Voyager's Golden Record: Bach_Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F

[highfuturamic]

im listen in the x-files

[MrO420o]

I love when they played this song in x-files, thats the first time i heard this lovely tune :)

[steidl001]

There was the "wow" signal, then in 1994 (Arecibo, "Little Green Men") EPIC WOW. Realistically, I hope we get a reply within my lifetime, and that government(s) don't cover it up.

[gustavpistauer]

@RoundenBrown: Sorry. The life time of the Golden Record ist 500 million years. The live time of the Sun: 5 billion years.

[steidl001]

@gustavpistauer, Just curious here, but what is your statement based on? I know what you mean about our local star, but as far as the gold-plated copper record album, I'm a litle uncertain. The metals used in the album are certainly stable isotopes of their respective metals, so do please tell what you mean. Thanks. Will be happy to learn, if in fact there is fact behind your statement. Cheers.

[bxi48]

@gustavpistauer Thats quite untrue. Interstellar space is many more times more empty than the best vacuum humans can produce on earth.

As such, the record would probably outlive the Earth or Sun. Effects of micrometeoride impacts outside of the Solar system are virtually negligable

[saxabass]

The epitaph of a little-known race named "Man".

[necrodh]

the best song of the universe

[sidney4747]

i dont know any better way to achieve immortality. the sun and the earth will be long gone but this masterpiece will be flying around the heavens forever

[TehGameGeek]

thumbs up if Vsauce sent you

[MrYorkshireFella]

They should of recorded Peter Griffin singing "Bird is the Word" and sent that into space instead.

[alipitogen]

Sail on, Sebastian.

[AddictingVideos4U]

vsause

[BreChristie]

I would place money on the fact that Bach had no idea his work would one day be floating about space, as a representation of earth. What an honour though.

[mkotisrael]

it really gets me teary-eyed, thinking about that record floating in silence with this piece on it, it's like it screams out: we existed!

[19180605]

Behold all. The beauty of humanity personified.

[SulfurCitizen]

With all our faults, this makes me proud to be a human.

[jovanov4]

This song is too good for Earth........

[C2005H]

Agreed with @jovanov4 This is way too beautiful to represent all mankind

[SirSebastianWang]

Little did Johann know that his music would last for eternity, even after the end of humanity.

[nikanj]

Legacy

[strategery101]

Thank god no rap was put on the golden record. Music like this however does Earth justice! :)

[carnedge1986]

this in the hope that the aliens that recover the disc have ears and a concept of sound,or else its just frequency waves to them or something and they're all like wtf is this? its useless! lol

[wkunzelman1]

@carnedge1986 We sent pictures, sounds, voices, music. So if they can't understand one thing, hopefully they'll be able to understand *something.* We even made the record so simple to use, with a little diagram and everything.

[RoundenBrown]

Long after the sun exhausts its energy and swallows up the Earth, this record will still be out there.

[steidl001]

@RoundenBrown The best part of that, is that Our greatest legacy will survive infinitely longer than we will. :)

[WolfRayStar]

@RoundenBrown Thats actually far from the truth. The record is hypothesized to survive one million years or so until it has sustained so much damage from micrometeoroid impacts that it is rendered unreadable. The Sun has five BILLION more years to go before expanding into a red giant and swallowing the Earth.

[MrO420o]

@WolfRayStar wow way to sound like a condescending know it all asshole...... and just so you know this record isn't just floating in space by itself its within the voyager craft as with all the other pieces of music and artifacts, they aren't just exposed to the meteoroids or they wouldn't have bothered sending it out there. and to quote the guy below me"Effects of micrometeoride impacts outside of the Solar system are virtually negligible"

[myroseaccount]

All of the Brandenburgs should have been sent into space. Who knows an advanced civilisation might be so intrigued that they travel to earth in search of the rest.

[igornero666]

I gues next thing that will go in space sound like crap. and a other civalation will come and destroy justin bieber

[LuisEn2890]

@igornero666

LOL 

[mrkeogh]

@igornero666 Fingers crossed ;)

[XQlusiveProductions]

Beautiful performance. I hope anyone finding this record judges mankind by this song.

[WelcometoReality98]

It really amazes me how much this one little spacecraft could do to the entire human race.