Almost.
18 miles up is a long way from being in space. Not even halfway, boys. Now if PE sent a turntable to the International Space Station, and played a record, That would be a first. Progressive Ears : First In Space ! (first the Kickstarter, then a turntable sponsor, then approach Space X to do it -- I bet Elon would LOVE the idea !!)
And then the Big question : What to play first ????? (I say CTTE ! )
First phonographic record played in space should be Chuck Berry Is On Top.
Voyager Golden Record was sent into deep space in 1977
They put a man on the moon in 1969 and finally put a record player into space!? What's next? An 8 track player?
To be or not to be? That is the point. - Harry Nilsson.
Whether or not it'll ever get played is another question. On Life Without People, they showed how there's all kinds of crap floating around in space that may eventually render the Voyager probes immobile or damage any given piece of equipment beyond repair. Which means even if is found by some extraterrestrial beings, they may yet not get to hear Chuck Berry (or Glenn Gould, for that matter).Originally Posted by rcarlberg
But I feel if Chuck Berry was good enough in 1977 to be rock n roll's ambassador to the stars, I say he should hold that position. That's why it bugged me when I heard they sent, I don't even remember what it was, but it was something considerably more "modern" out on one of the radio telescope transmitters or whatever it was. Ya know, it was like Jodrell Bank or something like that.
Anyhow, someone told me once that due to the nature of radio waves, and how they keep going out into space, there may even yet be someone, somewhere, on the other side of the galaxy, who maybe is gonna get to hear Little Queenie, Roll Over Beethoven, Almost Grown, Carol, and/or You Can't Catch Me, and thus mount a expedition to reach the source of these amazing sounds.
(I always liked the SNL sketch, a couple years after the Voyager probes were launched, where they announced the first message received from extraterrestrials: "Send more Chuck Berry!")
Hasn't been found and played...yet.
I think I misread the thread title.
That you know of.Hasn't been found and played...yet.
Just as long as V'Ger doesn't show up...That you know of.
It'd be more likely they'd say, "Send more pictures of naked people!"
They didn't include J.S. Bach on it because it would have seemed too much like boasting.
Well, has anyone ordered other copiesThat you know of.. Bet the shipping charges would be hell.
The older I get, the better I was.
That was the Pioneer plaque, no? Carl Sagan gives an interesting account of its origin in his book 'The Cosmic Connection'. Managed to offend just about everybody in one way or another.
God forbid that alien prog nerds get to it first.That you know of.
"This sucks! Poor bit rate! No 5.1! I wanna hear a needle-drop comparison!"
Alien porn. Hmm. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it.
The older I get, the better I was.
In the movie Apollo 18, one of the astronauts is listening to a cassette tape and through his headphones come the sweet sounds of "And You And I." Oh wait, that's fiction. Whatever, it's a cool as sci-fi flick about aliens and why we never went back to the Moon. And it's got Yes. What else do you want? Vincent Gallo?
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Yes, but there's nothing but disco on Mars, so.
"Do I have to talk about Disco Beavers From Outer Space?!"-Tony Hendra, in the recent National Lampoon documentary".
one can only dream of how much that would go for on eBay
Not all that much really, but shipping kills you.
I'd check the grooves for cosmic debris first...
I like that they were playing that Sagan "song".
Rumor has it that on the International Space Station, the Russians have been playing a lot of Dushanbe.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
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