We decoded NASA’s messages to aliens by hand
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5 жыл бұрынIn 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
Director of Audience Development: Ruben Salvadori
Social Media Manager: Dilpreet Kainth
General Manager: Stephen Belser
Network Development: Sarah Bishop Woods
Thanks to: Alessandra Potenza, Ron Barry
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:
boingboing.net/2017/09/05/how...
• First Ever Decode of V...
Link to Manuel’s code on GitHub:
github.com/aizquier/voyagerimb
Link to the full audio data:
/ voyager-golden-record-...
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@VergeScience 5 жыл бұрын
What images or sounds would you send to aliens?
@anlog540 5 жыл бұрын
Certainly not a Justin's Bieber song.
@HahtaanDaetori 5 жыл бұрын
An image of our solar system or images of volcanoes or other things that may occur on our planet and the aliens planet
@addaccount9246 5 жыл бұрын
Certainly a queens songs
@ralpherichchan 5 жыл бұрын
Happy Birthday Cory! 😃
@georgplaz 5 жыл бұрын
a photo of my latest meal at that fancy restaurant everyone is talking about ;o)
@Sda-vh1or 5 жыл бұрын
Government: sends Golden discs to space Alien government: hides it from their public
@brianpatrickofficial 4 жыл бұрын
S 2 da 685 11.12.11 that’s exactly what our got damn government does 😂
@tapatiolays4174 4 жыл бұрын
@@brianpatrickofficial ikr
@brianpatrickofficial 4 жыл бұрын
TapatioLays yeah it’s pissing me off
@nidhi4079 4 жыл бұрын
Sounds similar
@WherDoiLive 4 жыл бұрын
truth, alien polpulation belives we are still cavemen. We are under cuarantine
@chachcadi271 3 жыл бұрын
Alien 1: why are there so many weird symbols? Alien 2: Did you think they were going to speak English like us?
@spike480p 3 жыл бұрын
Alien speak using english wtf
@Anonymous-tm7jp 3 жыл бұрын
Aliens speaking in English? That means Britain must have colonized the entire galaxy at some point. *LAUGHS IN BRITISH*
@lasajnae9626 3 жыл бұрын
@@Anonymous-tm7jp my brain just got colonized after reading this
@rachelcookie321 3 жыл бұрын
@WoodChipings that was the joke
@shravankhedekar3302 3 жыл бұрын
@@Anonymous-tm7jp what if Britishers are actually aliens send to the earth to colonize it?
@GmodAdict Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Damn, that message is kind of better
@abhishektarun09 9 ай бұрын
that's deep
@niichisann 9 ай бұрын
That actually makes more sense, because by the time it reaches another star system (IF that happens), humanity might be long gone.
@fluffypuffyboy586 8 ай бұрын
yeah like the graphity people spray "i was here" but instead "humans where here"
@TheLordOfBeans 6 ай бұрын
We wuz here -human
@Silversorcerer Жыл бұрын
I get the distinct feeling that he intended the record to be like a time capsule. We're intended to discover it again after we get very advanced at space travel and be reminded of how we once were.
@purecatharsis4 Жыл бұрын
" OH LOOK! an alien device! with a disk! oh wait its ours nevermind~"
@thomaslok5808 10 ай бұрын
Yes, cause I have always wondered with the amount of complexity in the cover, audio, and images. There’s no way aliens would understand, for example the morse code and binary, these systems are created by us for us, so aliens would definitely not understand what the lines are on the cover. Another thing is even if they do understand, the units such as minutes and hours, are both based on the Earth, something aliens don’t have so how would they understand.
@teomandemir8918 10 ай бұрын
@@thomaslok5808 Aliens being able to understand binary is just pure hope. But seconds, minutes, days or even years are taught by hydrogens movement which is the most common element in space.
@thomaslok5808 10 ай бұрын
@@teomandemir8918 That is true, but my point is that the idea of seconds, hours, days and years are all arbitrary. An alien year could be a thousand times longer than one Earth year, and one alien day could be 10 times longer than Earth day. So there is no way they would know what we are talking about.
@ravindransomasundaram1810 10 ай бұрын
This reminds me about the movie " Planet of the apes" one day the golden record might land back on the earth itself.
@milkman2143 3 жыл бұрын
Golden Record be like: "John has 2 apples, calculate the mass of the Sun"
@xcybitt721 3 жыл бұрын
Yea definitely. But maybe it's designed so that the aliens actually are intelligent enough for communication?
@malcolmweatherby3254 3 жыл бұрын
@@xcybitt721 thats what they're hoping
@Vivi-sz8pe 3 жыл бұрын
lol HAHSHAHAHAHAH
@hati3 3 жыл бұрын
LMAO
@notsosolowing1295 3 жыл бұрын
Hmmmm... Hmmmmmmm... 4?
