It's so rare even Carl Sagan, who spearheaded the project, didn’t manage to snag one. But soon, actual humans will be able to listen to the The Voyager Golden Record — the mixtape of natural Earth sounds, spoken greetings in various languages, and human music from various cultures that NASA shot into space in 1977 for aliens to find.
A Kickstarter project is raising money to re-issue the record on gold vinyl (as opposed to the originals’ gold-plated copper disks, designed to withstand a billion years of space travel).
All goes to plan, for $98 plus shipping, the 3xLP set should be on sale next year in time for the Voyager launches' 40th anniversary. FULL STORY
