Timeline for Why did V'Ger think that was its name?
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| Nov 25, 2021 at 3:14 | comment | added | Jane S | @OrganicMarble Well there you go, I never knew that! | |
| Nov 23, 2021 at 18:19 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | How to extract sound (oscillations) from a spiral groove whose depth oscillates is not very tough. Any intelligent beings would come to essentially the same solution if presented with the challenge of representing one-dimensional waves on a flat format. An analog spiral format is the obvious choice. | |
| Nov 23, 2021 at 12:33 | comment | added | Organic Marble | @JaneS a stylus was included with the record. No extra charge! space.stackexchange.com/q/43879/6944 | |
| Nov 23, 2021 at 9:43 | comment | added | GordonD | @JaneS The cover of the disc carried pictorial instructions on how to play it. | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 0:37 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 24, 2015 at 16:27 | comment | added | T.J.L. | It's made from handwavium. It runs on plotonium. ;) | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 22:54 | comment | added | Jane S | @Himarm It runs on Handwavium :) | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 22:35 | comment | added | Himarm | @Jane S how the universal translator does it is the biggest mystery | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 22:10 | comment | added | Jane S | @Himarm And all they had to do was to figure out that they had to spin this gold disc while with a needle placed in these tiny grooves. It doesn't seem a particularly obvious a thing to me with no context :) And even with that, how does that give the phonetics represented by English characters? :) | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 13:29 | comment | added | Himarm | The disc carries photos of the Earth and its lifeforms, a range of scientific information, spoken greetings from people such as the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the President of the United States and a medley, "Sounds of Earth," that includes the sounds of whales, a baby crying, waves breaking on a shore, and a collection of music, including works by Mozart, Blind Willie Johnson, Chuck Berry,. Other Eastern and Western classics are included, as well as various performances of indigenous music from around the world. The record also contains greetings in 55 different languages. | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 13:28 | comment | added | Himarm | @JaneS all of the voyagers have a gold disc on them with earth history, music, and other things, so it wouldn't be hard with that vast repository for the aliens universal translator, to figure it out. | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 5:23 | history | edited | Often Right | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 23, 2015 at 5:17 | comment | added | Jane S | After they'd learned to read English :) | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 4:58 | history | answered | Often Right | CC BY-SA 3.0 |