Eighteen months on, the alien who discovered Voyager's Golden Record still hasn't gotten around to listening to the whole thing.

"The wind, rain, and surf sounds are pretty cool, but I usually sort of zone out when it gets to the crickets chirping, and then I just end up turning it off," said Ellinger, adding that he will sometimes put the record on as background noise when he's cleaning his electro-biological habitat.

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