence thing..... maybe they are intelligent but still don't know how to decode it or what decoding is. Maybe everything is completely different there and they think differently. That is what I mean with everything being very human.

[@Tarmac_Tales]

Reply from Aliens - K

[@larce4158]

Nah they'd just leave us on read.

[@AardvarkXYZZY]

Who dis?

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

"Send more Chuck Berry!"

[@fiercelypolygons3696]

*5 minutes later* *DESTROY PLANET EARTH, WE MUST CLEANSE IT OF ITS FILTH*

[@N_no1r]

Or it could be worse like "rawr xD"

[@GhullieUser]

The aliens who find this will probably use it as a dinnerplate.

[@jimboland4161]

Ghullie: Ha Ha!! So true!!

[@RaymondHng]

Or an ashtray.

[@gemininiceguymercury9267]

Or a frisbee

[@Jbtw01]

nah they'd probably use this as a contraceptive

[@mokaey]

my guess its gon get pulled or knocked into a sun... and poof bye bye

[@fishermanlad4270]

Imagine if an alien race sent us a “golden record”, but we were only evolved into cavemen

[@SophoricDeathcry]

It could've happened already and maybe our cavemen ancestors destroyed it xD

[@gertvandenbosch4820]

The voyager won’t find intelligent life, intelligent life will have to find it themselves. It won’t just crash to be found by a fish.

[@jeiyxx]

Damn

[@lucas-xf7rc]

@@gertvandenbosch4820 it is a preety stupid damn big longshot , but not impossible

[@Ob_Bashar]

Nebra Sky Disk :D

[@simotamihnea3109]

Just imagine aliens actually receiving this and not be able to decode it because it's too complicated, then they throw it away

[@WTTDoesGeography]

Bro do you think aliens would throw away something recieved from SPACE? I don't care how barbaric they are, if they can catch a sattelite then they CAN decide it

[@newheadstart]

😂

[@mikahherrera8691]

Aliens: weird flex but ok

[@amouramarie]

This is genuinely how I think aliens would react lol. "Okay, kid. Yes, yes, we see you. Good job."

[@jennifer1087machel]

🤣

[@tirza1752]

dead meme but ok

[@vladimirvilliani6732]

lmfao

[@ObzTicle]

I'd love to see the reaction to an Alien figuring this out. Imagine, finding a shiny disc, with symbols on floating in space. With it literally made from living creatures on a random planet.

[@20thcenturyskin]

they would worship it

[@superevolvedshinamalgamleo8168]

@@20thcenturyskin yup

[@TheMysteryMushroom]

@@superevolvedshinamalgamleo8168 They would laugh

[@godzefkiel2686]

@@TheMysteryMushroom it would be a sign that they aren’t alone.

[@TeaInTheMorning-we2kh]

They would probably mark it on their map for potential conquest for their space empire.

[@yeahwellll]

Imagine aliens with an IQ of about 20 finds it and they just use it as a frisbee Edit- to the people replying to this comment taking it completely seriously and literal: yall might be dumber than the aliens im talking about

[@Hpmanenz]

They like "Cool a space frisbee"

[@davids7476]

C is for Cookie and dats good enough for me.........***CRUNCH, Ah yum yum yum!

[@Microphunktv-jb3kj]

Iq 21 is down syndrome... pretty sure they can't even throw a frisbee, and some if can... inadequately

[@kerbalstar5309]

LOL

[@davemarco7014]

Well it will just burned up in there atmosphere

[@DanSlotea]

Interpreting the drawings and decoding the disk knowing already how it was made is a pretty easy and straight-forwatd job. Whoever or whatever finds it might have different concepts that don't match the authors' ideas.

[@DatMrDolphin]

The fact that they could even encode all of this 45 years ago is impressive

[@MIKEx2112]

you really are that stupid huh?

