Tired of political lambasting

Diana Damrau sings Mozart's "Queen of the Night" aria

"... NASA took a stab at selecting audio tracks for extraterrestrials. NASA’s goal was to help outer-space beings understand what life is like on Earth and to explain who we are."

 

"NASA created a varied selection of tracks for aliens to listen to. It was not all classical music. In the very first track, Kurt Waldheim, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, sent a message of friendship. Next came greetings from earthlings from around the world, speaking 55 different languages. After that, the two NASA disks presented a mixture of nature sounds (whales singing, crickets chirping), ethnic music (a Navaho song, a wedding song from Huancavelica and more), a great rock n’ roll selection (“Johnny B. Goode” by Chuck Berry), and a blues song (“Dark Was the Night” by Blind Willie Johnson). For a complete track list of what NASA included on the disks, visit the Wikipedia entry about them."