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  1. Mar 2018
    1. The gold-plated versions, meanwhile, are hurtling away from Earth are more than 35,000 miles per hour, looking for an audience. They may go unheard forever. But that doesn’t really matter to Pescovitz.

      So cool how their are trying to reach things outside of this universe which could make all aspects of communication way more interesting.

    2. “It came to the point where I was calling Papua New Guinea at 2 o’clock in the morning, and working with amazing ethnomusicologists around the world to try to track down as much information as possible, to find out about who these people were, what the music was, who collected it and when,” Pescovitz said.

      Using other people to help you find better multimodal research for what you are looking for helped Pescovitz.

    3. “It was absolutely sublime,” Pescovitz said. “The quality was like nothing we’d ever heard.” Sound engineers then transferred the audio on the tapes to digital files.

      Their reaction to the new ways they were finding out how you can better here things and how much of a impact this was gonna have on the research of this audio.

    4. popular songs, sounds from nature, photographs, spoken greetings in dozens of human languages and one whale language—was, and still is, an alien civilization capable of deciphering the instructions on the cover to learn about one small world in the universe.

      Involves with all 5 modes of communication and has something to do with how these things came about through different communications.