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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