The Golden Record was supposed to include the Beetles "Here Comes The Sun" but the label wanted more in licensing fees than the whole thing cost to produce.
> the label wanted more in licensing fees than the whole thing cost to produce.
Hopefully this message was sent instead.
Humourously and sadly, it would be informative of aspects of human nature.
If it was communicated by radio at any point, the message was technically broadcast to pick up by sufficiently advanced receivers...
Approximately 1000 years to get to Omicron Persei 8, according to Futurama
Well ahead of the golden disk then.
Only the recording industry could take a record that will never be played and make the licensing fees more expensive than the gold record it would be printed on.
(actually it is gold-plated copper)
Yoko trying to collect royalties from aliens in outerspace was not on my bingo card.
Any bingo card with Yoko would have alien royalties be the *least* crazy square.