A montage of sights and sounds etched into a record, then launched into space on the Voyager probe – listen to Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan’s Earth Guide For Aliens:
Read more at NPR:
So how do you decide what to put on the ultimate mix tape of the human experience? What do you do if you have one shot at describing humanity to an unknown life form? That was the charge of Carl Sagan — astronomer, astrophysicist and famed popularizer of science. Of course, Sagan had a lot of help, including the creative director of the project, Ann Druyan.