3 жыл бұрын
Alien finding the Golden Disc : "Awesome, free gold!" *melts the disc*
@Beeper332 3 жыл бұрын
That's what I'm saying. what if there cave men and just destroy it.
@syauqilintang4970 3 жыл бұрын
well but gold isnt that rare in space so...yeah ._.
@pwe...2626 3 жыл бұрын
@@syauqilintang4970 isn't rare but we still value it, if we value it why can't they?
@Heisler146 3 жыл бұрын
@@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 3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@eclipse4376 Жыл бұрын
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
@joshuekz7243 Жыл бұрын
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 10 ай бұрын
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 6 ай бұрын
i tapped read more and was jumpscared by that “and the earth was eaten by it” part 😭😭
@newheadstart 3 ай бұрын
@@twotruckslyricspussy
@kemalistpatriot5228 3 ай бұрын
@@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 3 ай бұрын
I don't think it will survive for 5 billion years.
@geraldsittly1512 4 жыл бұрын
- Aliens find disc - Aliens didn't figure out how to decode - Aliens google for decoding methods - Aliens watch this on youtube
@panchitoborja 4 жыл бұрын
I am the alien
@jacarijones4395 4 жыл бұрын
amarjaannn your a hater kid make your own joke why you reply lol your like 6
@lm- 4 жыл бұрын
Ez jo
@finnis2344 4 жыл бұрын
waylon lewin bruh he wasn’t talking to you lmfao he was replying to amaraannn
@awesome1ru 4 жыл бұрын
Lawl
@Julio-wr7pz 4 жыл бұрын
Alien: "What do you think this is?" Other Alien: "I don't know, let me open Excel real quick."
@mujtaba8302 3 жыл бұрын
So we're counting on aliens to decofe it using python or ms excel... Lol
@syauqilintang4970 3 жыл бұрын
yea, i hope they have the similar program somehow (we didnt even know if they had a computer or not)
@frederikvilms1281 3 жыл бұрын
@@syauqilintang4970 if we randomly found one like this we'd be having our brightest minds working on deciphering it i think
@jonathanodude6660 3 жыл бұрын
@@mujtaba8302 did you watch the vid? were counting on them converting decibel values into brightness values, and laying that on a grid.
@Rob-vy6zx 3 жыл бұрын
@@mujtaba8302 I want to see it decoded analog using the original method.
@X39280 Жыл бұрын
id be terrified if one day this same record gets sent back to us
@jondoesit1240 Жыл бұрын
Dude it would be crazy
@comet.x 6 ай бұрын
with a note that says 'shut up they'll find you'
@bryangutierrez4801 2 ай бұрын
Spoiler, that's the final reveal of the show the signal that just released on Netflix
@aqmail6036 2 ай бұрын
Would be hilarious if the reply is just "👍"
@richardlee5412 Ай бұрын
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"
@MarsFKA Жыл бұрын
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 11 ай бұрын
Finally someone else gets it...
@mrwhatever9025 Ай бұрын
True that we have no idea how many times Earth has reset itself.
@rickkwitkoski1976 Ай бұрын
@@mrwhatever9025 Yes we do. Five major times and several minor times. A 6th major time is happening right now.
@BartvanderHorst Ай бұрын
Or was hit by a rock within a hundred years.
@koa_al 3 жыл бұрын
The aliens after finding this: *Hey doesn't this look like the Golden Disc we sent a thousand of years ago?*
@timsohn7057 3 жыл бұрын
Underrated comment lol
@infinitespecter6998 3 жыл бұрын
Oof we are alone
@atibaaier5426 3 жыл бұрын
scp 1342 vibes
@Pikasatupu75 3 жыл бұрын
Imagine Golden Disc coming back to Earth after thousands of years later.
@allftw2677 3 жыл бұрын
@@Pikasatupu75 we will probably be on earth and other planets aswell , in other solar systems hopefully and beyond
@ContinuEntertainment 5 жыл бұрын
NASA: Sends gold disk to aliens Aliens: These idiots don't have email?
@captainmarvelous1221 4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@impulserr 4 жыл бұрын
u mean galaxnet? Imagine u send files and upload is done before ur finger finish mouse click
@someinternetbox168 4 жыл бұрын
riten we wouldn’t be using a mouse
@emanifung6806 4 жыл бұрын
The Catmother LMAO
@22subsnovideos98 4 жыл бұрын
Bruh 😂😂😂
@freddyandfoxy7526 Жыл бұрын
This man should put this on a satellite. As a tutorial for aliens who can't figure how to decode the Golden record
@charles1057 9 ай бұрын
Fr
@AryanKumar-jo1pz 9 ай бұрын
ya just write the youtube link so he can watch the tutorial
@charles1057 8 ай бұрын
@@AryanKumar-jo1pz and the link is broken 💀💀💀
@drownd_ 2 ай бұрын
@@studioustokomfg you're soo smart!