[@soiyanamumenya3472]

Imagine if the dinosaurs sent their own message?which was way more ahead of its time then

[@John14947]

@@soiyanamumenya3472wtf

[@YurikoKataoka]

​@@soiyanamumenya3472they did, we still find bones. This golden plate is also a message if we are no longer here, we were here

[@YurixYurii]

god bless them to any help they may have received

[@wilkinsle1987]

Imagine if the voyager did a full loop and arrived at earth 200 years later with people discovering it not understanding a single thing.

[@urfavoritemediocrefriend9665]

Little do we know, the alien also have one for us 💀👽

[@sauravthapaa]

This keeps me up all night What if those are like some sort of message but we are not able to decode because they were not thinking widely

[@TesticleScratcher]

Damn you now i cant sleep thinking about everything

[@aru-YT]

There could be aliens in another (galaxy, planet) far away, but too far for us to reach or communicate, especially with our technology.

[@rogerthealien2168]

And they collided as soon as Voyager passed pluto 💀

[@urfavoritemediocrefriend9665]

@@rogerthealien2168 it already passed pluto

[@jcmdfgdfg3df]

This is the video aliens will watch when they find the Golden record and search in KZbin for a tutorial "How do decode NASA golden record"

[@dogz7506]

Lmao

[@Blueflag04]

lmao

[@evilpapaya4634]

Lmao

[@donthompson3793]

Lmao#4

[@edgarcetino1231]

Ayy lmao

[@luckyrathore2990]

Read. ✔️ 10 years ago. - Aliens

[@jdave1157]

40,000 years ago*

[@tshapedl]

*several galaxies are typing...*

[@timsecond]

🚫 _This message has been deleted._

[@alexisrafaelquinonez6902]

You cant respond this conversation...

[@MultiDeivas]

Alex Hwoarang Muñoz has been banned for trolling

[@Dazlidorne]

7:36 I must admit, this is amazing.

[@JackInAction]

Imagine us finding something 100x harder than this disc from the aliens 😂

[@roguemizo2496]

That could be Crop circle.

[@bradenparkes]

give it to reddit it'll be solved in a week lmao

[@carolinacalazans7905]

They be like: oh my goshhh this bissh 🤨🧐🙄 then we would take like a 100 years to decode it and send another one

[@mujtaba8302]

We we couldn't even figure out what the moonlight was how're we expecting aliens to decode it? By using python or ms excel? Or coding? When they don't even see the numbers as we do it's completely a different education 😂😂😂lol

[@Antondmt1]

@@mujtaba8302 that’s why they used a universal measurement from a hydrogen atom and not 123s. Then they converted a universal constant into values we use for time and distance (8:11). Seriously, did you even watch the video?

[@anorangewithacapybaraunder2370]

Imagine if aliens made their own little satellite with its own disk full of information coincidentally heading towards earth and it collided with our one, both disintegrating into dust never to be found.

[@kait6693]

Tot tota .... like a mirror

[@josuke6869]

I thought of this EXACT thing xD

[@josuke6869]

Surely we would send more however in the future when we have technology to just have a continuously playing video powered by sun

[@pointlessviewer]

It would be, without a doubt, the most anticlimactic coincidance in the galaxy.

[@brandinthompson4405]

If reality were written by Douglas Adams.

[@matthewgumabon7498]

The Voyager 1 probe is like the ultimate “Life was here!” message sent out into the cosmos. Eon’s from now, where humanity has been long extinct or the earth has been consumed by our dying Sun, the golden disc may find itself with an advanced intelligent species that is capable of deciphering and understanding the messages, and they’ll know what went down on this pale blue dot. And even if nothing finds it, it’s still beautiful to think that a glimpse of humanity’s memory will be drifting through interstellar space far after we are gone.

[@TripleeVFX]

Matthew Gumabon this made be happy and sad at the same time 😤

[@deviance3235]

We would ovbiously be off earth by that time

[@RobertJianu]

This is the best comment I ever saw on youtube! You sir, you are a true legend. Thank you for this amazing comment!

[@ilikenoodles2472]

Alternate Viper well, we may be able to go to mars, but i dont think we’ll ever get out of our solar system.

