EVIDENCE OF HUMANITY

As both Voyager spacecraft have entered interstellar space, the Golden Records have left the Solar System. One day, the information compiled here may be the last remaining evidence of humanity. This evidence includes 115 encoded photographs, 55 greetings in global languages, a 12-minute recording of sounds from Earth and 90 minutes of music. Some of the photographs include silhouettes of a man and a pregnant woman, people eating, the Taj Mahal, an aerial photograph of Earth, an image of Pluto, Olympic sprinters racing on a track and a page from Isaac Newton’s book, The System of the World. The sounds that were chosen to represent Earth were those of humpback whales, brainwaves, storms, volcanoes and rocket launches. Among the chosen music artists were Mozart, Beethoven, Chuck Berry and electrical composer Laurie Spiegel.