The Voyager Golden Record carries 55 spoken greetings. One begins with a very familiar kind of hospitality.
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NASA describes a 12-inch gold-plated copper record aboard each Voyager. Images, natural sounds, music and greetings in 55 languages were selected to introduce life on Earth.
NASA's 2002 article translates the Amoy greeting as asking how the visitors are, whether they have eaten, and inviting them to visit. The detail makes a distant mission feel unexpectedly domestic.
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01Golden Record Overviewscience.nasa.govRecord format, contents and purpose.
Source date · Mission archive · checked 2026-10-2102Howdy, Strangersscience.nasa.govHistorical explanation of the greetings, including Amoy.
Source date · 2002-08-19AI-assisted research, writing and translation by No Secrets, using the linked public documents. This is a source summary, not firsthand reporting or an independently audited investigation. No affiliate links are used in this article.
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