The Voyager Golden Record is a phonographic disc that was included on the Voyager spacecraft in 1977. The twelve-inch gold and copper disc contains sounds and images that show the diversity of life and culture on Earth. The idea behind it is to communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrials. A NASA committee, organized by Carl Sagan of Cornell University, collected 115 images and a series of natural sounds of the planet and added music from different cultures and eras and spoken greetings from people in fifty-five languages.
There is also a message from US President Carter and UN Secretary General Waldheim. The disc contains information on how to play it so other life forms can hear the sounds it contains.
It could take forty thousand years before Voyager is close to another planetary system. As Carl Sagan has said, „The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced civilizations in space. But the launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet.‟
(In: Global Intermediate Coursebook: learn English, learn through English, learn about English. Lindsay Clandfield & Rebecca Robb Benne. Macmillan, 2011. Adaptado.)
Observe os números destacados e a ideia que eles apresentam em cada trecho.
I. The twelve-inch gold and copper disc…‘ (paragraph 1).
II. collected 115 images and a series of natural sounds…‘ (paragraph 1).
III. and spoken greetings from people in fifty-five languages…‟(paragraph 1).
IV. It could take forty thousand years… (paragraph 3).
Assinale a alternativa CORRETA.