# Voyager artifacts

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voyager-artifacts/2630>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 18, 1999, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voyager-artifacts/2630 "1999-08-18T18:47:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 1999, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voyager-artifacts/2630/1 "1999-08-18T18:47:00Z")

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I would like to know which artifacts and recordings were carried with the Voyager space probes to make contact with alien civilizations. I know that at least one of them was a gold phonograph disc with several recordings on it: of what were they?

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**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 1999, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voyager-artifacts/2630/2 "1999-08-18T19:00:00Z")

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Check out [http://vraptor.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/record.html](http://vraptor.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/record.html)

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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 1999, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voyager-artifacts/2630/3 "1999-08-18T19:23:00Z")

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Thanx! Boy, that was swift.

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**Author:** ![mr\_john](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@mr\_john](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr_john)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 1999, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voyager-artifacts/2630/4 "1999-08-18T19:32:00Z")

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Recent news from nasa is that someone (some THING) has found Voyager and sent us a message.They just decoded it. the message says,“Send more Chuck Berry”

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“…”-Marx

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 1999, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voyager-artifacts/2630/5 "1999-08-18T19:57:00Z")

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Wow. Cool.

1. Is anyone else bummed that our ambassadors to the aliens are Jimmy Carter and Kurt Waldheim?
2. Are our SETI people going to have a harder or easier time of it if ET is sending us the same message in 55 separate languages?

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Livin’ on Tums, Vitamin E and Rogaine