If you forget to take the needle off some records, it sometimes happens: the hidden track plays. A song for aficionados who don’t switch off immediately after the last official track. And we have hidden just such a track for you on our Golden Record:
Our guest is Carl Sagan? Carl Sagan led the Golden Record project and was part of the curatorial team. But he’s not just that, he’s also a great communicator (as you’ll hear), an ambassador for science and astronomy, and was involved in virtually all NASA missions that explored our solar system. Of course, we also ask him from which sunny place in the universe he answered our burning questions, even though he has been officially dead for thirty years.
Enjoy listening as we talk to him about his favorite song on the record, ask him why evil wasn’t represented, and how the after-work beer tasted after the record was completed.
links:
about Carl Sagant – https://carlsagan.com/
– https://carlsaganinstitute.cornell.edu
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
Carl Sagan’s Cosmos (Full Episodes) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9dptug4wzY&list=PLWTsw1mh-VO9gWKnT7EhbbwpI2g7e1NoY
Carl Sagan – Contact (1997) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q399v-pMG30
Skeptics Society – https://www.skeptic.com/join-the-movement/
The Age of Disclosure (Official Trailer 2025) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkU7ZqbADRs
Pioneer plaque (1972) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYtdQ8sA7Ao
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque
Voyager Golden Record – https://goldenrecord.org/#via-lactea
– https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/voyager-golden-record-overview/
Lynn Margulis – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Margulis
– Show on Lynn Margulis and the Holobiont-Theory by Golden Record Studios (in German) – https://zackboombang.net/2024/01/05/5-kultur-literaturwissenschaftlerin-salome-rodeck-im-schlamm-tanzen-holobionten/
The Drake Equation – https://www.seti.org/research/seti-101/drake-equation/
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
Fermi paradox – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbNPBcUgDTs – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox