At Voyager's speed, if an alien capable of deciphering the message finds it they will either already be on their way here (since Voyager likely won't even be outside the Oort cloud, which is estimayed to take another 25000 years or so to cross), we will already have destroyed ourselves, or else we will have advanced sufficiently technologically to handle some ET visitors. On the things to worry about, conquering aliens using it as a road map to find us should be very, very low.
merccobb t1_j1v28h9 wrote
Reply to do we really believe aliens can decode the golden records by Calm-Confidence8429
At Voyager's speed, if an alien capable of deciphering the message finds it they will either already be on their way here (since Voyager likely won't even be outside the Oort cloud, which is estimayed to take another 25000 years or so to cross), we will already have destroyed ourselves, or else we will have advanced sufficiently technologically to handle some ET visitors. On the things to worry about, conquering aliens using it as a road map to find us should be very, very low.