Monday 20 May 2019

DEPT. OF SPECULATION (JENNY OFFILL) AND GOLDEN RECORD

The Golden Record included greetings in fifty-four human and one whale language, ninety minutes of music from around the world, and 117 pictures of life on Earth. These pictures were meant to suggest the widest possible range of human experiences. Only two things were off-limits. NASA decreed that no pictures could depict sex and no pictures could depict violence. No sex because NASA was prudish and no violence because images of ruins or bombs exploding might be interpreted by aliens as threatening.




The Golden Record was launched in 1977 inside the space probe Voyager. It´s like a message in a bottle in the sea, but there are very litle chances of someone receiving it. And it´s even more unlikely that the hypothetical recipient could decode the message.
The film The Arrival answers accurately the question of how to find a shared language with an ET civilization

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