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When it came to the decision to include Chuck Berry s Johnny B. Goode on NASA s Golden Record for the Voyager probes, which was meant to be discovered by aliens, there was some pushback, with some people arguing that rock music was too juvenile . Sagan responded to this by saying, There are a lot of young people on Earth.

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When it came to the decision to include Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode” on NASA’s Golden Record for the Voyager probes, which was meant to be discovered by aliens, there was some pushback, with some people arguing that rock music was too “juvenile”. Sagan responded to this by saying, “There are a lot of young people on Earth.”

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