Murmurs of Earth
The Murmurs of Earth are two phonograph records that were included aboard both Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977.
The records contain sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form, or for future humans, who may find them.
Inspired by the "Golden Record - Murmurs of Earth" project, we love to illustrate how we think about the world we're living by this series of illustrations.
The records contain sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form, or for future humans, who may find them.
Inspired by the "Golden Record - Murmurs of Earth" project, we love to illustrate how we think about the world we're living by this series of illustrations.
In Carl Sagan, an American astronomer's 1994 book, Pale Blue Dot, he comments on what he sees as the greater significance of the photograph, writing:
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us.
On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.
The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
If you could send a photo to the universe to describe yourself or your life on Earth, what would you choose to send?
We asked this question to Jon Lomberg, who collaborated with Carl Sagan to launch the "Murmurs of Earth" project.
His answer was:
"The photo I would send to describe my own life is the Galaxy Garden I made in Hawaii.
The Galaxy Garden is a 100-foot diameter outdoor scale model of the Milky Way,
mapped in living plants and flowers and based on current astrophysical data.
The garden was designed to encourage scientific education about our place in the Universe."
-You know what I think of when I'm scared?
-Voyager. The space probe.
-Voyager. The space probe.
By the time I was born, Voyager 1's mission was supposed to be over.
It had seen Jupitar and Saturn and all their moons, but it kept going.
In this surreal world, you can see how we imagine of the planet which is far away from us.
The series of illustrations were used to produce silk scarves.
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