In 1977, Carl Sagan was working with Annie Druyan to put together the gold records on the Voyager spacecrafts. Annie was the Creative Director of the Voyager Interstellar Message Project, responsible for putting together all the sounds on the gold records.
As she worked with Carl Sagan to compile the sounds, she fell in love with him and they eventually ended up getting married.
The story is amazing and touching and can be found on WNYC's Radio Lab podcast, or look on the website at http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/08/28 and go down to the "Your Brain on Love, in Space"
Annie's brain waves, heart, and other bodily impulses were were recorded and compressed into sounds to be included on the record. These readings were taken 2 days after they fell in love. Later she asked Carl if these impulses could be reconstituted by the aliens that found the record. Carl's response was, "who knows what might be possible?"
Listening to Annie telling the story you imagine that she is able to take comfort in the fact that her love for Carl is travelling out there, waiting to be relived, forever.
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