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I first read about this on Discover magazine. A French artist named Jean-Marc Philippe is building a "time capsule" called KEO to send into space that is designed to fall back to Earth after 50,000 years. He's hoping to send as many letters as possible, stored on CDs for the future humans to read (assuming we still exist). Everyone's allowed 6000 words in any language.
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I'm sure in fifty thousand years everyone will have CD-ROM capabilities.
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There are instructions on how to build one if one doesn't exist in the future.
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What if Earth becomes the Planet of the Apes and they can't read????
"A planet where apes evolved from men?"
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I'm so glad that Sol and I share the same brain on occasion.
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I think many countries are making a time capsule for the future. We're (the UK) making a time capsule about what British life is like at the end of this millennium and it will apparently be buried under the millennium dome where people in 1000 years time can look at and see what we were like and what life was like. The government asked schools to contribute towards what should be put in the capsule, and the response included a car and posters of the Spice Girls.
That'll teach the government not to put anything like this to children again.
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Sol's post reminds me of that Outer Limits with Wil Wheaton.
------------------ Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")
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Hm... Let's see here... The instructions for buliding a CD reader are in "simple symbolic language". Why not write them in one of the languages of today? I mean, if the people of the year 52001 (though I really hope they'll have a better calender system by then) can't translate the languages we have now, it won't do them much good to build the CD reader, because they won't be able to read any of the letters!
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You've all seen Star Trek I. Now see Star trek XI. Enterprise E finds another anamole like Vger. This time it is a time capsule sent from Earth almost five hundred years ago. It ends up destroying the Federation and the dominion.
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Perhaps something written would be better than a CD. We can still dechipher Egyptian hyroglyphics after millennia thanks to artifacts like the rosetta stone, and the written word has proved itself to be superior to most "modern" information storage media in withstanding the wear and tear of the ages.
As for the contents? Perhaps a cryogenically preserved Monty clone? Or a set of fake histories that tell of the advanced civilisation of squirrels that have dogged humanity's progress for centuries? Or a complete DVD set of Trek to date?
Aw hell, let's try something more ..EEEEvillll. (bites pinkie) How about one of those last smallpox samples? Unleash it insidiously on the happy carefree people of the future, who will live in utopia while we rotted in our own filth back in the 20th C. That'll teach them....
(nurses seize Monty and draghim off) NaaaaaRGh! No mOrE MediICINe!!! Urrr...
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