[@deviance3235]

iLikeNoodles247 You know a eon is about a billion years right? I’m sure we would already mastered space travel

[@jana31415]

i really hope we get an alien golden record as our first sign of extraterrestrial life soon i really wanna see how other species would do this

[@invader2968]

Human: sends music to aliens, aliens: reply back with Ali a intro

[@kevray]

pure airsoft lmao

[@44Bigs]

Decoding the images using Excel is a great illustration of how the chosen encoding held up for 50 years.

[@niggatellotmnt4525]

Imagine if it takes thousands of years of some alien species to find these disks.They decode it and they find us. They land on earth but all they see is just dust and ashes, because we went through 15 world wars. Or what if in year 3034 this rocket comes back with a message saying *To hard to decode,send something simple*

[@AliceTheSpider]

If they can send a spaceship they can decode it

[@anon-dm6gx]

They send a message back "Uhhh. Tu habla ingles?"

[@roojackaroo8517]

It will be pointless,by the time any aliens reach us after decoding a message which uses foreign technology, the only evidence of humans will be the plastic we have left behind and the cities we have built, be it war,plague or simply time itself

[@janemarie6869]

Constant Constipation ...15 world wars? Betting all my money and my life that next world war is it for us. Earth go boom boom.

[@symonheiloguu]

Roo Jackaroo The cities would already be destroyed in 1000 years

[@carter469]

What if it crashes on an earth clone that did the same thing we did and are just like “yo wtf it came back”

[@user-yd2cu2sw6i]

lol

[@javonbennettjr]

Im dead

[@Tark0wo]

XD

[@Nandian90]

Well, the symbols that indicate the location (Pulsar Map @1:53) as to where it came from would be different.

[@carter469]

Nando VD weird flex but ok

[@charlesphilips2045]

I hope you guys had as much fun decoding the message, as I had watching this video. Its simply brilliant!

[@Piineapple.]

Charles Uwakwe It looks brilliant if you know the solution. What would be really brilliant is making a simple object such that even a 8 years old child could understand it. I'm not telling this is easy at all, though. But here you can feel that is wasn't that easy to solve and he was helped by the creators.

[@JorgetePanete]

IT'S*

[@claraa.m6472]

What if we find a reply gold record that has the message “QUE?”

[@davids7476]

ROFLMMFAO.....snarf , snort RAAAWWWWR best comment yet, can't believe it is not at the top!

[@eugene8910]

Hahahha, Amazing comment X3

[@GeriGerTV]

and we answer back jajajaja

[@SpanishDuck]

David S i think you need to learn how to speak like a human

[@fvn55yearsago57]

Don’t touch Me That means that we had human ancestors before us that migrated to another planet and then aliens put our planet back to the Stone Age and we came along.

[@Visceralx1]

What if the alien just replied "i have a bf lol"

[@DINKEZA]

LOL UNDERRATED

[@EduardoHerrera-fr6bd]

'taken lmao'

[@LNLBD]

Or "I like you as a friend."

[@alcatraz1044]

HAHAHAHAH😆

[@Visceralx1]

@@abhinavchaurasia9258 father earth went to buy a carton of milk

[@TheOGBraveheart]

So we sent aliens the road map to unpack our resources, wildlife, how the most intelligent species thinks and all weaknesses…. But hey, at least we said greetings in all languages!

[@ttyninja]

1:28 “We want to make things as easy as possible to understand” *does the complete opposite*

[@NPCSN]

Brandon Santiago 🤣😂 so true. My question is: what do they do if they don’t have binary code? 🤣😂 oopsies.

[@leversandpulleys9274]

we're expecting their whole civilization and whole race to study the message probably in hundreds of years

[@VascoCC95]

So... In order to receive this message, aliens have to use a device very specific to humans with a setting explained in a way that not even the average human can understand... And this was made by the same guys that are clever enough to put a man on the moon with a computer with the processing power of an old MP3 player... Something is quite not right... It would be more plausible that an alien sent it to their own spatial base and humans are trying to cover it with this nonsense explanation. Just saying...

[@leversandpulleys9274]

@@VascoCC95 .., You know everything in the universe radiates waves right, which makes it the highest probability of thing that any creature can sense and analyze. By the first time any civilization able to recognize the step-by-step to let the disc vibrates frequency, they know they are into something. So why did we send human device to the outer space? because we are human, and we're trying to execute our best bet to the black space of the universe. so.

[@VascoCC95]

@@leversandpulleys9274 why not sending a device with solar panels, triggered by motion (like IR sensors) that starts playing whenever it senses motion?? It was possible with the technology they had and would raise brutally the probability of being heard.

[@Mintymondos]

Voyager 1: * crashes into a alien sea with life* Da fish: ay other fish I found a cool piece of junk”

[@TheMR-777]

Man your statement had so much potential

[@lsudx479]

Oh wow! This is genius! Let's hope the aliens have Excel.

[@Slime2sjsuu]

😂

[@ExplicitGarvit]

@@Slime2sjsuu LOL

[@stephenaviaspace5056]

Ok you mean a 1 meter by 50 cm computer screen with some weird app able to decode it.

[@lsudx479]

@@stephenaviaspace5056 No. I literally just meant I hope they have a copy of Microsoft Excel.

[@lsudx479]

@@ITI-xi5zx Why would it be useless? You'd imagine that they'd be as fascinated by the discovery as we are about finding bacteria in dirt on other planets.

[@ED3N0229]

**record reaches aliens** **Aliens are actually blind**

[@melsoro7311]

Aliens could be like the predator seeing only heat

[@ED3N0229]

@@melsoro7311 They could be...

[@ghmasterjj]

*breaks it immediately*

[@chillout1109]

Chuki Miyuki If the aliens are blind, that's not a problem. They would never find the record in the first place anyway. But if they are an Advanced Blind Civilisation, then they would find the record and know how to decode it too.

[@ED3N0229]

@@chillout1109 Are you saying they have Space Braille? ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

[@amarigalaxy1091]

***Aliens finds the disc*** ***Aliens trace it back to Earth*** ***Aliens invade Earth***

[@valthiriansunstrider2540]

Yes, the Pulsar map is decodable unlike most everything else

[@laplace99]

I mean, at least then people couldn't claim superiority over one another when you got actual superior aliens killing all of us. So..... eh let em come.

[@superripperflame8629]

***but instead aliens find it when they are in the caveman years***

[@superripperflame8629]

***starts smashing it***

[@martafjarta9727]

Thank you NASA or whoever sent that thing away.

[@R3CKLESSRHINO]

alien finds it and wears it as a necklace 😂

[@omchannawar3787]

Imagine if voyager comes back with golden disc with some fingerprints smudges

[@snorgisborg2]

Underrated

[@elijahsmall5873]

That's if they have fingers

[@elijahsmall5873]

@@nightmare_productions4346 Yeah I suppose.

[@PanzerkampfwagenausfTschechosl]

@@nightmare_productions4346 unless there is some other way. You can never know for sure.

[@sunnybowos266]

@@nightmare_productions4346 they could have tentacles

[@iz1185]

turns out the aliens are deaf

[@blackscreennoiseforrelaxat1517]

Awe damn

[@Aayushman_Yen]

Hmmmmmnnm DAMN!!!!!!!

[@geppetto9448]

Or color blind

[@emilianomorales3002]

or blind

[@leanderlopez7652]

Not exactly impossible either. While it's almost certain that intelligent life will evolve eye like organs that gain info by absorbing light (it is a result of something essential to life), it's not certain that they will use sound to gain info like animals on Earth.

[@55giantsfan22]

Ive never seen it broken down like this, pretty crazy

[@KRBadolato]

My friend gifted me a copy of this a few years ago. We had many discussions about how stacked against the odds are of any intelligent species being able to decode anything on the disc. The main one is assuming that the aliens who find it have the ability to see and hear similarly to the organisms on Earth. That alone is a game over. They would need to have the ability to "see" wavelengths of light, and "hear" the differences in air pressure. The audio is useless in the vacuum of space. The visuals are useless in the absence of the visible light spectrum of humans.

