# Voyager record image decoder **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 29, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voyager-record-image-decoder/805514 "2017-12-29T15:00:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voyager-record-image-decoder/805514/1 "2017-12-29T15:00:25Z")
In the late 70s NASA launched a pair of robot probes to study our Solar System. it was realized that the probes would eventually keep going deep into interstellar space…and some extraterrestrial intelligence may encounter these craft…perhaps millions of years hence. Scientists, therefore, commissioned a Record to teach “them” about us…that one upon a time, we were here. If “they” successfully recieve Voyagers 1 and 2 intact, and figure out how to decode the signal from the Record, they will perceive _this._ [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ibByF9XPAPg/maxresdefault.jpg "First Ever Decode of Voyager Audio Images, in Real Time.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibByF9XPAPg) ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2017, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voyager-record-image-decoder/805514/2 "2017-12-30T01:51:57Z")
I’ve known about the records, of course, and have seen some of the images and heard some of the audio, but never presented as how they’d receive it. It’s quite eerie and profound watching and listening to it… imaging what “they” might be thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voyager-record-image-decoder/805514/3 "2017-12-30T02:26:58Z")
[quote=“Enola\_Straight, post:1, topic:805514”] \ [/QUOTE] Needs more cowbell. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voyager-record-image-decoder/805514/4 "2017-12-30T17:04:06Z")
Fascinating — thanks for sharing. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voyager-record-image-decoder/805514/5 "2017-12-31T02:51:01Z")
That’s wonderful. We’ve provided the aliens with our planet’s location, information on what resources we have for them to plunder, our level of technology that they will have to defeat, and on human anatomy so they will know exactly how to kill, butcher us and prepare us for consumption. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voyager-record-image-decoder/805514/6 "2017-12-31T03:11:49Z")
> [@Tibby or Not Tibby](#): > > Needs more cowbell. “Send more Chuck Berry”. ---
**Author:** ![txjim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f07891/32.png) [@txjim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/txjim)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voyager-record-image-decoder/805514/7 "2017-12-31T20:47:53Z")
What if the ETs upgraded to 4K by now? Should we send plans for a converter box?