@luigidisanpietro3720 Жыл бұрын
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!
@bgsbrito 5 жыл бұрын
1. Aliens find disc 2. Aliens find earth 3. Sell it to pawn stars 4. Fly away
@zay3304 5 жыл бұрын
bruno brito 😂😂
@zefallafez 5 жыл бұрын
Rick brings in expert to authenticate it. Then offers $200 and says there isn't a big market for old records.
@bgsbrito 5 жыл бұрын
@@zefallafez 👌🏻🤣🤣🤣
@drumphil2006 5 жыл бұрын
The best I can do is $20 and 78 likes
@bgsbrito 5 жыл бұрын
@@drumphil2006 sold
@mont9150 3 жыл бұрын
this is the hardest easter egg so far in the universe
@p-5199 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah
@deathvai364 2 жыл бұрын
YET, remember that the biggest Easter egg is yet to come
@pryt0n180 2 жыл бұрын
@TXSTDMMY god is real depends on what u think if u think god does not exist, god does not exist, if u think god exists, god exists. there are infinite realities so there will be realities that god exists and that god doesnt exist but we dont know if our reality is that if god exists or not but i think god exists because of course who made us who made the universe
@johnthefool8462 2 жыл бұрын
@@pryt0n180 We can only believe on one thing we are not special noone made us we made our selfs so if there is live beyond that there is no god and if theres no life beyond then there is a god but after keep thinking that basic life can happen by water then i believe we dont have a god and there are more life beyond
@PanzerkampfwagenausfTschechosl 2 жыл бұрын
@@johnthefool8462 once again. That is what you believe. But you can never be sure. None of us can. It just depends on if you believe or not.
@MrPartyWaffle Жыл бұрын
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.
@ThePersonWhoKnocks Жыл бұрын
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 6 ай бұрын
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 4 ай бұрын
@@SpottedHares If they have hearing.
@coconut7630 3 ай бұрын
if there is a record player
@gregor_man 2 ай бұрын
@@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 9 күн бұрын
@@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
@colony8286 3 жыл бұрын
Nasa creates a map were earth is, aliens visits, military shoots its down Aliens: man it was a trap
@chris_ez 2 жыл бұрын
Underrated comment
@raffyrodriguez9777 2 жыл бұрын
Alien be like: f*k this cave mans
@colony8286 2 жыл бұрын
@@raffyrodriguez9777 lmao pretty sure they already have flying cars
@WittyOriginalUsername 2 жыл бұрын
So you also saw Starman
@vanilla5930 2 жыл бұрын
@@colony8286 more than that lmao
@daveroll6463 4 жыл бұрын
In reality: Aliens: *find the golden disc* Also Aliens: *blind and deaf with a very different body structure*
@stephanieblopes 4 жыл бұрын
David Reoul Hahaha, this would happen.
@sukhad374 4 жыл бұрын
You just.K.O.
@hitroy1054 4 жыл бұрын
**disc squashes microbe**
@trwygon 4 жыл бұрын
what if they have religions and they think its a gift from god or something like that and dont let anyone analyse it because that would be "doubting God" :00
@lilmeatevan 4 жыл бұрын
So we’re talking hellen Keller here ?
@F-35BLightningII 7 ай бұрын
One day, we are going to get something similar here on earth. And when decoded, it states. *_Be quiet, or else they'll find you to_*
@official-obama 4 ай бұрын
once we find it in the crater and read the message, it adjusts its propellers and flies back
@stefanmaster2099 5 ай бұрын
fun fact: when our star burns out, the golden record may still exist and will be the last relic of humanity
@Leafyu29 4 жыл бұрын
Plot twist: this ends up on a planet where there are other humans and it becomes that planet's biggest mystery.
@TemptedL9Gaming-Subscribe 4 жыл бұрын
There's a picture of a human from earth that looks just like a dude from that planet
@astronaut6418 4 жыл бұрын
GUYS STOP. This is giving me a headache
@ultra_axe7812 4 жыл бұрын
Postiviitea well, they will have our location
@brandonjames4675 4 жыл бұрын
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 4 жыл бұрын
Brandon James what? I’ve never heard of that?? Edit: don’t believe in it but still curious
@fishermanlad4270 4 жыл бұрын
Imagine if an alien race sent us a “golden record”, but we were only evolved into cavemen
@SophoricDeathcry 4 жыл бұрын
It could've happened already and maybe our cavemen ancestors destroyed it xD
@gertvandenbosch4820 4 жыл бұрын
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 4 жыл бұрын
Damn
@lucas-xf7rc 4 жыл бұрын
@@gertvandenbosch4820 it is a preety stupid damn big longshot , but not impossible
@Ob_Bashar 4 жыл бұрын
Nebra Sky Disk :D
@thetinysideoftiny7625 6 ай бұрын
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.
