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After a seven-year
intensive effort involving one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, NASA
has just announced it has finally decoded the first message ever received on
Earth from an extraterrestrial intelligent source.
The message reads: SEND MORE CHUCK
BERRY
i am really sorry, i can never stop
myself from telling this joke.
below is a list of the music
contained on the "golden record" of the voyager
spacecraft.
more information on the contents of the recording can
be found @:
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/music.html
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Music
On Voyager Record
* Bach, Brandenburg
Concerto No. 2 in F. First Movement, Munich Bach Orchestra, Karl
Richter, conductor. 4:40
* Java, court gamelan,
"Kinds of Flowers," recorded by Robert Brown. 4:43
* Senegal, percussion, recorded by Charles
Duvelle. 2:08
* Zaire, Pygmy girls' initiation
song, recorded by Colin Turnbull. 0:56
*
Australia, Aborigine songs, "Morning Star" and "Devil
Bird," recorded by Sandra LeBrun Holmes. 1:26
* Mexico, "El Cascabel," performed by
Lorenzo Barcelata and the Mariachi México. 3:14
* "Johnny B. Goode," written and
performed by Chuck Berry. 2:38
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