A Georgian polyphonic song travels farther from Earth than any human creation, carrying a nation's voice into the cosmos—and its journey raises ancient questions about what humanity chooses to remember.
I must have been eight or nine the first time an adult told me, with unmistakable pride, that a Georgian song was floating somewhere past the edge of the solar system. I remember nodding along the way children do when a fact is clearly supposed to ma... [6786 chars]