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The Voyager Golden Record contains 115 images plus a calibration image and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind, and thunder, and animal sounds, including the songs of birds and whales. The record additionally features musical selections from different cultures and eras, spoken greetings in fifty-nine languages, and printed messages from President Jimmy Carter and U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. The items were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University. After NASA had received criticism over the nudity on the Pioneer plaque (line drawings of a naked man and woman), the agency chose not to allow Sagan and his colleagues to include a photograph of a nude man and woman on the record. Instead, only a silhouette of the couple was included.〔Jon Lomberg: "Pictures of Earth". in Carl Sagan: ''Murmurs of Earth,'' 1978, New York, ISBN 0-679-74444-4〕 Here is an excerpt of President Carter's official statement placed on the Voyager spacecraft for its trip outside our solar system, June 16, 1977: We cast this message into the cosmos ... Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some – perhaps many – may have inhabited planets and space faring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message: This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope some day, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination and our goodwill in a vast and awesome universe.〔http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=7890〕 == Greetings == The first audio section contains a spoken greeting in English from then-Secretary General of the UN, Kurt Waldheim. The second audio section ("Greetings in 55 Languages") contains spoken greetings in 55 languages, including four Chinese varieties (marked with * *), 12 South Asian languages (marked #) and five ancient languages (marked §), listed here in alphabetical order: Later audio sections contain the spoken greetings in the remaining four languages, including Esperanto and !Kung. The whale sounds were provided by Roger Payne. This is a list of the recorded greetings in order of appearance on their respective tracks. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Contents of the Voyager Golden Record」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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