I am a huge space nerd so this was a very fun assignment to think about and complete. The Golden Record has long captured my imagination both in the technological feat of producing and sending an auditory record billions of miles into space and the feat of imagination to curate the world’s music in a short 27 piece list. Our task this week was to further reduce the list to a very short ten selection list. I'm glad there was a starting list to work from because as a music lover I would have found it near impossible to make a ten-song list from scratch. Here is my shorten Golden Record list (in no particular order) with links to the music on YouTube so you can listen through if you wish:
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7/2/2020 01:34:27 pm
I loved your selection . . . so different from my own. I can remember when this project was underway at NASA, and the stir it caused, but I was too young to appreciate its meaning and purpose. Today, I wonder, will it ever be intercepted? What will they think, or will they care? One of the things about humanity that always moves me is our unending curiosity to know and understand who we are and why we are here, what is our purpose and are we part of a larger, unknowable plan? But, who knows if other intelligences will have these questions at all?
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Jamie
7/5/2020 06:19:53 am
Hi Tanya,
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Tanya
8/8/2020 06:33:04 pm
I do think that try to send a playlist into space now would be a much more difficult, perhaps impossible, prospect. In the time since the Golden Record, many more genres have been popularized in all the cultures of the world AND we know more about them. The general public wasn't as knowledgeable about the world at large as they are now. The Web has given us the ability to instantly travel through space and time to reach people all over the world (for better or worse). There is also an increase in the availability of the tools to record and share music, which increases the potential candidates.
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