For future time and beings : draft essay

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Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 2 of For future time and beings : draft essay vr FOR FUTURE TIMES AND BEINGS I had monuments made of bronze lapis lazuli alabaster and white limestone and inscriptions on baked clay I deposited them in the foundations and left them...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 3 of For future time and beings : draft essay The confidence in the future evinced by the 1930 Worlds Fair was dramatically illustrated by the Time Capsule a chamber hermetically sealed filled with newspapers books and artifacts of 1939 buried in...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 4 of For future time and beings : draft essay who have done something they consider worthwhile communication to the future is an almost irresistible temptation and it has been attempted in virtually every human culture In the best of cases it...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 5 of For future time and beings : draft essay 4 of course be the way they are the details of our particular civilization are extraordinarily unlikely and it is easy to imagine a set of historical events which would have led...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 6 of For future time and beings : draft essay 5 Many scientists therefore now think it likely although it is by no meare guaranteed that innumerable other planets have seen the origin of simple forms of life their slow evolution into...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 7 of For future time and beings : draft essay 6 Thus whatever the differences in starting points there must come to be a gradual convergence in intellectual content and discipline between diverse planetary species So if it is possible to communicate...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 8 of For future time and beings : draft essay 7 information about which are the likely candidates that it would be astonishing if the very first efforts were rewarded with success A longterm effort of a few dedicated radio telescopes occupying...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 9 of For future time and beings : draft essay 8 But it is hard to resist sending out something ourselves Most interplanetary spacecraft will pass by the target planet and remain in a long looping trajectory around the sun to become...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 10 of For future time and beings : draft essay 9 and foreverthe depths of interstellar space Or at least probably forever The chance of Pioneers 10 or 11 entering another planetary system in say the next 10 billion years is tiny...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 11 of For future time and beings : draft essay 10 In 1974 a small satellite with a heart of solid uranium was launched into a very high very circular orbit around the Earth It has external facets which make it look...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 12 of For future time and beings : draft essay li ât the vogy last minute for another purpose But it is pinpointed for a time in the future far more remote than any attempted before the advent of spaceflight 1 AIM...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 13 of For future time and beings : draft essay 12 for example on the structure of our proteins and nucleic acids I organized a small group of scientific consultants to provide advice on the message content including Philip Morrison Professor of...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 14 of For future time and beings : draft essay 13 ancient derelict In a telephone message from Ceylon on January 3 1977 Arthur Clarke recommended that the plaque contain a message to remote descendant saying Please leave me alone let me...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 15 of For future time and beings : draft essay 14 containing the Beethhoven Ninth Symphony or ho suggcafred if the lifetii kwould be too short a comparable wire recording 7TfHj VIay4ii4_jiV fhtU tupi In late January 1977 the American Astronomical Societyqj...

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Date: 1978-01-30

Image 16 of For future time and beings : draft essay 15 I was delighted with the suggestion of sending a record for a different reason 9 heobviouo implication that we could send music Our previous messages had contained information about what we...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 17 of For future time and beings : draft essay 16 The pressing of an ordinary vinyl 12inch longplaying record is made from a mold which in turn is made from a copper or nickel positive master called a mother Since the...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 18 of For future time and beings : draft essay 17 his pciuiupanying comments represent the first coherent statement we received on possible organizing principles for the diversity of human music to be included Another early set of recommendations this by Jon...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 19 of For future time and beings : draft essay 18 Voyager record which is not in the Eastern or Western classical traditions was recommended to us by 1A Lomax He was a persistent and vigorous advocate for including ethnic music at...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 20 of For future time and beings : draft essay 19 By this time I had asked my friends Timothy Ferris and Ann Druyan to help with the record project Both had strong musical backgrounds and were rery enthusiastic about the idea...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 21 of For future time and beings : draft essay 20 the exterior of the spacecraft had been allowed for The temperature of the delicate electronics on board interplanetary spacecraft must be controlled with great precision if the scientific objectives of such...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 22 of For future time and beings : draft essay 21 that time reviewing the nonmusical sound collection of the Library of Congress Through the courtocy of the Smithsonian InaLiLuLluu ________TN4gís1ntSgCTta3yi We J_ cSTÇ i yysfifi11 had a small hifi musical met...

