{"id":326194,"date":"2010-02-16T01:35:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T06:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2010-02-16T01:35:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T06:35:16","slug":"carl-sagan%e2%80%99s-mix-tape-cosmic-variance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/326194","title":{"rendered":"Carl Sagan\u2019s mix tape | Cosmic Variance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great Valentine&#8217;s appropriate story on NPR the other day via the always awesome <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/radiolab\/\">Radio Lab<\/a>, involving Carl Sagan,<br \/>\na 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>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nThis 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 &#8216;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&#8217;s first words to her newborn child, music from all over the world, and greetings in 59 different languages&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sagan&#8217;s wife Ann Druyan <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=123534818\">tells the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Orginally broadcast on the &#8220;Space&#8221; episode of Radio Lab &#8212; listen to the <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/radiolab\/episodes\/2006\/05\/12\">whole thing here<a rel=\"nofollow\">.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FUyiqC6Vt2YvlFQ-O3QdMorqfFU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FUyiqC6Vt2YvlFQ-O3QdMorqfFU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FUyiqC6Vt2YvlFQ-O3QdMorqfFU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FUyiqC6Vt2YvlFQ-O3QdMorqfFU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CosmicVarianceBlog\/~4\/sQP90WPlOS8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/qRHPAYDSKNo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Valentine&#8217;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 golden record for future alien civilizations to find. This is a love story. And, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}