Earth's Dubplate

As we are clueless to whether life is out there in that expanse we call the universe, why not send a golden record to space in the hope that something somewhere cannot only decode cryptic instructions but that they have also invented the record player.

Umm... good luck NASA, you crazy optimistic romantic American dick-spaaatts

"This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours" - US President Jimmy Carter

http://goldenrecord.org/ - images and audio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record - info