Posted on 02/24/2019 5:41:33 PM PST by BenLurkin
On board Beresheet is a specially designed disc encoded with a 30-million-page archive of human civilization built to last billions of years into the future.
The backup for humanity has been dubbed "The Lunar Library" by its creator, the Arch Mission Foundation (AMF).
The disc aboard Beresheet is about the size and thickness of a DVD, but consists of 25 stacked thin nickel films that AMF insists can resist radiation, extreme temperatures and other harsh conditions found in space for billions of years. There is, of course, no way to test how long it will last, but if it survives as long as hoped, the disc may even be around longer than the moon itself.
The top four layers are actually filled with 60,000 pages of tiny analog images that can be viewed with optical microscope technology that's been around for centuries. The images include a sort of users' guide explaining human language, the contents of the disc and how to access the deeper layers containing compressed digital data.
The digitized layers include a full copy of Wikipedia, more than 25,000 books and data for understanding over 5,000 languages.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...
I thought Chain of Command was pretty good
There are four lights.
Beresheet in Hebrew Means: In the beginning. The first book of the bible, (Genesis).
only the first billion years.
If any alien sees a photo of Joy Behar, they will flee in mortal terror at the speed of light in the opposite direction.
Early reports said it contained a digital copy of the Torah (Old Testament). Later stories consistently omit that.
Bookmarked
This is intended to be found by whom, and why?
It’s a road map, and instruction manual.
I was thinking frisbee, but this works!
And buried within all those pieces of data is a grand master plan to build a giant gantry housing a space vehicle that can travel through wormholes to distant planets.
“backup of humanity”
Absolutely HORRIBLE title.
Definition - humanity - THE HUMAN RACE.
The disc does not “back up” THE HUMAN RACE.
If they had said “backup of human history” they would have been correct. If they needed to shorten it, they could have said “backup of history”.
But “backup of the human race” it is not.
Thanks BenLurkin.
I have a collection of in excess of 300 un opened AOL discs and CD’s
Some day I will be rich
I also have 4 articles within the Israeli package
Ahhh, the good old days!
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