Professionally printing on a garment-dyed heavyweight t-shirt.
This image is of the cover of the Golden Record, one of humanity’s most ambitious messages to the cosmos.
🛰️ What It Is:
The Golden Record was launched aboard Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1977 by NASA.
It’s a 12-inch gold-plated copper disc containing sounds, music, images, and greetings intended to represent the diversity of life and culture on Earth.
The disc was designed under the direction of Carl Sagan and his team as a cosmic message in a bottle.
🔍 What's on the Cover:
The etchings on the cover serve as instructions for any intelligent extraterrestrial beings who might find it. Key components include:
Phonograph Diagram (top left):
Shows how to play the record, including the stylus position and rotation direction.
Indicates the time scale in binary using the hyperfine transition of hydrogen as the base unit (21 cm wavelength / 1,420 MHz).
Audio Waveform & Calibration (top right):
Shows how the audio signal (greetings, music) is encoded.
Image Encoding Guide (middle right):
Illustrates how to reconstruct the 116 encoded images from analog data.
Pulsar Map (bottom left):
Indicates Earth’s location relative to 14 known pulsars, whose pulse rates are encoded in binary.
Designed so a finder could triangulate our position in the galaxy at the time of launch.
Hydrogen Molecule Diagram (bottom right):
Depicts the hydrogen atom’s spin-flip transition, the fundamental time and length standard used throughout the record.
🌍 Why It Matters:
The Golden Record is a symbol of human curiosity, creativity, and hope.
It's currently over 15 billion miles from Earth aboard Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object.
While it's unlikely anyone will ever find it, it stands as a testament to our desire to connect across the vastness of space.
Printing Details:
If you’re looking for a thick, structured tee that’s also super soft and breathable—look no further! The unisex garment-dyed heavyweight t-shirt ticks all the boxes and is made of 100% ring-spun cotton. The regular t-shirt style will complement most looks and fit you to a tee.
• 100% ring-spun cotton • Fabric weight: 6.1 oz/yd² (206.8 g/m²) • Garment-dyed • Relaxed fit • 7/8″ double-needle topstitched collar • Twill-taped neck and shoulders for extra durability • Double-needle armhole, sleeve, and bottom hems • Blank product sourced from Honduras
