[ WP ] An advanced alien race intercepts the Voyager 1 and discover the golden record . They have no idea what it is or how to use it .

`` Test 195-C, begin.'' 
 
 I was in the glass box overlooking the enormous experimentation chamber. In the very center lies the Disc, the harsh light glaring off of its shiny surface. I watch my colleagues once again scan the Disc, once again finding nothing. Our greatest academics had decided that mathematics would be the only way to efficiently communicate with other alien civilizations, seeing that our complex language was far too hard for others to understand without assistance. 
 
 The first few scans cleared up the physical properties of the item - hundreds of rings, with even more grooves in each ring. At first we thought that we were supposed to run an item, a sort of *bit*, through the rings, but when we discovered the full physical appearence it seemed nonsensical. 
 
 I left the Disc tests to another scientist under my command and moved on to the second test chamber, where the actual space vehicle was being tested. It was an interesting design, with a dish antennae. It had been disassembled and categorized before a copy was made for physical examination. The original had been tested and come up positive for the normal marks of space - a few traces of G'ohti radiation, from where it had come close to black holes, some gasses from gas planets. Nothing unusual. 
 
 It had been 1 year since we first received the ship. It had been racing through space, when one of our ships came upon it. We'd figured out that, at the speed it was traveling at and the amount of space debris accumulated on it, that it came from a distant galaxy. A distant sun. 
 
 A distant planet.
