Also, it contains various "Murmurs of the Earth" such as: an avalanche, an elephant's trumpet, a human kiss, 90 minutes of some of the world's greatest music, & greetings in 54 different human languages.

The human greetings includes messages from U.N. delegates as well as brief messages from the president of the U.S. [Jimmy Carter] & the then Secretary-General of the U.N. (Kurt Waldheim of Austria.)

*The chance of the spacecrafts ever reaching extra-terrestrial life forms is really remote given the universe vastness. Still, by no means does it diminishes our effort of making contact with other possible life forms out there.