[@mixuaquela123]

All of those are just signals. They don't have to sense the signals they just have to measure them.

[@soybeanstudies4837]

if thr civilisation is intelligent enough, they may have found ways of detecting sound and light as we know it, just like how we have instruments that sense sounds and light that we can’t directly hear or see

[@changleon7441]

Biologically we can only see a select part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and can only hear a certain range of audio pitch, but we use instruments to measure from radio waves to gamma rays, ultrasonic. We use microscopes, telescopes.

[@mortenfransrud7676]

But think about this... we already have the ability to see wavelengths we otherwise can't. By the help of technology we can interpret those signals into signals we can see. We can "hear" outer space, we can visualize infra-red to visible light, wi can detect radiosignals and convert them to images and sound and we can use microphones to detect infra sound and then turn it into audible sound. For sure the aliens even evolved different to us could do this to as it is a must for a species to evolve into a space traveling civilization You even saw this in action as the video showed us how a chaotic noise was turned into images just by using a computer.

[@brosephjames]

They can translate the signals, similarly to how sonar signals are translated to visual signals on a navy technicians screen

[@j6de]

imagine if the aliens were dumber than us

[@andrewsmackswell4092]

We're most likely smarter than the aliens considering most, if not all possible Alien life could be bacteria or a singular cell

[@j6de]

Ragingbull2017 Yes

[@leanderlopez7652]

@Heavy Weight Using proportions on Earth, no matter how big the universe is, 99.9999% of aliens would be dumber than us. Nonetheless their is probably some out there that are smarter than us.

[@lillionaire]

they wont be able to find the disk in the first place if they are dumber than us

[@Pipi108]

Llopeztube LpTzoid at least the aliens could probably use the right ‘there’.

[@Retrobution]

i always worried that this is a bad idea to tell any other civilization where our precious planet is in the vastness of space. but then this video settles my worries.. aint nobody gonna figure out how to listen to this thing lol!

[@atomicorang]

Good point. I just figured out where AOC came from.

[@k1ler82]

Retrobution if extraterrestrial can use speed of light they can decode this easily

[@treehugger7916]

@@k1ler82 Maybe it crashes on a planet with idiots and someone ends up using it as a trivet.

[@superfuze5166]

Alien picks up golden disc "OOGA BOOGA" Throws disc down and poops on it.

[@dominique7526]

Alien find disc* Alien: I wish I can go there but my mom said no :(

[@idk-dw4fi]

😂

[@richywendywensflorvil]

Why want you go to that zone for. The reads to this little bubble are... You named it😉😉

[@chrissalimi8708]

I hate how aliens just pitstop here to use our stargates and whatnot but apparently we ain't cool enough to hang like wtf dude I roll a mean joint Mr/Miss/Non-binary Alien!

[@susighi2299]

Imagine if they misinterpret that into "We declare war."

[@soulbytes]

I think they did...maybe not a war but.. we are a lab rats

[@OlliOtter]

So you mean pixels?

[@wyattguilliams2621]

Wasn't that the plot for pixels

[@jaymesnin]

Stephen Hawking said this was one of man kinds biggest mistakes.

[@CrispyOkra]

@@jaymesnin The golden record doesn't really matter, aliens would be far more likely to discover our radio signals long before happening across a tiny probe floating around the vastness of space.

[@elliotmoran999]

why didnt they put a record player on the spacecraft and show the aliens how to put the disc on it???

[@Comet-2011-W3-Lovejoy]

Record players can't survive for that long, and the aliens might read the images/instructions backwards.

[@happymark1668]

Aliens: “What is this sounds?” Alien 2: “Idk but we need more Chuck Berry”

[@RestitutorEuropa]

Imagine how interesting or even creepy it would be if we received an alien equivalent of this.

