Episode 13 ︱Encoding a New Golden Record with International Space University’s Eternal Echo Team
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How to design a durable and decipherable message for an intelligent species elsewhere in the cosmos? We talk to team members from the International Space University's Space Studies Program about their project Eternal Echo, an assignment to create an updated version of the Golden Record, a gold-plated copper disk of sounds and images affixed to both Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. Team members explain their methodologies and ponder the implications of Messaging Extra Terrestrial Life (METI), the future of humanity, and the need for open-access science to improve life on Earth now. 
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