[ProtectOurFreedom]

NASA did a lot of thinking about this 50 years ago and produced the Voyager Golden Record that were included aboard the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. The challenge of speaking to humans 50,000 years in the future will be non unlike the challenge of speaking to aliens.

Have you thought about using this as a starting point?

This gold aluminium cover was designed to protect the Voyager 1 and 2 "Sounds of Earth" gold-plated records from micrometeorite bombardment, but also serves a double purpose in providing the finder a key to playing the record. The explanatory diagram appears on both the inner and outer surfaces of the cover, as the outer diagram will be eroded in time. Flying aboard Voyagers 1 and 2 are identical "golden" records, carrying the story of Earth far into deep space. The 12 inch gold-plated copper discs contain greetings in 60 languages, samples of music from different cultures and eras, and natural and man-made sounds from Earth. They also contain electronic information that an advanced technological civilization could convert into diagrams and photographs. Currently, both Voyager probes are sailing adrift in the black sea of interplanetary space, flying towards the outmost border of our solar system.

[Personal Note: My dad led the program at GE to build the Radioisotope Thermal Generators that power the two Voyager spacecraft! RIP, dad. Well done!]

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Have you thought about using this as a starting point?

Yes, but a much lower tech version. The target audience doesn't have the ability to decode a disc like that. They'll read a readable version of Sagan's Murmurs of Earth.

There will be pointers to the singular Microsoft Silica archive and the few Long Now Foundation's Rosetta Project archives.

[doorgunner69]

Maybe ebonics will be the lingua franca by then

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Personal Note: My dad led the program at GE to build the Radioisotope Thermal Generators that power the two Voyager spacecraft! RIP, dad. Well done!”

So cool! My Dad and Grandpa were both Machinists and Grandpa worked on the bombs that hit Japan to end WW2, and Dad worked on the ‘super secret’ space rockets to the Moon when President Kennedy challenged them to get there in 10 years.