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 ...
That barely covers DC Comics from start to end.
Does it come with a warranty?
It will be found about 10,000,000 years from now by an ape-like creature who will eat it....
But this ultimate cliffhanger will not reveal the answer to the question of whether western civilization survives.
> Part of the motivation for the far-out project is to leave a copy of humanity’s knowledge not just in the cloud, but far beyond the clouds, should the impacts of climate change or a potential nuclear war do us or the planet in at some point in the future.
Right. Climate change.
Anyway, should some catastrophe befall humanity, how will the survivors reach it?
See #6. It will get mixed in with a box of AOL installation disks.
There’s no mention of Joy Behar on this, is there?
If any aliens see a photo of Joy Behar, they’ll fry this planet to a crisp!
Perfect!
Beresheet actually means “Be Light!” not “Let there be light”
If it contains Obambi’s CD of speeches, the aliens will laugh themselves to death.
I thought that was what came out the rear end of the bere.
Ping.
Loosely speaking of course ... close, real close.
The Wiki edit function will be difficult.
A great idea. But the Borg already have us under observation.
Bored to death. They’ll be bored to death.
The UN will protest their obvious attempt to occupy the moon as soon as the lander touches down. Prorests will begin in Palestine. //Sarc//
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