Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive

Hugh Pickens writes "Kevin Kelly has an interesting post about an archive designed with an estimated lifespan of 2,000 -10,000 years to serve future generations as a modern Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta disk contains analog 'human-readable' scans of scripts, text, and diagrams using nickel deposited on an etched silicon disk and includes 15,000 microetched pages of language documentation in 1,500 different languages, including versions of Genesis 1-3, a universal list of the words common for each language, and pronunciation guides. Produced by the Long Now Foundation, the plan is to replicate the disk promiscuously and distribute them around the world in nondescript locations so at least one will survive their 2,000-year lifespan. 'This is one of the most fascinating objects on earth,' says Oliver Wilke. 'If we found one of these things 2,000 years ago, with all the languages of the time, it would be among our most priceless artifacts. I feel a high responsibility for preserving it for future generations.'"

Comments

Re:Pfff

[Anonymous Coward]

Protip: wishful thinking doesn't make the Bible say things it doesn't. People who think being a good person would earn them any brownie points with the Biblical God are ignorant of their own religion.

Re:Should have used Harry Potter...

[DerekLyons]

We fucked up somewhere.

Yeah, we allowed idiots acess to the internet.
 

Think of what we could have included: the music that influenced generations, films that invoke anger, sadness, joy, books that literally changed the way that the world thought -- and not one bit of it can be reproduced, all because some assholes wanted to collect a check from an animated mouse.

Tons of it can be reproduced - because it is in the public domain due to it's copyright having expired. Or are you you arrogant and ignorant as to believe the only things that have so influenced mankind have only been produced within the last century?

nice device but stop the jezus nonsense

[smittyman]

I like the concept a lot, i would prefer that they would limit the information to scientific data, math, chemistry, biology, physics, incl the language samples etc. So IF by some major event the world would loose that info it would be retrieved by finding this object.

And now for something completely different....(refering the the genesis part)

I would also prefer people stopping with the jezus and god nonsense, i mean we know the stories were written about 70 years after they 'happened' so come on !:$. I know it is near pointlessness to bring it up again but please wake up from the dream and step into the real world, but there is no guy with a long beard sitting on a cloud laughing his ass off while we kill, maim, mutilate, LIE, lie some more, and keep on lie-ing year in year out.

I do bet it is easy not to have to think about it and that is why it probably is as persistant as it is (that and including the owwww sins you get for free when your born.... so in other words the God creates you, in his image and so apparantly he has some sins too / creates sinners, wow, nice guy...). Anywho could go on for hours... Bottomline, for me, is that it is one big hoax and ppl are still falling for it....