Gold audio disk sent into space 1977 on Voyager spacecraft

Greetings from the Secretary General of the United Nations: 43 seconds

Greetings in 55 languages: 4 minutes 25 seconds

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Click image to hear an excerpt:

1) Sumerian

2) Greek

3) Portuguese

4) Cantonese

5) Akkadian

6) Russian

7) Thai

8) Arabic

9) Romanian

10) French

11) Burmese

12) Hebrew

13) Spanish

14) Indonesian

15) Kechua (Quechua)

16) Panjabi

17) Hittite

18) Bengali

19) Latin

20) Aramaic

21) Dutch

22) German

23) Urdu

24) Vietnamese

25) Turkish

26) Japanese

27) Hindi

28) Welsh

29) Italian

30) Sinhalese

31) Nguni (Zulu)

32) Sotho (Sesotho)

33) Wu

34) Aemenian

35) Korean

36) Polish

37) Nepali

38) Mandarin Chinese

39) Ila (Lambia)

40) Swedish

41) Nyanja

42) Gujarati

43) Ukranian

44) Persian

45) Serbian

46) Oriya

47) Luganda (Ganda)

48) Marathi

49) Amoy

50) Hungarian (Magyar)

51) Telugu

52) Czech

53) Kannada (Kanarese)

54) Rajasthani

55) English

Johannes Kepler's "Harmonices Mundi"*

This recording is ©1977 The People of Earth

Further information is in Carl Sagan's book "Murmurs of Earth".

*short excerpt from Laurie Spiegel's 1977 realization of Kepler's 1619 Treatise

For more sounds, images and information on the Voyager missions see:
The Voyager Project Home Page at NASA
They have a page on the Golden Record and its contents.

This page made by Laurie 27iii2000 as part of the Terra page of Retiary.org