On 12 September 2013 Voyager I officially left the solar system and began it's journey into interstellar space where, as far as we know, " no man has gone before ." Aboard this spacecraft is a gold plated, 33 rpm LP record containing a star chart with coordinates to the third planet from Sol, technical instructions explaining how to play the greetings in 55 Earth languages on the flip side of the album along with an "invitation" to any alien race who stumbles across this golden jewel now, or in the distant future, to come visit us.
This Golden Record was the brain child of Astronomer Carl Sagan.
Read more about it here.
I remember thinking at the time that this might not be a good idea. Carl Sagan dismissed criticism from his colleagues saying that any civilization advanced enough to intercept mankind's first interstellar spacecraft would have, or will have, long ago put aside the primitive emotions of greed and aggression. I hope he is correct--Klingons, Romulans and the Borg notwithstanding.
Anyway, Welsh, or Cymraeg, is among the 55 Earth languages included in the greetings from Earth on the golden record. The speaker in Welsh says " Good health to you now and forever " (translated into English). The actual recording now winging its way through interstellar space is here.
Let us hope [and pray] Dr. Sagan's optimistic outlook about potential discovery by an alien race is true. After all I doubt, or at least I hope, that though we might be considered primitive they will at least consider us more than just a good source of protein.
Perhaps even more optimistic than Dr. Carl Sagan are the words from the Chineese Amoy [Min] dialect included on the record: " Friends of space, how are you all? Have you eaten yet? Come visit us if you have time ."
updated by @harold-powell: 11/11/15 10:39:00PM