[@cjroj7214]

Black lives matter.

[@gamertardguardian1299]

Maybe an advanced one would do it like in Contact, and they could transmit this data through directly at the speed of light

[@stringercorrales6627]

Like crop circles in response to the discs showing us how to make microwave antennas to communicate with them. Oh wait, that actually happened.

[@sls12III]

Who knows? Maybe there's one out there waiting to be discovered, just like the Voyagers.

[@MattSean06]

This would be an absolute dream! Their music is what I would be most interested in

[@SgtJoeSmith]

a thousand years from now aliens will call nasa tech support to see how to decode record

[@ahamedjunaid01]

Can't they send another remastered version?

[@lewisevans4655]

Yeah that’s what I was thinking

[@hassanshakeel1456]

@@lewisevans4655 it would take millions of dollars to create another version of the voyager 1

[@tnsdemon1706]

yeh

[@ahamedjunaid01]

@@hassanshakeel1456 Still just a tiny percent of what the US spends on Military budget

[@hassanshakeel1456]

@@ahamedjunaid01 yeah, I mean there must be another reason right?

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

Now the only catch is: how do they find this thing? Think about it. This is a teeny tiny record on a tiny probe floating through the vast eternal emptiness of space. Calling it a needle in the haystack is a gross understatement. This would be like finding a single special grain of sand on all the beaches around the world.

[@eduardoalcamino4162]

In the future they will tell in school not to send your personal data to space, dangerous people can get its hands on it

[@Michael-Archonaeus]

People?

[@veg4life.]

FB lol sells it

[@seeyan9944]

That the future, It’s amazing how we keep making new technology so fast.

[@kcat80]

@@Michael-Archonaeus dangerous space people

[@Carnotaurus420]

What are hands

[@jengyu2026]

imagine aliens found out earth and attacked us just because of that disc

[@sajeucettefoistunevaspasme]

They saw us eating fish and drinking water They will come to colonize us then Haha nuke

[@wahidanayab7770]

We would already be ded till ten no worries

[@joker_storm2232]

Nasa: Allow me to flip that coin

[@evildalejr4570]

Beast wars

[@michaelns6786]

@@wahidanayab7770 Why would we be gone by then?

[@Trimere]

Imagine sending out letters to total strangers and not only giving them the address to your home, but pictures of all your stuff.

[@cheenobeasto8215]

NASA:"Here alien this Golden Disk to uncover our secrets" Aliens: "Thanks Now Its more easier to get rid of you guys"

[@Matthew-cd8iv]

Jesus this made me laugh

[@francekhalilromero1933]

They did not include the guns and weapons

[@cheenobeasto8215]

@@Matthew-cd8iv lol

[@Sillie2003]

what if they see this as an declaration of war

[@Wand_md]

I saw another video of voyager 1 and at the end, they said it might be an end for earth or a future...

[@doges_6864]

F

[@マイ9188]

since they're many light-years from us, when they try and finally reach us for any evil act earth will probably be dead at this point

[@upmanyubhati]

We lose!!

[@user-sg4ov7ng4h]

We're already dead by then lol

[@TheElleiver]

No wonder we haven't had any contact with aliens yet. They will never figure this out.

[@leanderlopez7652]

We don't know that, some aliens can really smart (or also really dumb, but that's besides the point) , and just maybe, if they fiddle with it long enough they will get on to something.

[@lillionaire]

the thing is that Voyager will never get to aliens by itself, aliens will have to find it themselves, so if they are able to find it, they might also be able to decode it

[@Delta-es1lg]

To find Voyager in space would take a very advanced civilization. (Assuming Voyager isn't taken out by space debris or something) Any civilization capable of finding Voyager would more than likely be capable of decoding its secrets eventually.

[@vee1071]

and after all this years, aliens are still waiting for us to respond, cus maybe they know that we're in danger.

[@rld8258]

@Calla Mett lmao

[@nittosstudio]

Im glad you made this video, if the aliens have any trouble deciding they can just KZbin this 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