@rastari9679 5 жыл бұрын
NASA lowkey tryna promote they mixtape and give them a soundcloud link
@brivvy 5 жыл бұрын
😂
@3blindmices 5 жыл бұрын
I’m weakkk
@Dualusional 5 жыл бұрын
I died as soon as I read it.
@sooph1e 5 жыл бұрын
LMFAO!!😂😂 Now I kinda want it to be true🤣
@basstrap6818 5 жыл бұрын
"Gave"
@TheFockingTeam 4 жыл бұрын
"Easy to understand" with 3 guys from earth explaining the instructions.
@Whimsy3692 4 жыл бұрын
They need to have the instructions in Swedish.
@juanvillalobos9044 4 жыл бұрын
Khe vergas?🤯
@bensilver28 4 жыл бұрын
With 1 guy that helped design it.
@drsatyamupadhyay 4 жыл бұрын
"Insanity"
@KarlPlaysShooters 4 жыл бұрын
Maje vos que haces aqui?
@christianreynolds1324 10 ай бұрын
This makes me rethink all the crazy symbolism in ancient Egypt and other civilizations around the world.
@bboi1489 Жыл бұрын
2 billion years later on a distant planet: "Broken Ancient Space disk may have been a message from another planet."
@LoganCovers91 5 жыл бұрын
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 5 жыл бұрын
99.999999999999999
@ADEehrh 5 жыл бұрын
Maybe we wanted to do our best to look as intelligent as possible.
@dsp4392 5 жыл бұрын
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 5 жыл бұрын
@@dsp4392 Don't forget the language of love
@festethephule7553 5 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@michaelb4538 4 жыл бұрын
Alien's : But we stopped making record players a trillion years ago.
@v4l3nt1nn 4 жыл бұрын
the Universe in 14.5 bilion yo. way less than 1 trillion
@MDzaki-uk2ll 4 жыл бұрын
Oh well, big oof
@michaelb4538 4 жыл бұрын
@@v4l3nt1nn why be a trillion years old? When we can be a billion years old. No, but you are right yes. I didn't really think aliens were having discussions about record players either but as people say it's only a really bad joke.
@michaelb4538 4 жыл бұрын
@@MDzaki-uk2ll ha
@tinytreehugger1 4 жыл бұрын
@@michaelb4538 mike hunt. good one.
@simotamihnea3109 10 ай бұрын
Just imagine aliens actually receiving this and not be able to decode it because it's too complicated, then they throw it away
@WTTDoesGeography 6 ай бұрын
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 3 ай бұрын
😂
@DanSlotea Жыл бұрын
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.
@Tarmac_Tales 5 жыл бұрын
Reply from Aliens - K
@larce4158 5 жыл бұрын
Nah they'd just leave us on read.
@AardvarkXYZZY 5 жыл бұрын
Who dis?
@KRAFTWERK2K6 5 жыл бұрын
"Send more Chuck Berry!"
@fiercelypolygons3696 5 жыл бұрын
*5 minutes later* *DESTROY PLANET EARTH, WE MUST CLEANSE IT OF ITS FILTH*
@fransfrans5228 5 жыл бұрын
Or it could be worse like "rawr xD"
@pdawg6949 4 жыл бұрын
Aliens: *find the disc* instead of decoding the image, starts vibin to the noises
@seelz1136 3 жыл бұрын
task failed successfully
@carolinacalazans7905 3 жыл бұрын
They be like 😃💃 just dance!! Us: 👁👄👁
@charles7075 3 жыл бұрын
Bruh😁😂😂😂😂😂
@azmysalim9144 3 жыл бұрын
Wkwkwk🤣🤣🤣
@thatdude034 3 жыл бұрын
That's kinda the point though. The disc also contains music.
@wilkinsle1987 9 ай бұрын
Imagine if the voyager did a full loop and arrived at earth 200 years later with people discovering it not understanding a single thing.
@Dazlidorne Жыл бұрын
7:36 I must admit, this is amazing.
@lolbit5119 4 жыл бұрын
imagine if the thing just falls in a black hole
@girlgarde 4 жыл бұрын
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 4 жыл бұрын
Oof
@Ob_Bashar 4 жыл бұрын
@@girlgarde V'ger
@tristansgaming7048 4 жыл бұрын
Then it well be spit back out another one
@katrina6984 4 жыл бұрын
@@girlgarde that honestly sound like a really good plot.
@glitz4942 2 жыл бұрын
when aliens play the other side they will be like ' oh man this side is broken '
@OphelyaGMS 2 жыл бұрын
This comment is super under appreciated.
@superNova5837 2 жыл бұрын
Lol
@glitz4942 2 жыл бұрын
@@OphelyaGMS 😅
@stephenaviaspace5056 2 жыл бұрын
Humans be like meanwhile on earth: I hope they see the pictures. Aliens meanwhile: is this a small model of thunder?
