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[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I thought we only send a handful of pictures! Never knew they were so many. Amazing!

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

We sent video too, encoded on the golden record! And audio!

Unless I'm misremembering! I'm not, surely? O.o

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Only sound and pictures, video would take too much bandwidth. Also fun fact, the pictures are only 384 scanlines tall

[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Shouting at stars

A history of what we sent out there.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah! I guess the great increase in volume justifies the technical complication (for the aliens) of encoding all of the pictures onto an LP