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Answer by Pica for How might modern humans leave a message for 50,000 years?
You pack it into a lightouse made of diamond, in orbit, powered by the sun. The message is beamed out as laser, towards any planet that can host life (astronomy allows to compute those even today) and...
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2 methods come to mind;Quartz memory discs. They are a are currently existing technology that will store information for close to 12 billion years! - The problem? Designing a reader or instructions for...
View ArticleAnswer by user76409 for How might modern humans leave a message for 50,000...
Ancient hominids managed to leave messages for longer periods of time. Evidently from this we can gather that the best way to leave a message, is leaving it more than once and more than in one place in...
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Leaving aside the problem of actually deciphering the message in 50,000 years, there is one storage medium that is almost guaranteed to make it.Say it with diamonds.Most natural diamonds have ages...
View ArticleAnswer by Cumehtar for How might modern humans leave a message for 50,000 years?
I would like to develop on the redundancy idea. I think the message should be not only redundant, but it's should be a sort of a physical RAID - a cross-referenced repeatable array of data.As for the...
View ArticleAnswer 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...
View ArticleAnswer by Frames Catherine White for How might modern humans leave a message...
This expands on https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/3433/2700"Redundancy",but I felt it too large to be a suggested edit.Not thousands of copies: millions, or even billions.You know why we can...
View ArticleAnswer by Artidan22 for How might modern humans leave a message for 50,000...
Carve it into extremely hard rock, encase that in Lucite, and put it on the surface of the moon.Unless hit by a meteor, it should last millions of years.Look at Nazca...they scratch some line in the...
View ArticleAnswer by Oleg V. Volkov for How might modern humans leave a message for...
Just pass it through generation as you would any other scientific information. Wiki mentions that the problem is:Unfortunately, there is no method available to continuously providethe necessary...
View ArticleAnswer by underscore for How might modern humans leave a message for 50,000...
According the news from phys.orgEternal 5D data storage could record the history of humankind.The storage allows unprecedented properties including:360 TB/disc datacapacity,thermal stability up to...
View ArticleAnswer by donison24x7 for How might modern humans leave a message for 50,000...
Well its a great Question, I think the best way to preserve a message for 50,000 years and also be understandable to the people is to make draft of useful information e.g rock carving,books,hard disks...
View ArticleAnswer by Gerry MacOstair for How might modern humans leave a message for...
Pass it on to your children and make sure they understand the importance of passing it on to their own offspring - and try to be as convincing as you might. If future generations consider your message...
View ArticleAnswer by vodolaz095 for How might modern humans leave a message for 50,000...
Now we can send a sattelite to a high and stable orbit, that can fly here for 50k years. If orbit is quite high, satellite will not be stopped by Earth atmoshpere, and it can orbit Earth forever. We...
View ArticleAnswer by Josh T for How might modern humans leave a message for 50,000 years?
Place a large terrestrial object in orbit around the earth, a second moon if you will. Place it on a strange orbit so that it clearly isn't the result of nature. Possibly make it a strange shape or...
View ArticleAnswer by NotMe for How might modern humans leave a message for 50,000 years?
I just wanted list a few projects that exist and pertain to this question.LAGEOS - A series of scientific research satellites which use lasers to measure the planet's shape. LAGEOS-1 is predicted to...
View ArticleAnswer by johnkork for How might modern humans leave a message for 50,000 years?
Actually, an attempt has been made in the past, and we can still access the message nowadays : bible, kûran,...The best way to make a message go through centuries is to make people alienated about the...
View ArticleAnswer by brett jolly for How might modern humans leave a message for 50,000...
There are many long orbit comets that pass by every 50,000 years, and the half-life of Uranium is over 4 billion years, so a powerful multi frequency transmitter encased in synthetic diamond powered by...
View ArticleAnswer by D__ for How might modern humans leave a message for 50,000 years?
There's a very specific existing case study of nearly this exact question.In the 1970s, the US Department of Energy began investigating what is now known as the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant as a means...
View ArticleAnswer by exebook for How might modern humans leave a message for 50,000 years?
Even the pyramids are not guaranteed to survive that long.You could engrave something on the really hard crystal and make sure the words and the crystal are big enough to keep the shape under...
View ArticleAnswer by underscore for How might modern humans leave a message for 50,000...
Encode it with some added redundancy (mutation-resistancy) and inject it in to the DNA of the several geographically distributed organisms (from single to multi cell) with the option of on some species...
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