If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents,
here is our message.
This is a present from a small distant world,
a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music,
our thoughts, and our feelings.
We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.
This record represents our hope and our determination,
and our good will in a vast and awesome universe.
We cast this message into the cosmos.
It is likely to survive a billion years into our future,
when our civilization is profoundly altered
and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed.
Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy,
some, perhaps many,
may have inhabited planets and spacefaring civilizations.