@jayantahuja1986 2 жыл бұрын
Wah bete, tum to bde heavy driver nikle 🤣🤣🤣
@jana31415 Жыл бұрын
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
@PacoOtis 2 ай бұрын
This information has been public knowledge since day one!
@yeahwellll 4 жыл бұрын
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 4 жыл бұрын
They like "Cool a space frisbee"
@davids7476 4 жыл бұрын
C is for Cookie and dats good enough for me.........***CRUNCH, Ah yum yum yum!
@Microphunktv-jb3kj 4 жыл бұрын
Iq 21 is down syndrome... pretty sure they can't even throw a frisbee, and some if can... inadequately
@kerbalstar5309 4 жыл бұрын
LOL
@davemarco7014 4 жыл бұрын
Well it will just burned up in there atmosphere
@Zhiar 5 жыл бұрын
>alien finds record >goes on KZfaq >watches this video >likes this comment
@davidzatica408 4 жыл бұрын
>goes to reddit >nice
@sorrychangedmyusername3594 4 жыл бұрын
>sees Area 51 meme >ayy lmao nice
@Mark-yb1sp 4 жыл бұрын
Zhiar Ali I was feeling bad tonight until I read your comments. Now I feel pretty good. Thanks Zhiar.
@thatboyxavion 4 жыл бұрын
Lmaooooo😂😂
@emmett3067 4 жыл бұрын
>Discoverts Redtube >Never seen again
@PiroSly Жыл бұрын
love this episode, it means so much yet people forget
@colboy123 6 ай бұрын
Thank you! This was really helpful, we appreciate your help a lot
@7elep 2 жыл бұрын
He had to fly all the way into space to get that disc, This man has some serious dedication.
@mikeoxmaul45 2 жыл бұрын
Wake me up when someone needs wooooshing
@cosmiccake791 2 жыл бұрын
Ok
@khabardar1919 2 жыл бұрын
😂
@nikolaivikturski4557 2 жыл бұрын
@@mikeoxmaul45 found the redditor
@princessloveheartglitter 2 жыл бұрын
Was a joke
@thatoneindiankid1097 2 жыл бұрын
The catch is that this disk will still be floating around in space when we all are dead. That gives me chills
@stepdadofacrab5008 2 жыл бұрын
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 2 жыл бұрын
@@stepdadofacrab5008 it’s almost impossible to be destroyed by asteroids, and I’m pretty sure there are heat shields on it
@vinzer72frie 2 жыл бұрын
@@stepdadofacrab5008 it will never cross its path anything they will have to catch it moving
@hazardeur 2 жыл бұрын
@@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 2 жыл бұрын
IKRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
@44Bigs 2 ай бұрын
Decoding the images using Excel is a great illustration of how the chosen encoding held up for 50 years.
@TheOGBraveheart 2 ай бұрын
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!
@sleepingseb4312 5 жыл бұрын
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 5 жыл бұрын
Why do you think they used solid gold for the disc?
@davidlamb1107 5 жыл бұрын
@@XxZigiixX The same reason -- radiation
@boardman1061 5 жыл бұрын
*receives “book”..... the aliens are blind*
@reeeeko3600 5 жыл бұрын
@@boardman1061 lmao, I know where you got that from (-、-)
@omdavbu 5 жыл бұрын
The golden records has a projected shelf life of 2 billion years... I don't think stacked traditional media will last that long.
@bashergamer_ 5 жыл бұрын
Imagine one of these words being offensive to aliens lol
@zinho9169 5 жыл бұрын
@@jakeisfortnite7751 You ever heard of a joke buddy?
@Glandov 5 жыл бұрын
@Jonathan Rodriguez yo just leave him alone plz.
@Glandov 5 жыл бұрын
@@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 5 жыл бұрын
ｈｅ ｍｕｓｔ ｂｅ ａ ｐａｒｔｙ ｐｏｏｐｅｒ ｏｏｆ
@Einargizz 5 жыл бұрын
"I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle."
@NoobMaster-we6ll Жыл бұрын
Aliens - "This goddamn Egyptians are trying to contact us again with this symbols"
@slavicprincess 6 ай бұрын
They really need to do this entire mission again
@help9918 5 жыл бұрын
the golden record is probably earth's most fire mixtape.
@williamchen1040 4 жыл бұрын
take this dub
@minotaur953 4 жыл бұрын
It’s a copy of sgt peppers
@danielgomez2741 4 жыл бұрын
It got gobbled up by a black hole.
@Will300tv 4 жыл бұрын
It went golden on billboards
@thewalrus829 4 жыл бұрын
@@minotaur953 Goo goo ga joob
@lightflame_669 5 жыл бұрын
lets hope they donate $3 to wikipedia once they find it
@bena7153 5 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@markdavidson2607 5 жыл бұрын
Are u nuts wikid loves u.???