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Date: 1978-01-30

Image 23 of For future time and beings : draft essay 22 which Murry Sidlin vigorously opposed But I was very sensitive to the feeling that Bach and Beethoven represent the best of the musical tradition of the West the culture that launched...

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Date: 1978-01-30

Image 24 of For future time and beings : draft essay 12478 4 f P INSERT INTO CARLS VOYAGER BOOK 1IANUSCRIPT Great care was taken with all the musical selections in an attempt to be as fair and representative as possible in terms...

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Date: 1978-01-30

Image 25 of For future time and beings : draft essay Insert Page 2 But it is clear that this position did not carry the day fortunately we had already selected something which I believe to be much better Alan Lomax had called...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 26 of For future time and beings : draft essay 23 By late May 1977 the general configuration of the musical selections was becoming clear Each selection to be included 9ftthe cpacocrafti records would have to have a copyright release because the...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 27 of For future time and beings : draft essay 24 re80urces to send a record to the stars where even if there are many potential listeners no impact on corporate profits is likely to be made 5 at least in the...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 28 of For future time and beings : draft essay 25 ox of human languages perhaps through the occasional interception of television broadcasts from the planet Earth this is at J best an extremely long shotia4jy far the most likely situati ill...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 29 of For future time and beings : draft essay 26 requested by NASA including a firm 9tatomont by NASA that there was definitely to be a Voyager record and that any UN greetings would be included This posed a further dilemna...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 30 of For future time and beings : draft essay 27 r her native language I had hoped that something like half cf the voices could be male and half female in order to reflect the distribution of sexes on the planet...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 31 of For future time and beings : draft essay 28 I hsé approached v Arnold Frutkin NASAs Associate Administrator for International Affairs for help Frutkin eventually succeeded in having the State Department instruct the U S Mission to the United Nations...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 32 of For future time and beings : draft essay 29 wished to make a speechptmsftpnritrrthpsippr Some of the greetings were in fact quite lovely The French delegate read poetry by Baudelaire and the Swedish delegate by the contemporary Swedish poet Harry...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 33 of For future time and beings : draft essay 30 is used as a greeting among the humpback whales So to leave no hint of provincialism in the greetings from the United Nations delegation we mixed these characteristically human greetings with...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 34 of For future time and beings : draft essay 31 nrorTiiced in ep the incompanyjftgbojE But now a further question came to mind Would it be appropriate to have some remarks by the U p Secretary General on board the Voyager...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 35 of For future time and beings : draft essay 32 Forhose who might find a comparison of the original draft che one whichthe President actually signed intçr I V_ the twlp ae printed sidebyside ir Jhe fccompanying nnvrs The causal chainjatmr...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 36 of For future time and beings : draft essay 33 The late arrival of the presidential and particularly thecongressional material caused a range of organizational problems The 116 pictures had already been transcribed into the appropriate format for the record at...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 37 of For future time and beings : draft essay 34 phe Outer Space Committee greetings proved such 0r a poor representation of the languages spoken the planet Earthy emergency measures had to be instituted Frutkin TVfcwV4Vuy proposed giving a cocktail party...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 38 of For future time and beings : draft essay 35 In early June immediately after the mixing of the greetings music and dounds of Earth portions of the Voyager record a dele ctTCe0 f gation of NASA officials cama to the...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

Image 39 of For future time and beings : draft essay 36 by a composer from his homeland We found ourselves unable to complyT with thia rcquootn There were a number of principles behind our selection of pictures for the Voyager record but...

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Date: 1978-01-30

Image 40 of For future time and beings : draft essay 37 inventory of characteristics of diverse planetary biologies and cultures If e had not yet heard much about he Earth the record might prove not onlyfAisefulpbut alsojreadily understandable And if they had...

Contributor: Sagan, Carl
Date: 1978-01-30

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