Don't worry about your Desert Island Disc. It's been 30 years since the launch of the twin Voyager spacecraft. Each probe had a golden record with sights and sounds from Earth, including greetings in 54 languages including a hello from humpback whales.
Now Nasa is asking what you would you include in a new golden record. One commenter worried that we had given alien races directions to our home planet:
The only evidence we have on the relationship between "advanced" spieces and and less advanced spieces is the way humans treat other creatures on this planet. If that process is replicated we can look forward to enslavement at best and extinction at worst. It is possible they would be benign or friendly but we would be at their mercy either way.
(Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos.)
Others were a little more generous with the information they would offer. Joseph Guido thought we should include the human genome.
Roshaan thought we should include UFO sightings so that aliens could stand up and identify themselves.
There were also several nominations for tunes for this cosmic road trip, including Everlong by the Foo Fighters, "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" as performed by Karen and Richard Carpenter and "the best metallica peice out there: the insturmental 'Orion'".
What information would you include?
