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This "Voyager" spacecraft was built by the United States of America.

We are a collective of 240 million human beings, and we live together with the 4 billion human beings living on the earth. We humans are still divided into nations, but these nations are rapidly becoming a single, integrated civilization.

We send a message to aliens. This article may exist for the next billion years, when our civilized world will undergo profound changes and the face of the earth will also undergo tremendous changes.

Among the 200 million planets in the Milky Way, some planets are celestial bodies inhabited by life and are also civilized worlds with interstellar justice.

If such a civilized world intercepted the "Voyager" and could understand these contents, I would only write the following message: This is a gift from a small, distant world; Symbols of our sounds, our science, our thoughts, our music, our thoughts and our emotions.

We are trying to delay time so that we can merge with your time. We hope that one day, after solving the difficulties we face, we can be among the unified body of the galactic civilized world.

This message can spread our hope, our determination, and our goodwill throughout the vast and awesome universe.

President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter, at the White House on June 16, 1977.

Other things the Voyager brought:

In addition to the letter, the Voyager probe also carried a gold-plated copper plate audio and video record. It was 12 inches thick and had a gold-plated surface. , with built-in gramophone needle.

The 55 human languages ??include ancient Mesopotamian Akkadian and other very rare languages, as well as four Chinese dialects (Mandarin, Wu, Hokkien, Cantonese) and a diamond The stylus can survive in the universe for 1 billion years.

There are also graphics of 117 kinds of animals and plants on the earth, as well as 90 minutes of music recordings from various countries, including the famous traditional Chinese guqin "Mountains and Flowing Waters", Mozart's "The Magic Flute" and the Japanese Shakuhachi. wait. ?

These sounds of the earth will echo in the universe with human expectations. People hope that it will encounter extraterrestrial life during its long years of wandering in the universe, and this record conveys a message from people on earth.