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Rick Mabry <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:58:45 -0500
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Bill Hong wrote,

>On the wider topic at hand, there's one "experiment" whose results
>I would wish greatly to see, but which probably none of us ever will.
>That would be to see the reaction of some extraterrestrial being who
>came upon the Voyager spacecraft that are streaming away from the solar
>system, and who played the analog sound records that are lashed to them.

The one experiment I would choose along those lines would be to hear
THEIR music.

Do various bits of music ever strike you as "extra-terrestrial"?  That
is to say, so different, so original that they seem not to be of this
earth?  Which pieces?

Rick

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