@FelipeVanDerDonckt 5 жыл бұрын
i did
@abhishekagarwal787 5 жыл бұрын
that's one of the best comments ever
@saadawan5502 5 жыл бұрын
I almost killed myself laughing 😂😂😂😂
@Confron7a7ion7 6 ай бұрын
I think the important thing about the records isn't if they can be decoded. Let's be real, our species will be long gone when, or if, they are found. The important thing is that it demonstrates that at one point life on another world not only existed, but was smart enough to send any kind of message at all into space. Imagine how we would react to finding an object that was both clearly unnatural and clearly not human made. Even if we had no idea what it was. It would forever change how our species sees itself.
@nittosstudio Жыл бұрын
Im glad you made this video, if the aliens have any trouble deciding they can just KZfaq this 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
@strawman9246 5 жыл бұрын
Two adolescent aliens find it and start playing frisbee.
@rapidrabbit7175 5 жыл бұрын
Or if not frisbee, they melt it down and use it to replace fillings in their teeth . . . assuming they have teeth of course.
@dallast8379 5 жыл бұрын
They'd pawn it for space drugs
@strawman9246 5 жыл бұрын
@@dallast8379 Alien rapper wears it as a necklace.
@yourfriendlyneighborhoodfa8051 5 жыл бұрын
@@dallast8379 then during an alien drug bust the record gets found and sent to the alien government then decoded and BAM we got some extraterrestrial liTTLE shiTs here
@djblaze2395 5 жыл бұрын
Straw Man I’m dead 😂😂
@theantichrist6307 5 жыл бұрын
Alien 1: I can't decode this darn thing. Alien 2: Forget it. Let's go blaze it up.
@boomer19 5 жыл бұрын
**whips disc back into space**
@nev861 5 жыл бұрын
@@boomer19 yeets disc back into space
@xyrenaxypot9100 5 жыл бұрын
@@nev861 alien dog caught it
@55giantsfan22 9 ай бұрын
Ive never seen it broken down like this, pretty crazy
@maidbloke 29 күн бұрын
The best explanation of the contents of the golden records I have seen
@SaoirseVisceral 4 жыл бұрын
What if the alien just replied "i have a bf lol"
@DINKEZA 3 жыл бұрын
LOL UNDERRATED
@EduardoHerrera-fr6bd 3 жыл бұрын
'taken lmao'
@LNLBD 3 жыл бұрын
Or "I like you as a friend."
@alcatraz1044 3 жыл бұрын
HAHAHAHAH😆
@SaoirseVisceral 3 жыл бұрын
@@abhinavchaurasia9258 father earth went to buy a carton of milk
@eerice704 3 жыл бұрын
Imagine how terrible it would be if the Voyagers crashed into a planet with aliens smart enough to decode the records, but the records got destroyed
@cndvdxyhjblbilg 3 жыл бұрын
Someone reply to this guys comment please
@MaestroToken 3 жыл бұрын
@@cndvdxyhjblbilg ok.
@Issar137 3 жыл бұрын
That's just depressing ,thank you.
@AngelMartinez-kj4dh 3 жыл бұрын
I read about something similar to that... basically ( I forgot where I read it, sorry ) The whole point for the the Voyagers is to be captured while on space, just like if we had any Alien technology we would try our best to capture it and make sure it doesn’t get destroyed. Well that’s what at-least we are hoping for
@Rjc2k2 3 жыл бұрын
Even the crash site of the voyagers would be enough to tell an advanced civilization that there's life on other planets, what are the chances our satellites look exactly like theirs? If the civilization is advanced enough to send resources out to space, theres a chance that they would send a similar disk, or capsule of their information back into space
@R3CKLESSRHINO 8 ай бұрын
alien finds it and wears it as a necklace 😂
@randompopsiclecat7012 9 ай бұрын
imagine finding this in an escape room
@416cz2 3 жыл бұрын
Imagine a Dj alien finds it and uses it for a sample pack 🎧
@Giovanna-tw5zz 2 жыл бұрын
DJ ALIEN 😭😭😭😭
@fia5594 2 жыл бұрын
defo gonna be a banger
@bathin813 2 жыл бұрын
You guys are hilarious
@dave2.077 2 жыл бұрын
are you implying aliens are familiar with hiphop culture
@papiangelus 2 жыл бұрын
Universe type beat
@Slowstopper 5 жыл бұрын
Nasa: leave a hint to where our planet is Aliens: Ha we got em boiss
@sin4477 3 жыл бұрын
if they ever invade nasa gets taken out first
@kelvinxyz 2 ай бұрын
I dont aliens are gonna ever decode this complicated frisbee
@therealspeedwagon1451 6 ай бұрын
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.
@yxxnie 5 жыл бұрын
"We made it as easy as possible to understand" Oh yeah, even I, a human, can't understand those...
@insanezombieman753 5 жыл бұрын
thats cause you dumb af boi
@boinman6799 5 жыл бұрын
Insane Zombieman oof
@yxxnie 5 жыл бұрын
@@insanezombieman753 Dumb eh? You won't understand the drawings on the record if they didn't explained it. Now what if you're the alien? Will you understand it? No right? There's no one that will explain it to you. Think twice before you say something, you're the dumb one, not me.
@insanezombieman753 5 жыл бұрын
@@yxxnie lol calm down dude im just joking
@yxxnie 5 жыл бұрын
@@insanezombieman753 oops sorry dude I have a bad mood today. Sub to PewDiePie btw
@berks10 5 жыл бұрын
1. Aliens find disc 2. Invade Earth 3. Nasa: *Insert pikachu meme*
@decomposing_while_alive2002 5 жыл бұрын
Shocked Pikachu face
@iaw1stperson 4 жыл бұрын
GloriousTapeworm lol wtf, no it’s not
@KalemStLouis 4 жыл бұрын
Duck Sauce perhaps but perhaps life evolved differently than here, what is also most likely. Maybe predators do not exist on other planets.
@mikeoxsmal8022 4 жыл бұрын
@GloriousTapeworm No most allen woundn't do that. The more advance a culture is the more peaceful
@givemeyoureggs456 4 жыл бұрын
@@mikeoxsmal8022 what if they just see us like animal tho?
@happymark1668 26 күн бұрын
Aliens: “What is this sounds?” Alien 2: “Idk but we need more Chuck Berry”
@Mintymondos 9 ай бұрын
Voyager 1: * crashes into a alien sea with life* Da fish: ay other fish I found a cool piece of junk”
@TheMR-777 Ай бұрын
Man your statement had so much potential
@164hozey 5 жыл бұрын
So y’all telling me that someone already snitched that we out here
@AurielleAurora 5 жыл бұрын
hahah
@zoharborage6609 5 жыл бұрын
Yeah.......unfortunately we have to suffer because the smart idiots... think it's smart to give out our area code.
@mahlononthemoon2728 5 жыл бұрын
lol
@ceagst 5 жыл бұрын
@@zoharborage6609 As if we'd still be here if the disk is ever found.
@trevic1346 5 жыл бұрын
if we get invaded.. im blaming nasa
@sgt_tyguy5930 4 жыл бұрын
The public: I hope we find aliens NASA: I hope aliens find us
@hemipemi 4 жыл бұрын
Aliens: I hope they don't notice us
@notyourfriend-li7rq 4 жыл бұрын
It's obvious that they have to find us and not the other way round.
@CyrilViXP 4 жыл бұрын
Aliens could be not very friendly, you know. Evolution is not very humanistic thing
@notyourfriend-li7rq 4 жыл бұрын
@@CyrilViXP I agree. The exact reason why Hawking didn't want the message to be sent out !
@yc_knight6370 4 жыл бұрын
It will be better if they find us
@superfuze5166 Жыл бұрын
Alien picks up golden disc "OOGA BOOGA" Throws disc down and poops on it.
@Trimere Жыл бұрын
Imagine sending out letters to total strangers and not only giving them the address to your home, but pictures of all your stuff.
@ryokautsarchannel8229 4 жыл бұрын
Alien when they found golden record: look! Human still uses these lmao
@digitalsolution8483 4 жыл бұрын
Haaha
@MakelBelieve 4 жыл бұрын
🥺be nice 👽
@StevenAkinyemi 3 жыл бұрын
If they are smart enough to know it is a record, then they are smart enough to know it is outdated.
@doges_6864 3 жыл бұрын
What if the aliens are simple that just act like animals eat, kill, sleep and dont ride Spaceships *it is possible*
@axel7541 3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@lsudx479 3 жыл бұрын
Oh wow! This is genius! Let's hope the aliens have Excel.
@Slime2sjsuu 2 жыл бұрын
😂
@ExplicitGarvit 2 жыл бұрын
@@Slime2sjsuu LOL
@stephenaviaspace5056 2 жыл бұрын
Ok you mean a 1 meter by 50 cm computer screen with some weird app able to decode it.
@lsudx479 2 жыл бұрын
@@stephenaviaspace5056 No. I literally just meant I hope they have a copy of Microsoft Excel.
