Answer by Pavel Janicek for How might modern humans leave a message for...
I am going to derive on the things already said and add few comments:1) The message must be interesting to pass on Take a story about Atlantis. Somewhere I heard that it actually describes a story...
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As has been said, language won't survive. Thus, don't use language in the first place, use pictures. I would a bunch of pictures made out of a pair of metals that won't corrode--not plating but images...
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My first thought is redundancy. You shouldn't send just one copy of the message, you should send thousands and through different methods. Some thoughts on possible methods:Rock carving in a protective...
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I think we can all agree that whoever finds this message in 50,000 years isn't going to speak English. Or Mandarin. Or Hindi, French, Spanish, Swahili, or, in fact, any language spoken today. So we'll...
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I recently played my way through the Mass Effect game series, and one of the ideas I found most intriguing was the emphasis placed on "time capsules" sent from one cycle to the next: not only did...
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