{"id":8983,"date":"2010-02-16T06:35:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T06:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/carl-sagan%e2%80%99s-mix-tape-cosmic-variance\/"},"modified":"2010-02-16T06:35:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T06:35:16","slug":"carl-sagan%e2%80%99s-mix-tape-cosmic-variance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/carl-sagan%e2%80%99s-mix-tape-cosmic-variance.php","title":{"rendered":"Carl Sagan\u2019s mix tape | Cosmic Variance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great Valentine&rsquo;s appropriate story on NPR the other day via the always awesome <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/radiolab\/\">Radio Lab<\/a>, involving Carl Sagan,<br>a whirlwind marriage proposal by phone, a 2500 year old Chinese song, and brain waves of new love sent into space on a golden record for future alien civilizations to find.<\/p><blockquote><p>This is a love story. And, oddly enough, it starts with an interstellar space mission and a golden record. Toward the end of the summer of &lsquo;77, NASA launched two spacecraft as part of the Voyager Interstellar Mission. On board each craft was a golden record that included, among other things, the sound of a kiss, a mother&rsquo;s first words to her newborn child, music from all over the world, and greetings in 59 different languages&hellip;<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Sagan&rsquo;s wife Ann Druyan <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=123534818\">tells the story<\/a>.<\/p><p>Orginally broadcast on the &ldquo;Space&rdquo; episode of Radio Lab &mdash; listen to the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/radiolab\/episodes\/2006\/05\/12\">whole thing here<\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\">.<\/a><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FUyiqC6Vt2YvlFQ-O3QdMorqfFU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5bdac_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FUyiqC6Vt2YvlFQ-O3QdMorqfFU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5bdac_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5bdac_sQP90WPlOS8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5bdac_qRHPAYDSKNo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Valentine&rsquo;s appropriate story on NPR the other day via the always awesome Radio Lab, involving Carl Sagan,a whirlwind marriage proposal by phone, a 2500 year old Chinese song, and brain waves of new love sent into space on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/carl-sagan%e2%80%99s-mix-tape-cosmic-variance.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}