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The Voyager Golden Records: Greetings from the Beleaguered but Hopeful Humans of Planet Earth

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by Andrew Hamlin
In 1977, the United States, acting on behalf of the Planet Earth, launched two deep-space probes a few weeks apart, Voyager 1 and 2, tiny druplets expelled from the complex raspberry of our civilization. They flew by Jupiter and Saturn, sending incredible pictures and crucial revelations about the weather, magnetic fields, rings and moons of the two gas giants.
As I type this, Voyager 1—which was actually launched after Voyager 2—is flying through space and is roughl

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