# Voyager Golden Record (bones)

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 7, 2025, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voyager-golden-record-bones/1014004 "2025-02-07T09:02:23Z")\
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I believe there was once the plan to include a vial of some isotope with a known half-life.

Logic being, if found, the amount which decayed would let “them” deduct how long the spacecraft had been drifting amongst the stars.

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> [@Bear\_Nenno](#):
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> I doubt the Planetary Protection Officer would have allowed such a thing. In the unlikely event Voyager crashes somewhere, biological material could be a source of contamination.

I see that as a good thing. Panspermia and all.

Better yet, send out tardigrade farms!

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