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Answer by paul23 for How might modern humans leave a message for 50,000 years?

There is a technique that might be interesting and not "far future" (currently we can only show a proof of concept, we have not tested it, but it's not far of the "self driving cars" future).

The bigger problem with a message that needs to outlive ourselves is that it needs to "stay alive": as in, it needs to not be destroyed.

To stay alive we can quite literary just do that: either make a robot that is self replicating and intelligent enough that it knows how gather supplies to make multiple copies of itself which.

Or even simpler: encode the message as a DNA sequence into the DNA of some species, many virii actually carry "information" about our history this way. And if you can encode it into a strong bacteria like the cyano bacteria it's probably going to last for a 100s of million years.


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