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Wikipedia May Get Delivered To The Moon (wikimedia.org)
A new Meta page on Wikimedia.org reports: "A group of science enthusiasts from Berlin, Germany, are planning to send their own custom-built rover to the Moon. And they want to take Wikipedia with them."
Sort of. Wikimedia Deutschland has been offered space on a data disc to be carried by one of the five image-gathering rovers still competing to land on the Moon by 2017 for the Google Lunar XPRIZE challenge. But there's only 20 gigabytes of space, so they're calling on the Wikipedia communities to agree on which content should be included by June 24. "Even if only a snapshot of Wikipedia can be brought to the Moon, its content will equal a genuine snapshot of the sum of all human knowledge..." the Meta page explains "This is an anniversary gift to all Wikipedia communities all over the world."
Now is your chance to send your message to the moon.
Seriously, if I were Bigelow, I would be thinking in terms of what parts of the net are vittle and useful. Wikipedia actually IS both vittle and useful.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Even if only a snapshot of Wikipedia can be brought to the Moon, its content will equal a genuine snapshot of the sum of all human knowledge..."
Or is it the most unintentionally hilarious thing I've read so far today? Sometimes the line is very blurred.
Certain Wikipedia pages are locked from random edits, since they are considered complete. These, at least, should be used. It should also be ensured that the links from those pages are archived, also. Those pages, too, have links, but you need to stop somewhere.
except for, you know, stuff that isn't "notable"
I mean wasn't there that crystal disk that would supposedly last nearly forever (relative to the human life span) and could hold like petabytes of data? I realize that space missions really take weight into serious consideration but adding one of those would mean a few extra grams. Not to mention hold significantly more than the whole of Wikipedia.
Wasn't it supposed to be last for quite some time (not sure how it would handle the radiation) and hold petabytes of data? Assuming the radiation wasn't an issue and the few grams it would add to the payload was sufficiently insignificant, that would be able to carry significantly more than 20gb of wiki articles to the moon.
I'm thinking a Humankind Rosetta stone. All known past and present writing systems spelling out the same message. Same with mathematical systems.
Putting a plaque on the moon made sense. We needed to show we'd made it that far.
Why do we need "the sum of human knowledge" up there, though? I mean, if aliens stop by to have a look when we're not around, they're probably not going to look at the moon first. It's orbiting something much more interesting.
Why is there only 20GB of space?
Now if humanity destroys itself, aliens can find out about our civilization preserved on whatever format that won't have bit rot. They're preserving it in a format without bit rot, right?
God spoke to me
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_conspiracy_theories
It needs to be an audio book.
How about putting it on one(or a few) of those purported 100,000+ year discs... If civilization ever falls and humanity survives to advance again; By the time the moon is reached again they could likely decipher the contents(eventually)...
How to make the location identifiable over such a long period...
I don't know what "crystal disc" you're talking about, but it sounds like they're using M-DISC. It's basically engraved into a ceramic layer.
"99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
"And in Future News, in response to the hack of Wikipedia's servers and the discovery that their offsite backup service was a scam, the Wikimedia foundation has launched the new Wikimedia Lunar X-Prize, for the first team who can travel to the moon, retrieve a data disc and return it safely to Earth...."
"99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
If it was up to me, I would select a handful or articles to describe what was being done (i.e., one on wikipedia, one on the Moon, one on the Lunar X prize, one on whatever Apollo mission they are going to land near, maybe one on Germany, no more than order 10 at all) and then select items randomly until the 20 GB was used up.
We seriously don't know what the "audience" would want to read about; doing it randomly would to some degree avoid the "they included all this junk no one cares about, and totally neglected X" problem with most historical summaries from, say, the classical era.
http://www.dailytech.com/Scien...
this stuff?
http://www.dailytech.com/Scien...
Upload her porn video. Lets be honest astronauts masturbate too. If you were alone working on the moon and you came home after a long days work. Just think how many times you would watch this?
then they can see what retards the public knowledge base was made from. the whole thing is littered with censorship, propaganda and void of real science.
trade secrets, classified information, and anything deemed 'self research' or 'fringe science' or 'unpopular' is removed. lol.
obamasweapon.com drrobertduncan.com
it's basically like a DARPA project to brainwash the masses and hide information from the general populous.
Is there some factory somewhere pumping out non-custom rovers?
Great just what we need a new bunch of Lunatics editing Wikipedia. For the grammar or humor impaired Luna means moon. Lunatics could then mean moon people. Tim S.
Dude... ya gotta admit this is a pretty historic moment.
The problem with wikipedia is the biographies of anyone involved in gender, identity politics, or the media that touches these subjects are little more than huge wikipolitics battles between wikilawyers right up to Arbcom level over which of wikipedia rules minutae allow them to defame or smear the subject.
Wikipedia has really lost its way.
Isn't the more important story that "A group of science enthusiasts from Berlin, Germany, are planning to send their own custom-built rover to the Moon?" Or, if they take wikipedia to the moon and no one is there to read it?
why not partner with the University of Southampton http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/data-storage-technique-packs-360-tb-data-glass-disk-eternity/ and put all of the info they want on a crystal disk.