@lsudx479 2 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@SgtJoeSmith Жыл бұрын
a thousand years from now aliens will call nasa tech support to see how to decode record
@utsavpoudel645 3 ай бұрын
Thanks for helping to decode , Our planet just figured out about yours
@likeabossgaming7427 5 жыл бұрын
Aliens replied I have a boyfriend
@3blindmices 5 жыл бұрын
JHON CARLO OBOGNE lololol
@yasisoufi 5 жыл бұрын
JHON CARLO OBOGNE 😂🤣 I might have fallen in love again.... looking up at the stars .. waiting for him to come to me ...😂😂😂
@californiabrotherhood8114 5 жыл бұрын
JHON CARLO OBOGNE or may be they incade us thinking we are making weapons of mass disintegration.
@plasticage2085 5 жыл бұрын
Aliens: SENT MORE CHUCK BERRY
@burningmatch09 5 жыл бұрын
Nah, they'd probably leave us on read.
@mikahherrera8691 5 жыл бұрын
Aliens: weird flex but ok
@amouramarie 5 жыл бұрын
This is genuinely how I think aliens would react lol. "Okay, kid. Yes, yes, we see you. Good job."
@jennifer1087machel 4 жыл бұрын
🤣
@tirza1752 4 жыл бұрын
dead meme but ok
@vladimirvilliani6732 4 жыл бұрын
lmfao
@newbie4789 Жыл бұрын
Imagine the alternative reality where we are the ones getting the golden record. It will be Epic
@cheetahsflame1279 8 ай бұрын
Thank you for this i was really struggling with decoding this i just found it while traveling around
@feceh5832 2 жыл бұрын
Imagine gold is extremely rare in their civilization and by sending the disc, we single-handedly crash an alien economy.
@brandy6040 2 жыл бұрын
the most human thing we would ever have done
@tyler89557 2 жыл бұрын
We already crash our own economies. What's the economy of an alien civilization or two?
@berrylicious674 2 жыл бұрын
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 2 жыл бұрын
BOOM, GOLD BOMB
@Roozyj Жыл бұрын
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.
@tearssssss9292 4 жыл бұрын
Imagine if we received one back sayin “u ok hun? x”
@sophieminter0 4 жыл бұрын
Or if it said "Renegade renegade."
@DorfVG 4 жыл бұрын
@@sophieminter0 or just "k"
@crystalsampson7988 4 жыл бұрын
Or u up still?
@kayy2510 4 жыл бұрын
Or we got left on read
@EVGore 4 жыл бұрын
@@kayy2510 or 'haha fairs x'
@lilyb023 Жыл бұрын
aliens aren’t gonna know that our lines represent numbers that represent words that represent audio seconds that you have to extract or something.
@leeshackelford7517 Жыл бұрын
Just found this today. A very cool video
@jcmdfgdfg3df 5 жыл бұрын
This is the video aliens will watch when they find the Golden record and search in KZfaq for a tutorial "How do decode NASA golden record"
@dogz7506 5 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@BlueflagAlpha 5 жыл бұрын
lmao
@evilpapaya4634 5 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@donthompson3793 5 жыл бұрын
Lmao#4
@edgarcetino1231 5 жыл бұрын
Ayy lmao
@GhullieUser 5 жыл бұрын
The aliens who find this will probably use it as a dinnerplate.
@jimboland4161 5 жыл бұрын
Ghullie: Ha Ha!! So true!!
@RaymondHng 5 жыл бұрын
Or an ashtray.
@gemininiceguymercury9267 5 жыл бұрын
Or a frisbee
@BrightenCloudLeastPalladium 5 жыл бұрын
nah they'd probably use this as a contraceptive
@mokaey 5 жыл бұрын
my guess its gon get pulled or knocked into a sun... and poof bye bye
@SamuraiSCTL Жыл бұрын
imagine the aliens like: “Bro..wtf is this? I can’t read it…”
@ahhillaire868 3 ай бұрын
the irony of watching this whilst listening to the audiobook for The Dark Forest...
@JackInAction 4 жыл бұрын
Imagine us finding something 100x harder than this disc from the aliens 😂
@roguemizo2496 4 жыл бұрын
That could be Crop circle.
@bradenparkes 4 жыл бұрын
give it to reddit it'll be solved in a week lmao
@carolinacalazans7905 3 жыл бұрын
They be like: oh my goshhh this bissh 🤨🧐🙄 then we would take like a 100 years to decode it and send another one
@mujtaba8302 3 жыл бұрын
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 3 жыл бұрын
@@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?
@glavxy7743 2 жыл бұрын
Imagine them playing the image side by mistake -"Damn dude this is a bop."
@luisgabrieldelmo772 2 жыл бұрын
It's still ok the other side contains something
@elijahvincent985 Жыл бұрын
In easy terms, these signals are just modified NTSC signals slowed down to 1 line every 1/60th of a second. It even worked for me on the online WAV2PNG convertor by changing the speed of the recording at a specific number (44100 hz to 16000 hz).
@Fiddlestickswastaken Жыл бұрын
Thanks bro, just came across the disk and couldn’t decode it. Thanks for the help!
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